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The Chinese calendar says that 2003 is the year of the Ram, but the Hollywood calendar says it’s the year of the sequel.
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Watching zombie movies while in a drunken state at 3 AM is generally accepted practice. But watching zombie movies with subtitles is not. Yet somehow a few of us found this to be a good idea over the past weekend. well, not exactly…
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I hate this movie. No, wait, I don’t mean it like that. I mean, this movie is absolutely brilliant and engaging and entertaining and quite possibly the best film of the year. But I hate it. I hate it for making me so goddamn curious as to what kind of twisted genius could come up with something like this…
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If there’s one thing Alexander Payne does well, it’s to make things real. Damn real. America ain’t always pretty. Hollywood often tries to pretend it is, but it really isn’t. On the other hand, America ain’t always ugly. Hollywood often tries to pretend it is, but it really isn’t. In truth, there’s a fine line where things are just kind of real…
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You know, there’s been a lot of anticipation for Scorcese’s big historical drama here. This thing got delayed, put off, delayed again, and I was starting to think it was never gonna come out. Of course, it’s finally here…
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It’s a good thing that I sometimes compromise on my beliefs. Basically, without getting into it much, I kinda have a thing where I’m supposed to be protesting the films of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. Of course, that didn’t stop me from seeing Spielberg’s last four features theatrically, but I’m really not supposed to…
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Holy. Shit. That’s really it in a nutshell, folks. After seeing FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING a year ago, I was, like many others, just absolutely dying to get to the next installment as soon as possible…
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The original tagline to the film that winds up atop our Retarded Christmas Top Ten is “A Tribute to the Original, Traditional, One-Hundred-Percent, Red-Blooded, Two-Fisted, All-American Christmas”…
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Most people, when recalling Christmas movies, tend to rattle off IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE as the one that immediately springs to mind. Not that there’s any problem with that…
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They say that in the world of “Star Trek”, there’s a rule of thumb when it comes to the movies: The even-numbered ones are way better than the odd-numbered ones. It looks like there’s a similar vibe going on with the “Vacation” franchise of films, except in the reverse…
