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Safe House – Housekeeping With A Vengeance!

Posted by   on February 10, 2012 · 0 comments

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(L to R) Rookie operative Matt Weston (RYAN REYNOLDS) tries to outwit legendary spy Tobin Frost (DENZEL WASHINGTON) in the action-thriller "Safe House".

After Green Lantern, it’s a pleasure to see Ryan Reynolds matching wits [and chops] with Denzel Washington – who seems to be joining Liam Neeson as a middle-aged action star – in a movie that is actually the kind of taut, suspenseful thriller that is as smart as it is violent.

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Grade: B+

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The Debt: Sometimes Haunting Spy Thriller Ushers In The Fall!

Posted by   on September 2, 2011 · 1 comment

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The Debt is a sometimes haunting fiction that starts out as a celebration of the publication of a book that chronicles an important moment in the history of Israel – the death of a Nazi war criminal known as the Surgeon of Birkenau.

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Grade: B

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Cowboys & Aliens is Exactly What It Says on the Tin – Nothing More; Nothing Less!

Posted by   on July 29, 2011 · 1 comment

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Movies don’t get more high concept than Cowboys & Aliens. Like Snakes on a Plane, Jon Favreau’s new film delivers precisely what it promises. Therein lies the problem.

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Grade: C-

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MOVIE REVIEW: Robin Hood – Too Long; Too Grim and Too Much!

Posted by   on May 14, 2010 · 1 comment

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I can’t even begin to chart the historical inaccuracies of Robin Hood [which are the only things that Ridley Scott’s bloated origin story has in common with those Robins who have gone before] which makes all of the film’s efforts to evoke a real time and place kind of pointless. So Robin Hood is working from a negative sum to start.

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MOVIE REVIEW: The Wolfman – Grim, Grey, Boring… BLOOD!

Posted by   on February 12, 2010

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After a couple postponements and a complete makeover in the editing room, The Wolfman finally reached screens this weekend. Not worth the wait.

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MOVIES: Taylor Lautner: Superhero Spy!

Posted by   on February 5, 2010

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The Hollywood Reporter reports that Taylor Lautner has snagged the lead in Universal’s projected tentpole, Stretch Armstrong – based on the Hasbro action figure.

The plot revolves around a spy who happens upon a stretching formula and takes it. Now he has to learn how to deal with the consequences of this rash action. The film is being developed by Universal and Imagine, for shooting in 3D. As a result, the film’s release date has been pushed back from May 15, 2011 to some time in 2012.

Universal co-chairman Donna Langley was quoted as saying, ““In the past two years, Taylor has emerged as a real star at the global box office. He brings the perfect balance of energy and athleticism to the role of an unlikely super hero with a fantastic super power.”

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MOVIE REVIEW: The Fourth Kind – Cynical, Manipulative Tripe!

Posted by   on November 8, 2009 · 1 comment

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Everything that the ultra-low budget did right, The Fourth Kind gets wrong. The mawkish, amateurish Paranormal Activity felt more real by doing very little, but timing it well and giving us characters we could care about – even if they weren’t the brightest bulbs on the chandelier.

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The Fourth Kind purports to be a combination of genuine archival footage and re-enactments of the events that ruined Alaskan psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler’s life and stole her daughter. It’s not spoiling anything to say that these events involve alien abductions. In the “re-enactments,” Tyler is played by Milla Jovovich and, from the start, she shows little in the way of nuance. She’s either almost whispering, or wailing. She’s shown a much wider range in the mediocre, but entertaining Resident Evil films than she shows here.

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