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(Paul Kates) 08/23/2013 9:42 AM EDT After the successes of last decade's Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, director Edgar Wright treats us to one last flavour in his hilarious "Cornetto" trilogy,The World's End, which also sees Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reuniting with Wright for the third time.The World's End opens with Gary King (Pegg), a fortysomething s... Read More |
 
(Roger Longenbach) 08/16/2013 3:46 PM EDT Whenever you have a sequel to an extremely well done movie that could be a one and done story, you run the risk of ruining the first movie with a poorly executed follow-up. That was a concern of mine, especially since Matthew Vaughn (the director of the original Kick-Ass, and X-Men First Class) was turning over the reins to Jeffrey Wadl... Read More |
(Chris Rebholz) 08/15/2013 3:32 PM EDT The first, some would argue best Muppets movie could have easily been the last. On-set tensions between director James Frawley and producer Jim Henson could have spilled over into the film. Henson's hand-stitched felt puppets could have failed to make the transition from the cozy confines of a television room to the revealing expanse of the big... Read More |
(John Delia) 08/08/2013 9:22 PM EDT A very dramatic Lovelace hits theaters this weekend and Amanda Seyfried puts on an incredibly convincing show as the porn star. The biopic takes a close look at the woman who got her start in the industry and became a household word, although whispered at the time. Not the average fare, the film tells all with the fine acting of Seyfrie... Read More |
(John Delia) 08/08/2013 1:48 PM EDT Outer space never looked so good in the exciting sci-fi adventure Elysium now in theaters. Well acted, designed and filmed, the movie gets right in the meat of the story and puts the viewers right in the action. Fast moving and exciting the film moves close to the front runners for my choice for best action films for 2013.The film takes... Read More |
 
(John Delia) 08/07/2013 3:30 PM EDT Cramming in a lot of sight gags, silly situations and comic set-ups We're The Millers tries for comedy of the year. Although it does have its good points and they are many, the road film may be a little too formulaic riding on the coattails of the resent Identity Thief, Hangover 3 and if you add the classic Vacation. Not that I didn't e... Read More |
(John Delia) 08/06/2013 9:27 AM EDT One of the best street action films of the 1980's Quicksilver has finally come to Blu-ray, but as far as quality of presentation it may be a bit too late. The movie was released in 1986 and filled the big screen with excitement and high energy. The bicycle riding scenes are spectacular and the story intriguing. I recommend the film ... Read More |
(Chris Rebholz) 08/05/2013 3:28 PM EDT Woody Allen famously said, "The heart wants what the heart wants," but what we often forget is that everything we attribute to the "heart" is actually a product of the brain—its twisting neural pathways, its reserves of memory, its manufactured construction of the self. And the brain can easily be fooled or otherwise manip... Read More |
 
(Chris Rebholz) 08/05/2013 11:02 AM EDT Who'd've thought we'd see the day when the once-great Francis Ford Coppola, the director who brought us The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, would be reduced to releasing a cringe-worthy straight-to-video horror movie? Twixt was born out of a Poe-like, particularly melancholy dream the filmmaker had a few years ago after a drunken night in... Read More |
(Chris Rebholz) 08/05/2013 10:49 AM EDT "Oblivion" is sci-fi entertainment that recalls genre pictures from the 1980s and ‘70s, where character and spectacle were more evenly matched. It's a strikingly designed and photographed effort that indulges only a handful of blockbuster bonanza moments, more attentive to its exploration of identity and paranoia, almost old fas... Read More |