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I Feel the Music in You
Back in 2007, Irish TV writer John Carney made his first film, a slender little romance called Once that was mostly intended to showcase...
Gym Class Villain
If you saw last year’s School for Scoundrels and wished that it had been funnier, you should know that Mr. Woodcock answers your prayers.
It...
The Prom: High School Musical
When Ryan Murphy was announced as the director of a filmed version of a recent Broadway musical, I and other watchers of his TV...
This Means War: Bad Threesome
These days, romantic comedies often come packaged with gunfire, explosions, and car chases because filmmakers and studios think that’s the only way to make...
Oh, What a Biutiful Mess
In December, the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association named Biutiful the best foreign language film of 2010. Last week, the movie picked up Oscar...
They Call Me Warrior
The powers that be are marketing Warrior as a mixed-martial arts movie, but it’s not really about MMA any more than The Social Network...
The Illusionist: Scots Oui, Oui
Seven years ago, Sylvain Chomet captured the world’s attention with his animated feature film debut The Triplets of Belleville. At the time, many critics...
More Thoughts on “The Hunger Games”
I read all three of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games novels in the space of a week last year, so you won’t be surprised to...
Oh God, mother! Blood! Blood!
My movie reviews have been in hibernation for a couple of weeks, but mother! is well worth coming out of it for. After all,...
Jack of Diamonds
OK, so Ocean’s Twelve came out two and a half years ago, and a lot of ticket-buyers felt as if the thieves on the...
