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Bernie (PG-13) Based on a real-life murder case, Richard Linklater’s film stars Jack Black as a small-town Texas mortician who kills a wealthy widow...
Avengers: Hammer and SHIELD
Joss Whedon looks poised to become the king of American pop culture, and I don’t mind it one bit. Having already established himself as...
Five Years Too Long?
A few years ago, the films associated with Judd Apatow –– a handful he wrote and directed himself and several others he produced ––...
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The Raven (R) John Cusack stars in this thriller as Edgar Allan Poe, who’s called on to help solve a string of murders in...
Sea The Pirates!
Like Disney-Pixar, the folks at Aardman know family-friendly comedy. The British stop-action animation company won an Oscar in 2005 for Wallace & Gromit: The...
Oscar Worthy?
When two British vets of nature documentaries, one of whom was the executive producer on the landmark films The Blue Planet and Planet Earth,...
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Marley (PG-13) Not a sequel to Marley & Me, this documentary by Kevin Macdonald (Touching the Void) profiles the life and music of Bob...
Bully for You
This review is dedicated to my seventh-grade English teacher, who told her class one day that bullied students deserved no pity because they were...
Think Like a Man: Harvey’s Rules
Where are the good movies about African-Americans? The answer is far longer than this space will allow for, but one major reason is that...
More Thoughts on “The Cabin in the Woods” (With Spoilers)
I was planning to lead off this blog post with a definition of "Pirandellian device," but I found that there's not a whole lot...
