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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Half Assed ...
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"Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is the sixth movie in Harry Potter film series. Too dependent on previous films or expecting the audience to have read the books, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince fails to develop into a complete movie. Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is whisked away by his professor and fellow wizard Dumbledore (Michael Gambon )to meet with Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent) to encourage him to return to his professorship at Hogwarts School. Harry and Dumbledore continue to attempt to find a way to defeat Lord Voldemort and prevent him from returning to the living world. Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) dance around their feelings for each other and engage in typical teenage romance melodrama. Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) sneaks around, waving his wand at bookcases in dark storage rooms, spiraling down an emotional whirlpool. As an added bonus for the audience, the director and writers have left bonus loose ends for the audi ... " [More]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Shoddy Production and Smoking H ...
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Duplicity

Dull-plicity
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Watchmen

Cinema Constipated
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Role Models

Cinematic Baklava
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"Danny and Wheeler aren’t Role Models, but they are motivated. I wanted so badly to hate Role Models for the shallow jokes, but its sweet story won me over. Wheeler (Sean William Scott), a slacker womanizer and Danny (Paul Rudd) a self absorbed Debbie Downer, work together for an energy drink company. One day, Danny has a mental breakdown and commits an act so heinous, the best their lawyer, Beth (Elizabeth Banks) could do was for both to be sentenced to 150 hours of community service at the judge’s favorite charity, Sturdy Wings. Danny is assigned to Augie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), a reclusive geek who aspires to greatness. Wheeler is assigned to Ronnie (Bobb’e J. Thompson), a little kid with a big dirty mouth. Pre-adolescent jokes about sex permeate Role Models. There is no shortage of gay, almost gay, and gay animal jokes. You can’t go ten minutes without tripping over a homosexual speed bump. Heterosexual coitis jokes come almost as often, es ... " [More]

Role Models

Cinematic Baklava
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Morning Light

The slip and slide of cinema
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The Brothers Bloom

Brothers Bloom is the Archer Fi ...
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Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder Blows Up The Screen
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"Tropic Thunder is a movie about making a movie by not making a movie. It is a wild romp through joke-infested jungles that occasionally steps on a comedy land mine. Director Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan) assembles a star studded cast of actors to grace his war movie. Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) is the group’s action star, Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black) is the drug addicted comedian, Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.) is the award-winning Australian actor, Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson) is the rabble’s rapper-turned-actor and rounding out the group is the geek Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel). During filming the actors can’t work together, can’t get their lines out, and can’t be directed at all. Facing pressure from the financial backer of the movie, Cockburn listens to Four Leaf Tayback (Nick Nolte), the author of the book the movie is based on, and sends the group out into the jungle with no way out. Instead of shooting a war flick gorilla style, they ... " [More]

Man on Wire

Man on Wire Should Hang By One
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"Man on Wire is a documentary of a man who could either be called brave or obscenely stupid, depending on your perspective; this man walked on a wire between the Twin Towers. Man on Wire is a beautiful movie about a repulsive personality. French tight rope walker Philippe Petit sees the building of the twin towers as a challenge. A challenge of his abilities, a challenge of the loyalties of those around him and a challenge of his own will. Unconcerned with anyone but himself, Philippe Petit chugs along, trying to make his way up the towers and across them. In smaller acts of defiance, he walked across several important structures all over the world. His behavior captured the attention of the people who saw them and damaged the relationships with those people he involved in his schemes. Man on Wire’s cinematography glistens. There are times during Man on Wire that took me out of the moment because of its beauty. The director, James Marsh, and cinematographer, Igor Martin ... " [More]

Man on Wire

Man on Wire Should Hang By One
By laraemeadows in laraemeadows Blog
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"Man on Wire is a documentary of a man who could either be called brave or obscenely stupid, depending on your perspective; this man walked on a wire between the Twin Towers. Man on Wire is a beautiful movie about a repulsive personality. French tight rope walker Jean-Louis Blondeau sees the building of the twin towers as a challenge. A challenge of his abilities, a challenge of the loyalties of those around him and a challenge of his own will. Unconcerned with anyone but himself, Jean-Louis Blondeau chugs along, trying to make his way up the towers and across them. In smaller acts of defiance, he walked across several important structures all over the world. His behavior captured the attention of the people who saw them and damaged the relationships with those people he involved in his schemes. Man on Wire’s cinematography glistens. There are times during Man on Wire that took me out of the moment because of its beauty. The director, James Marsh, and cinematographer, I ... " [More]

The Pineapple Express

Pineapple Express Almost Sparkles
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"Pineapple Express is a comedy that could best be defined as the styles of Jackie Chan, Steven Segal and Cheech and Chong. A slow start and cheap jokes dull the brilliant luster that sometimes sparkles in Pineapple Express. Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) is a process server who loves to get stoned. He gets his marijuana from Saul Silver (James Franco), a good natured pot dealer. Saul gets a shipment of special pot and sells it to Dale right before he serves a process to a rich drug lord, Ted Jones (Danny R. McBride). Just as he’s about to leave his car to serve the paperwork, he witnesses a murder performed by a female cop (Rosie Perez) and Mr. Jones. In his attempts to flee, Dale brings attention to himself. Through unusual investigative techniques Mr. Jones realizes Saul is Dale’s dealer. Dale and Saul have to flee to stay alive. Pineapple Express is, at times, hysterical, but writers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Judd Apatow couldn’t avoid throwing in cheap, ... " [More]