Hollywood loves making films about WWII and to their credit they produced some great ones. In my opinion, Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line were the last great films about this war. And even though I loved Inglorious Basterds, I don’t count it as true WWII film, if you saw it then you …
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Counting Down to Gone Girl – Ranking David Fincher’s Films
As part of countdown to Gone Girl that's out on October 3, and part Birthday tribute to David Fincher (he turned 52 in Sept. 28), I asked my pal Ted S. who's a longtime admirer of the director to rank nine of his films since Alien 3 in 1992. David Fincher is one of the few elite A-list …
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The Flix List: Five Movies Suffering From Identity Crisis
Many filmmakers tried to mix several genres in one film, sometime it works nicely, i.e. Captain America: The Winter Soldier which is a superhero movie mixed with Cold War-era espionage intrigue. But most of the time, it turns out to be a disaster. Just look at Cowboys & Aliens, mixing Sci-fi with Westerns sounds like …
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LCR’s Recast-Athon – Recasting characters of 2013 Films
Jack from Lights Camera Reaction recently invited fellow bloggers to participate in ‘Recast-athon’, where we'd recast characters of 2013 that we either hated or liked, but think that the role(s) could have been done better by another actor. The rule is to pick a minimum of three performances and explain the reasons. So here are …
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FlixChatter Review: 12 Years A Slave (2013)
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. I saw this film two months ago and it was an early screening at 11 in the morning. I made the mistake of going back to work after this, as I was so shaken …
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Weekend Viewing Roundup and World War Z review
Hello all, hope you have a great weekend. Today is the Autumnal Equinox, that is the first day of Fall! I'm sooo lovin' the crisp, cool air of Autumn! 😀 So did you hit the theaters this weekend? Perhaps you went to see PRISONERS, billed as the first adult drama of the Fall season. If …
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New Releases Double Reviews: World War Z & White House Down
WORLD WAR Z Based on a popular novel by Max Brooks, this big budgeted film was plagued with troubled production and ran well over its original budget, reportedly somewhere around $170-200 mil (the original budget was set around $150 mil). The film was scheduled to open last December but because of rewrites and reshoots of …
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