Welcome to May, everybody. For having endured a pretty cold and snowy Winter, I'm certainly glad Spring has arrived and Summer is upon us! I was fortunate enough to watch not one but two excellent sci-fi movies this weekend, a genre I like especially if it's the thought-provoking kind. And both Never Let Me Go …
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My reviews of movies/TV/trailers
Weekend Roundup: HANNA review
I finally venture out into the theater after about a month of a lot of home cinema viewing. All the great reviews on HANNA got me really curious to check it out on opening weekend. It wasn't powerful enough to defeat HOP in the box office, but managed to finish second with $12.4 million, which …
Rental Picks: Miller’s Crossing and Road to Perdition
I finally got around to seeing Miller's Crossing this past weekend, but instead of my usual Weekend Roundup, I decided to review another gangster movie that I've been wanting to do for quite a while. Both of these films are set in the Prohibition era of the early 30s, starring two laconic anti-heroes. Interestingly, both …
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Everyone’s a Critic: Reviews of Coriolanus (2011) and Laura (1944)
Welcome to another edition of Everyone's a Critic! Today we've got two special reviews from two different genres, one is a Shakespearean modern adaptation, straight from its BERLINALE premiere (thank you Vanessa, you lucky gal!) and the other an Otto Preminger’s acclaimed classic noir (Preminger was nominated for Best Director Oscar for this film). In …
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Ross vs Ross’ Best Picture Fight Club is Up – The King Speech Review
Counting down to the Oscar this coming Sunday, and the boys from rossvross.com have gone a little Oscar crazy this week. A couple of weeks ago, Ross McG rounded up nine other bloggers (including his partner in crime Ross McD) for a ten-way Best Picture Oscar battle. Because there are so many movies - and because it …
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EVERYONE’S A CRITIC: Life as We Know It, Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Thin Red Line
It's been almost a year since I had an Everyone's a Critic post! I shall try to have this a bit more regular, perhaps more of a quarterly feature on this blog. Special thanks to Mike Beery (check out Mike's contributor page), my Twi-mom friend Marianne Lemire, and FC's frequent guest blogger Ted S. for …
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Weekend Viewing Roundup: House of Flying Daggers, Legend of the Guardians
It's kind of an uneventful weekend for me... it's just another super cold January day. And when I say cold, I mean face-numbing, ears-hurtin', still-freezing-my-@$$-off-despite-wearing-two-thick-layer-under-my-pants type of subzero temp. It's kinda depressing when someone said on the way home from work that "hey, it's actually 20 degrees 'warmer' than this morning" and it's barely 3 …
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