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The Alamo (1960)

Reviewed on Feb 2, 2015

A dramatic historical story, seemingly faithful to the historical accounts. Wayne’s not bad. Widmark looks just like Heston. Not surprising that Wayne wanted Heston for one of the roles.

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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)

Reviewed on Feb 2, 2015

An imitation of Twilight Zone: The Movie. Pretty crappy but some familiar faces and decent effects. I particularly enjoyed the cat crawling into a human body.

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Music porn. Anyone who loves music will love this movie. Beautifully edited and shot, with a warm, golden glow cascading over every scene. Simmons plays a truly hateful authoritarian whose intensity rivals R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket. And he’s good at it. Oscar material. Teller plays a pretty…

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Birdman (2014)

Reviewed on Jan 27, 2015

With its long takes and non-stop dialogue, Birdman takes inspiration from Mike Nichols and The Player. There’s some really clever editing and some fancy camera movements in there, but Iñárritu takes it all one step further with an eccentric story and eccentric characters and an eccentric star. Some might give…

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Fury (2014)

Reviewed on Jan 19, 2015

Not really much to the story. These guys are in a tank and need to kill Germans. They blow shit up and people die. Is that it? And whose journey is this? Don’s or Norman’s? Neither of their stories are compelling enough, and there’s a bit of dramatic awkwardness that…

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Gone Girl (2014)

Reviewed on Jan 16, 2015

A good mindfuck whodunnit, feels a bit like a Hitchcock classic, if not a little long and drawn out. I know it was adapted from a book, but I feel like it could have been an hour shorter. But the film is as manipulative as its characters. It pulls a…

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Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey (2014)

Reviewed on Jan 11, 2015

A noble effort at updating the series, an epic endeavor by Seth MacFarlane. But I just have to compare, and it’s not as good as Sagan’s original series. The segments are a bit disorganized and disconnected, especially in the early episodes. Sagan was better at packaging things up into relevant…

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Divergent (2014)

Reviewed on Jan 8, 2015

Appeals to the Hunger Games crowd. Forced adventure, a hint of magic, familiar actors playing shallow caricatures. Woodley isn’t bad, but I think we’ll see better from her down the road.

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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Reviewed on Jan 3, 2015

Interesting premise, mixing the “redo” time travel concept of Groundhog Day and About Time with science fiction. Limon is quality. Hate Cruise if you want, but he can act. His performance is great, except for how he says “literally”. Blunt is at her foxiest. Paxton acts for a change. The…

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