Bond 50 on Blu-Ray This 50th-anniversary collection comes with 22 of the 23 major Bond films that will keep you “shaken, not stirred.” Relive the glory days of suave Sean Connery and Roger Moore while feeling lustful for Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder and Jane Seymour as Solitaire. Including over 120 hours of bonus features, […]
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Legends Revised
Rise of the Guardians fills
the theater with holiday bliss
Remember the nights when you waited in your bed for the Tooth Fairy to bring you money for your tiny tooth or on the couch by the Christmas tree for Santa Claus to give you awesome presents after stuffing his belly full of cookies and milk. Ah, to be a kid again. Those memories are […]
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Super Text – Killing Them Softly
Killing Them Softly hammers its thematic ideas into the ground
Killing Them Softly—the new crime caper thriller from writer/director Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford)—is set in 2008, during the height of the panic over the U.S. financial collapse and the run-up to Barack Obama’s election. I mention this because you might miss that crucial bit of subtext if […]
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Hitting the Mark
Killing Them Softly's leading men are some of the best actors in the business
The four lead actors in Killing Them Softly are some of the strongest actors working today. Each one has the ability to inhabit the character and go beyond our expectations. Here is a list of must see flicks by these actors and what they played in their newest movie. Brad Pitt: The charismatic talkative hit […]
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The Best Pi of the Holidays
Ang Lee film sizzles with a lasting bite of survival
If you were stranded on a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with minimal supplies and an unlikely adversary, would you be able to survive?
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All of These Things Are Not Like the Others
The eclectic world of Ang Lee movies
Life of Pi Director Ang Lee hasn’t really racked up a lot of movies like some directors, but what he lacks in quantity he makes up for in quality. He has a meticulous style that’s fairly invisible as the movies seem to materialize organically in an original arty and stylistic way. This is mainly due […]
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Zeroing In
Kung fu flick at Tin Pan hits the mark
Fusing a 16th century kung fu style and innovative video game techniques together, the eye-popping film known as Tai Chi Zero, is blowing away audiences everywhere.
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Twilight Star Bright
Braving the phenomenon
Thank God it’s over. No more taking off of shirts. No more glittering. No more teen fans swooning over vampires.
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The Art of the Possible
Lincoln crafts an epic out of the pursuit of pragmatic politics.
“Compromise … or you risk it all,” the President of the United States warns an ideologically rigid member of his own party—and no, you haven’t just walked into a Campaign 2012 reality show. The setting is January 1865 in Steven Spielberg’s grandly intimate Lincoln, and it’s Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis) trying to shore up support […]
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Across The Great Divide
The Civil War told through film
Shenandoah (1965) A saga depicting the impact on families divided by the nation’s split. Touching and propelled by Jimmie Stewart’s great performance as a Virginia farmer during the war. He doesn’t believe in the fight or care to have anything to do with it. Problem is, the Shenandoah Valley, where his farm lies, is in […]
