The sixth installment of the series, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince is simultaneously the best and the least satisfying of the films to date. The story has been pared down to the barest of bones and almost nothing of note happens. The evil Voldemort appears only in flashback, and impossibly chaste teenage [...]

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There’s countless ways for movies to be bad, but Michael Mann’s Public Enemies embodies one of the few unforgiveable sins of cinema – complete disdain for the audience. I can only honestly review the first hour of it, because that was how long I lasted before walking out in a haze of boredom.

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Springtime is the season of renewal. Like all slumbering beasts, eventually a taste for blood will drive them back into the light of day, and Good Is The New Bad is no different.  After a winter of hibernation, perhaps we are back – renewed, refreshed, and with a recharged agenda.
For the record, the reasons for [...]

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Because it’s the next film from the Rian Johnson, the writer/director of Brick.
A very cool website for the film, created by the director and not the studio, has gone live here.
Brick was a hard-boiled noir detective story transplanted to an Orange County high school, and populated with burned-out teenagers. The incongruities work beautifully, and the [...]

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By: Aaron Shay
Sometimes, when one digs through the dung pile long enough, a nugget of gold can be found.  This is the only way to describe the experience of watching Hamlet 2.
The story: Failed actor Dana Marschz (Steve Coogan) has taken up the job of a stereotypical drama teacher in Tucson, [...]

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The Los Angeles Times posted pieces from Kenneth Turan and Charles McNulty, their stud film and theater critics, respectively. It’s part of an “ongoing series” (which is newspaper-ese for “slow news day”), but the conceit is great.
Each critic was asked if there was a review that they regretted writing. The question itself is the job-interview [...]

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Oliver Stone is at it again. After taking a run at the JFK assassination and Nixon, he’s wading back into presidential politics with a fast-tracked production of a film about George W. Bush.

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Season twelve of South Park continues to hit high notes with “Canada On Strike!”

This is what South Park does best — lining up the confluence of power and self-righteousness and gleefully hanging it with its own rope. Trey Parker and Matt Stone despise the arrogance of authority and privilege. One of the most [...]

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