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Lockout
Blake Ginithan | August 2, 2012Lockout is full of every action movie cliché in the book. The film involves a lot of gunplay...
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The Amazing Spider-Man
Brett Riss | July 26, 2012Ten years ago Hollywood graced the world with their Tobey Maguire led rendition of Spider-Man which helped pave...
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The Dark Knight Rises
Blake Ginithan | July 20, 2012Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy comes to a close with The Dark Knight Rises and if anything the series...
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Stagecoach
Patrick Gross | July 3, 2012Stagecoach is an old-school movie in every sense of the word. The characters are stripped down, traditional, Western...
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Prometheus
Patrick Gross | June 13, 2012Prometheus is an ambitious, entertaining film from Ridley Scott that ultimately falls flat due to an overextended plot...
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Patrick Gross | June 6, 2012The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a very complex Western that pits a traditional gun-slinging setting with...
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The Grey
Blake Ginithan | May 21, 2012Joe Carnahan’s The Grey is an exhausting film. I mean that in a good way. This film involves...
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Sleepless Night
Blake Ginithan | May 10, 2012When I was 11 or 12 the local YMCA started hosting these overnight “lock-ins” where kids could go...
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Haywire
Blake Ginithan | May 9, 2012Haywire is the new icy cold globe-trotting film from veteran director Steven Soderbergh. It’s a lean and mean...
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The Raid
C.J. Prince | April 24, 2012The Raid: Redemption could be seen as a slaughterhouse more than an action movie. Calling the plot and...
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Lady Vengeance
Dustin Jansick | November 2, 2011Chan-wook Parks‘s Lady Vengeance is the third and last installment of the “Vengeance Trilogy”, which are all linked...
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Super 8
Dustin Jansick | October 25, 2011Super 8 is a summer blockbuster film by director J.J. Abrams that contains obvious hints of Spielberg throughout....
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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Dustin Jansick | August 15, 2011Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is Park Chan-wook’s first installment of his “Vengeance Trilogy”, followed by the near masterpiece...
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City of God
Dustin Jansick | July 12, 2011Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles created possibly the most compelling foreign crime drama to date with City of God....
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Oldboy
Dustin Jansick | June 9, 2011Oldboy is a powerful Korean film that is as mesmerizing as it is disturbing. It is one that...