Anyone who thinks Michael Bay makes the biggest, loudest movies on Earth should watch the new Hong Kong film “The Viral Factor,” which may not have had the budget for giant Transformers, but nonetheless puts Bay to shame in terms of the amount of sustained action. The movie lacks a single ounce of subtlety or […]
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“I just want more of life” is how filmmaker Mark Weixler responds when asked by an interview subject why he has chosen to make the documentary “How to Live Forever,” a look at several folks who have defied normal life expectancy and others working to extend said expectancy even further. While this is a plenty
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In the age of viral Internet marketing and 30-second TV spots, audience appraisals that a film “didn’t live up to expectations” usually imply that said film wasn’t as good as its advertising campaign. But what about the expectations established within the film itself? It’s hard not to watch the opening scenes of “The Hunter” with
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There are five new options for home viewing this week. We’ve got you covered… Coriolanus, actor Ralph Fiennes’ directorial debut, is a post-modern treatment of Shakespeare, but those hoping for the exuberance of Baz Lurhman’s Romeo + Juliet had best stay far away. Here, Fiennes and writer John Logan transplant the Bard of Avon’s dialogue–largely
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On tap this week: five new home viewing options. Here are our capsule reviews… Certified Copy was the cinephile’s head-scratcher of 2011, a beautiful film about the afternoon spent between a man (opera singer William Shimell) and a woman (the incomparable Juliette Binoche). What first appears to be a cerebral character piece along the lines
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There are a lot of new home viewing options available this week, but only one of them (The Grey) is particularly good. Unless you happen to like chick-flicks, in which case Katherine Heigl’s One for the Money is also a solid bet. Here’s our full round-up… Glenn Close had reportedly been shilling Albert Nobbs around
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It’s good to know that the FBI, ICE, and MPAA are working diligently to prevent the movie industry from losing billions of dollars of revenue to piracy through entirely practical, pragmatic means, isn’t it? I’ll tell you, I have long wanted to bootleg a movie, but every time I come close to hitting the record button on
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This week’s new home viewing options aren’t worth watching and are even less worth writing about, but because I am your humble servant, I will begrudgingly chime in with a few quick thoughts… Underworld: Awakening is the fourth installment in the series that cares more about monochromatic shades of blue than distinct characters or narrative
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New selections available for home viewing this week: Haywire is Steven Soderbergh’s star-studded experiment in genre filmmaking, a modest action film that struggles with its own low aim. It’s a curious exercise seeing a prolific auteur approach a task that he likely thinks is beneath him, resulting in a work that’s appealing and exciting at
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Fans of Disney’s legendary animated films Beauty and the Beast and Bambi have one final weekend to purchase Blu-Ray/DVD copies for their collections before both become unavailable for an indefinite period of time. As of April 30, production will cease on the current “Diamond Edition” combo packs of both films. They are the latest casualties of the
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