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Total Recall (2012)
Arnold’s not back, he was never invited and for good reason. Total Recall is everything a good sci-fi action thriller should be and perhaps it will do better in time, after the nuclear fallout has...
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Commentary on Movies, History and Perspective
What we look for most often when we sit down at the movies is a prevailing sense of having gone somewhere and experienced something. We're looking for fulfillment or some substitute for it, call them...
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At The Movies
At the movies, that’s when I realize it’s happened again, I let my trusty guards down as soon as the fade in – that I've drowned in possibility at another lost chance at greatness that's not even close...
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Brave (2012)
"Brave" is about knowing yourself in everything you perceive as different and the realization that the heart is as delicate as it is resilient to the wounding of experience - what the soul already...
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Female Directors - Above and beyond a call to duty
Above the Line:Practical Movie Reviews takes a moment before this year's 85th Academy Awards Show to highlight the accomplishments of women in the entertainment industry that are frequently...
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Filmmaker and Film Critic makes Movie Blogger Efforts
Writing about movies is about as close to making them as I can get right now and I think it puts me in a unique position to share my thoughts as a bridge for others to fall in love with the how as much...
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Why Write About The Movies We Hate
Apparently I'm not alone. We hate our movies and love them for all sorts of reasons. People hate theaters and theater people, they hate other movie goers and especially critics; that goes for bloggers...
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Lady Gaga’s Applause: Sanzen the Master Rings the Bell
When I staggered over the Kewpie Doll of Pop's latest wizdom I was instantly compelled to object, no matter how much I might fall victim to her sticky web of sensationalism. I don't know if a pop...
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Game of Thrones
Prepare yourself for smart and articulate tones, a broad and artful universe taken masterfully from an adaptation that respectfully brings the source material to the screen. Faithful to followers and...
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Stand Up for Pain in the Oblivion of Pines
I watch so many movies I often get swept up in the effort to write about all of them in an effective and coherent way. Monday to Wednesday and I'm already behind, by Friday I'll be right back here...
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Twixt (2011)
“Twixt” is about dead-end roads and the distracted ambition of the travelers we find there in a makeshift world about middle grounds between dreams and the indecision of lost souls. We are invitees to...
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Concussion (2013)
Writer-Director Stacie Passon’s 2013 film “Concussion” masterfully crafts the complexity of inward glances to produce a quality of deafening silence that fills the screen with the unconveyable voracity...
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The Triumphant Returns And Spectacular Failures of Blogging in Hollywoodland
Blogging for the people that read blogs about people retiring from the spotlight for ten minutes and then in a desperate thirst for one more headline slipping back as though they never quit at all is...
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Gravity (2013)
Despite the overwhelming positivism, both in reviews and ratings and award show gold, "Gravity" suffers from the same nausea ad infinitum that often relegates it to little more than a snappily dressed...
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Movie Review Blogging is about Momentum (2014)
Why do we watch films at all if not to escape, sometimes gingerly, almost all together brazenly into places familiar and not-so familiar to our own for minutes if not hours at a time of peaceful...
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What Happened To The Reality In Reality Television?
It is this planetary hold on the countless that tells us all that we need to know - there is no reality in reality television. We have no electron beam scanners or superheated charged gas combustion...
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