Apr13

Cabin in the Woods

by Randy Ray on April 13th, 2012 at 6:55 pm
Posted In: Horror
Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon have made as clever and as intelligently written a horror movie as you're likely to see this year. The trailer for Cabin in the Woods hinted that this was more than just your standard college kids go off into the country and get themselves killed by psychos, hillbillies, ...
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Sep30

What’s Your Number?

by Roxanne Downer on September 30th, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Posted In: Comedy, Romance
The key to enjoying What’s Your Number?, a new romantic comedy starring the effervescent Anna Faris, is managed expectations. If you go in expecting the raunchy, subversive humor and girl-power love that you got from this summer’s Bridesmaids, you'll be disappointed. But this girl-meets-20 boys comedy ...
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Sep23

Moneyball

by Roxanne Downer on September 23rd, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Posted In: Drama, Sports
Featuring more calculators than curve balls, Moneyball is not your typical baseball movie. Then again, the film tells the story of the 2002 Oakland A’s, and they were hardly a typical baseball team. An adaptation of Michael Lewis’ 2003 book, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, the film ...
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Sep10

Contagion

by Roxanne Downer on September 10th, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Posted In: Thriller
Steven Soderbergh's Contagion is billed as a medical thriller. Well, that's half-right. This procedural medical film about the ultra-fast spread of an ultra-deadly disease, called MV-1, is about as thrilling as watching cells multiply. It opens on a shot of Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow), already ...
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Sep03

Apollo 18

by Roxanne Downer on September 3rd, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Posted In: Horror, Science Fiction
By now, the basic style conceit of Apollo 18 is familiar to most moviegoers. Like The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity before it, the film is presented as “found footage” of a real-life horror. This time around, the mock-doc takes us to the moon, specifically a secret 12th moon landing. ...
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