Movie Reviews

Alice in Wonderland

Saturday, March 6th, 2010 Movie Reviews
Tim Burton takes a stab at Lewis Carroll’s timeless tale of a young girl (Mia Wasikowska) lost within a fantasyland with this 3-D production of Alice in Wonderland. The Lion King’s Linda Woolverton provides the script, with Hollywood heavyweights Richard Zanuck and Joe Roth heading up the production team. Burton veteran collaborator Johnny Depp co-…
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Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast)

The Crazies

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 Movie Reviews
Sahara director Breck Eisner teams with screenwriters Ray Wright (Pulse) and Scott Kosar (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) to give George A. Romero’s underrated 1973 shocker a shiny new makeover in this update starring Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell. Perform a Google search on “small-town America,” and eventually you’ll stumble across Ogden Marsh,…
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Rating: 3.0/5 (1 vote cast)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Movie Reviews
The son of Poseidon travels the Earth with the hopes of quelling a battle of the gods in this adaptation of the first book in Rick Riordan’s best-selling children’s book series. Veteran director Chris Columbus (Home Alone, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) directs from his own script with co-writer Craig Titley. 3:10 to Yuma’s Logan Lerman top…
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Rating: 3.0/5 (1 vote cast)

Shutter Island

Saturday, February 20th, 2010 Movie Reviews
Mark Ruffalo and Leonardo DiCaprio team up as a pair of U.S. Marshals who travel to a secluded island off the coast of Massachusetts to search for an escaped mental patient, uncovering a web of deception along the way as they battle the forces of nature and a prison riot in this Martin Scorsese-helmed period picture. Laeta Kalogridis adapts Dennis …
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Rating: 4.0/5 (1 vote cast)

The Wolfman

Sunday, February 14th, 2010 Movie Reviews
Universal Studios resurrects the classic lycanthrope with this tale of an American who experiences an unsettling transformation after returning to his ancestral home in Victorian-era Great Britain and being attacked by a rampaging werewolf. His brother having recently vanished without a trace, haunted nobleman Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) ret…
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Rating: 2.0/5 (1 vote cast)

Valentine’s Day

Sunday, February 14th, 2010 Movie Reviews
Veteran director Garry Marshall helms this ensemble comedy featuring multiple overlapping storylines set during a Valentine’s Day in L.A. Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Shirley MacLaine, Ashton Kutcher, and Topher Grace topline the cast. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide
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Rating: 2.0/5 (1 vote cast)

From Paris With Love

Sunday, February 7th, 2010 Movie Reviews
John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers star in the spy thriller From Paris With Love for District B13′s helmer Pierre Morel and EuropaCorp. The Luc Besson/Adi Hasak-penned tale revolves around the entwining paths of an American spy and an embassy worker during a tumultuous time in Paris. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide
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Rating: 2.0/5 (1 vote cast)

Dear John

Friday, February 5th, 2010 Movie Reviews
Director Lasse Hallström and screenwriter Jamie Linden collaborate to adapt author Nicholas Sparks’ novel about a young soldier who falls for an idealistic college girl. Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) was on spring break when she first met John Tyree (Channing Tatum), who was home on temporary leave. For the smitten soldier it was practically lo…
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Rating: 4.0/5 (1 vote cast)

When in Rome

Saturday, January 30th, 2010 Movie Reviews
Disillusioned with romance during her whirlwind trip to Rome, an ambitious New Yorker defiantly swipes a few magic coins from a “foolish” wishing fountain, inadvertently igniting the passions of a motley crew of suitors as she’s pursued by a handsome reporter with charm to spare. Beth (Kristen Bell) is at a point in her life where love seems like a…
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Rating: 2.0/5 (1 vote cast)

Edge of Darkness

Saturday, January 30th, 2010 Movie Reviews
Casino Royale’s Martin Campbell returns to familiar territory with this adaptation of his own 1985 BBC miniseries — a mystery starring Mel Gibson as a detective looking into his political-activist daughter’s death and uncovering layers of governmental conspiracies in the process. William Monahan (The Departed) provides the screenplay for the GK Fi…
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Rating: 3.0/5 (1 vote cast)

The Book of Eli

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 Movie Reviews
In a post-apocalyptic America where the once-picturesque countryside has become a desolate and violent wasteland, one man (Denzel Washington) fights to protect that sacred tome that could hold the key to the survival of the human race in this futuristic thriller from filmmaking duo Albert and Allen Hughes (From Hell and Dead Presidents). Gary Oldma…
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Rating: 4.0/5 (1 vote cast)

Extraordinary Measures

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 Movie Reviews
Inspired by an incredible true story, the CBS Films docudrama portrays one father’s desperate quest to save his children from succumbing to a rare, life threatening genetic disorder. Working class father John Crowley (Brendan Fraser) is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children Megan and Patrick are diagnosed with P…
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Rating: 4.0/5 (1 vote cast)

Daybreakers

Friday, January 8th, 2010 Movie Reviews
Fresh off the success of their inventive take on the zombie genre, Undead masterminds Michael and Peter Spierig direct Ethan Hawke in an ambitious tale of a futuristic Earth populated entirely by vampires, and the efforts made by the creatures to ensure that their food supply doesn’t run out as humankind is faced with extinction. The year is 2017, …
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Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast)

Youth in Revolt

Friday, January 8th, 2010 Movie Reviews
Superbad’s Michael Cera discovers a vacation romance in Youth in Revolt, a teen comedy from Charlie Bartlett’s screenwriter, Gustin Nash, and director Miguel Arteta (Chuck & Buck). The film is an adaptation of C.D. Payne’s first book in a series of best-selling satirical novels starring Nick Twisp, a sexually charged 14-year-old whose intelligence …
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Rating: 3.0/5 (1 vote cast)

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 Movie Reviews
The lovable singing-and-dancing trio of famous marmots continues their big-screen hijinks with this follow-up to the 20th Century Fox smash-hit live-action/CG family comedy, this time incorporating a female version of the group entitled the Chipettes. Dr. Dolittle’s Betty Thomas helms with Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, and Jesse McCartney retur…
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Rating: 4.0/5 (1 vote cast)

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