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One Angel VS A Legion
Legion
starring Paul Bettany, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Adrianne Palicki, Charles S. Dutton, Kevin Durand, Kate Walsh, Dennis Quaid
directed by Scott Stewart
The subject of angels and demons has become less and less of a taboo in our pop culture. Movies, TV shows, and comic books all talk about realities where Revelations is interpreted a multitude of [...]
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Pick up your crazy heart, give it one more try.
Crazy Heart
starring Jeff Bridges, Ryan Bingham, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell
directed by Scott Cooper
So the Golden Globes came around this year, and a little movie called Crazy Heart won a few awards. I had seen posters for the movie and I believe I had seen the trailer at least once, but my interest didn’t [...]
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Introducing a Creepy Stanley Tucci
The Lovely Bones
starring Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon
directed by Peter Jackson
Alice Sebold’s tragically beautiful novel The Lovely Bones hit the reading scene like a nuclear bomb. It was refreshing, stunningly heartfelt, and grappled with some pretty serious material rather well. As with most successful books, it didn’t surprise that rights [...]
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Denzel REALLY Loves His Bible.
The Book of Eli
starring Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Evan Jones, Michael Gambon, Tom Waits, Malcolm McDowell
directed by Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes
Seeing DenzelWashington in a preview for a post-apocalypse type film took me by total suprise. I guess I’ve just grown accustomed to his recent streak of crime dramas; [...]
Like Moby Put It: On to the Next
The Doctor talks about the year in music and about things to come. Gather around the campfire, children, it’s time to listen to the wisdom of the one they call RABBITFOOT. Or the Hulk will eat you.
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Heath Ledger, One More Time.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
starring Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell, Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Tom Waits, Verne Troyer
directed by Terry Gilliam
When you walk into a Terry Gilliam film, you can expect a film experience altogether different from the mainstream. Its quirkier, its more intelligent, and its deeply and sometimes overly complicated. This [...]
Not Another Vampire Movie…
Daybreakers
starring Jay Laga’aia, Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill, Claudia Karvan, Isabel Lucas, Willem Dafoe
directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig
Vampires seem to be the way to go to make money in sci-fi/fantasy film making these days. And to be fair, it definitely has its fan base due to recent hits like both Twilight and New Moon, [...]
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Michael Cera in Revolt. Sort of.
Youth In Revolt
starring Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Zach Galifianakis, Steve Buscemi, Fred Willard, Ari Graynor, Ray Liotta, Justin Long, M. Emmet Walsh
directed by Miguel Arteta
There’s nothing quite like a coming of age movie. Admit it; its fun to watch yet another young guy or gal go through all that traumatic teen angst. The longing, the rejection, [...]
How To Ruin A Cult Classic
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, Billy Connolly, Clifton Collins Jr., Julie Benz, Peter Fonda, Judd Nelson, Willem Dafoe
directed by Troy Duffy
When people talk about cult films of the last decade, its hard to imagine the action gem of The Boondock Saints getting overlooked. Sure, it didn’t have a [...]
Mad Mel: On the Edge