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Blu-ray Review: Inkheart
A popular theme in literature and movies is the idea that the "real" characters from the book/movie are able to interact with "fictional" characters from an internal realm. In Jumanji, animals come...
View ArticleMovie Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Harry Potter universe gets decidedly darker with the sixth installment, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The Death Eaters are on the loose causing havoc and death in the muggle world, while...
View ArticleMovie Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I wanted to love this movie – I really did. I have been a great fan of the Harry Potter novels and movies since they first came out. When the book Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was released, I...
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Movie Review: Another Year – Directed by Mike Leigh
The object of Another Year, Mike Leigh’s latest film, is to make the viewer care about the joys and sorrows in the lives of a group of late-middle-aged friends and, for a film with no great deal of...
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Movie Review: Another Year
As the plot of Mike Leigh’s latest film unfurled itself with leisured ease across the screen at Rosh Pina’s Cinematheque, I became increasingly convinced that its central vision is Jewish. Moreover,...
View ArticleBlu-ray Review: The Mikado and Topsy-Turvy — The Criterion Collection
The Films Gilbert and Sullivan fans have a lot to be grateful for this month with the Blu-ray releases of The Mikado and Topsy-Turvy. The former immortalizes one of the pair’s most well-known...
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Movie Review: Arthur Christmas
Arthur Christmas comes to us courtesy of Sony Pictures Animation and Aardman, the latter of which is best known for Wallace and Gromit. This doesn’t have the rough-and-ready aesthetic of what they’re...
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Movie Review: Arthur Christmas
As much as I love watching my annual onslaught of horror movies every October, even more so do I love my Christmas season movies. The standards are obvious (White Christmas, A Christmas Story, National...
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Movie Review: The Iron Lady
Him: (slathering tomato ketchup over his food) “I used to be Prime Minister.” Me: (pouring derision on top) “Don’t be silly. You need to slosh H.P. Sauce, wear a Gannex raincoat and stick a pipe...
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Movie Review: Cloud Atlas
Trying to live up to the hype after making the big budget epic Matrix sure seems to have been taxing for Lana and Andy Wachowski. Not even their own Matrix sequels managed to live up to audience...
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