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Review: The Woman in Black

Let’s get one thing out of the way right off the bat: I am rather partial to the idea of Daniel Radcliffe in a suit. Already, The Woman in Black, Radcliffe’s brand new “Hey Look! It’s Totally Not Harry Potter!!” project, has scored some points with me, and that’s before I’ve even set foot inside [...]

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Review: Tangled

What a great year 2010 has been for animation. How to Train Your Dragon was Dreamworks’ most successful movie to date on both the artistic and financial levels, Toy Story 3 closed out one of the greatest animated movie series of the past twenty years on a pitch-perfect note, Mamoru Hosoda’s Summer Wars is doing [...]

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Review: Megamind

Confession time: I didn’t see Despicable Me this summer. It was at my theatre from July until October, giving me ample opportunity to see it. But I didn’t. I didn’t want to. I’m sure it’s a great movie, but I didn’t feel compelled to see it despite the good reviews and recommendations from friends. I [...]

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Spontaneous Retrospective: Part 1 – Brad Dourif

I saw a movie recently called Spontaneous Combustion. It’s a lesser-known title from 1990, and it’s about rainbows and frolicking bunny ra— No, wait, sorry: it’s about spontaneous human combustion. My mistake; the title’s just so ambiguous. Anyway, I came to hear about this movie through Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness, where it was highlighted in the [...]

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Five Movies That Shaped My Life

Well, I’ve been too busy/broke to catch any new movies in the past week and a bit, so I can’t put out a new review yet. In the meanwhile, I thought I would indulge myself in the MDP “Five [Blanks] That Shaped My Life” tradition. So far, that’s only been done with books on this [...]

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