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‘Runner Runner’: A World of Beautiful People and Corruption You Hardly Care For
The star power one possesses when able to disappear for a few years and come back with a vengeance is limited to a few number of performers. Justin Timberlake is one of those few; his ability to go off the celebrity radar and come back in both the music and fi...
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‘Getaway’: CRASH! COME ON! CRASH! ANSWER! CRASH! SHUT UP! CRASH!
The following contains the full experience of Courtney Solomon's Getaway. It may contain spoilers, if you consider dialogue from the film spoilers.
CRASH.
BROKEN GLASS.
PUDDLES OF BLOOD.
FLASHBACK. FLASHBACK. FLASHBACK.
WOMEN BEATEN UP GRATUITO...
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The Trouble With the Terrible ‘Turbo’
The most tried-and-true formula in the history of storytelling is the tale of the underdog. In the proud tradition of David, The Miracle on Ice, and Susan Boyle comes Turbo, the snail who dreamed a dream of being a race car driver. Turbo doesn't have to face a...
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‘Stories We Tell’
Narrative is the way we relate to the world and to each other. We tell stories to communicate ideas, and to relate the events and emotions we experience. We tell stories to hold on to our memories. Sarah Polley’s new film, Stories We Tell, is an exploration of...
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Dead Man Down: Critic Man Yawn
Dead Man Down, the new directorial effort from Niels Arden Oplev, desperately tries to deliver the pleasures of both a noirish thriller and an action bonanza. Unfortunately, it fails at both. Some slick cinematography and a game cast are wasted, as you feel th...
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Los Angeles Top 5 (2/15/13- 2/21/13)
LA is the greatest place on earth to watch movies. Here are this week's best picks.
1. Like Someone in Love at the Laemmle Royal (STARTS FRIDAY 2/15, RUNS ALL WEEK)
Abbas Kiarostami, director of Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, Ten, and Certi...
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Parker: When A Movie Seems To Simply… Exist
C
There's nothing especially bad about Parker, 2013's first entry into the Jason Statham filmography. There's nothing especially good either. I was never bored, yet I was never enthralled. We get a few entertaining if implausible heists, a few violent and f...
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Hainline’s 50 Most Anticipated Films of 2013
If you're like me, you have insane enthusiasm the mainstream and the independent. The monsters within and the literal monsters. The artsy and the fartsy. I've ranked the fifty films I'm most looking forward to this year, provided one line descriptions, and lis...
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‘A Haunted House:’ Fifty Examples of Marlon Wayans’ Sense of Humor
F
I took copious notes during A Haunted House, shaking off hand cramps and straining to listen to the dialogue over the howls of laughter from the man sitting to my left and the snores of the man sitting to my right. I fell somewhere in between my two aisle...
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A Musical Review of ‘Les Miserables’
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Editor's Note: Below is a review written to the tune of "Master of the House" from the musical 'Les Miserables.' Albeit my natural bias, what you're about to read may just blow your mind. Consider yourself warned.
Tom Hooper:
Welcome, Monsieur, sit yo...
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