8 years ago
All posts by Dan Schindel
‘Ender’s Game’ Proves Faithfulness To The Source Isn’t Always A Good Thing
Ender's Game is neither particularly good nor bad. It just exists.
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‘Last Vegas’ Is As Old and Tired As Its Characters
Mercifully, the actors are not degrading themselves here -- they only stoop as low as mere slumming.
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‘Free Birds’ Should Have Stayed Cooped Up
I thought that no movie this year could possibly top Turbo for lazy story ideas, but Free Birds proved me utterly wrong.
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Director Gavin Hood and Producers Roberto Orci and Gigi Pritzker Talk ‘Ender’s Game’
A discussion with the minds behind the film adaptation of the sci-fi classic.
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‘I Am Divine’ Is A Fitting Tribute to the Entertainer
This documentary opens up the life and work of "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World."
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‘The Counselor’ Needs More Car-Humping
This combination of Ridley Scott, Cormac McCarthy, the drug war, and an all-star cast is sorely disappointing.
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‘Kill Your Darlings’ Fails To Capture the Rebellious Spirit of the Beat Generation
At some recent juncture, popular culture began treating important figures an awful lot like superheroes. Movies like 42, Hyde Park on Hudson, jOBS and more seek to distill famous people to easily digestible qualities while weaving their lives into palatable na...
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Review: ‘Zero Charisma’ Fails Its Saving Throw
For those not versed in the parlance of Dungeons & Dragons, "charisma" is one of the attributes players can tweak when creating their characters for the game. The more points one puts into charisma, the more appealing that character's personality. God negl...
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‘All the Boys Love Mandy Lane’ Doesn’t Live Up To Its Ambitions
It took seven years for this horror film to be released. It wasn't worth the wait.
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‘The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete’: A Grim Retelling of ‘Grave of the Fireflies’
There's a lot that The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete has going for it, so much that the fact that it feels like less than the sum of its parts is a disappointment. The movie has a sincere but merciless worldview, a crisp cinematographic eye, and a won...
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