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A Single Shot 19 Aug 2013 | 09:09 am
Sam Rockwell has a talent for picking good and unusual projects, and also delivering the goods regardless of what the role is. In the past few years we've seen him do tortured soul (Moon), wacky man-c...
Our Children 19 Aug 2013 | 07:29 am
This French movie opens with a woman (Émilie Dequenne) in the hospital telling the doctors to make sure her children are buried in Morocco, while cutting to several tiny coffin-sized boxes being loade...
The Way, Way Back 19 Aug 2013 | 03:14 am
Steve Carell has three main modes: Good guy, moron and a-hole. And whether he's being a good guy (40 Year Old Virgin, Evan Almighty, Little Miss Sunshine), moron (Anchorman, Get Smart, Dinner for Schm...
The Act of Killing 18 Aug 2013 | 12:19 pm
Imagine if WWII had ended in 1942 or 1943, before unconditional surrender became a thing, and the war had been resolved by pushing everyone back to their pre-war boundaries, but leaving the Nazis in c...
The Hunt (Jagten) 18 Aug 2013 | 06:40 am
A man who loves children finds his life destroyed when one of them accuses him of behaving inappropriately toward her in the new Danish movie The Hunt. And this is why I stay away from children. Even...
Elysium 17 Aug 2013 | 09:21 am
I thought, during the first 15 minutes or so of Elysium, that the melodrama reminded of those old damsel-in-distress setups where the maiden in question agrees to marry the landlord in order to make g...
Wolverine 14 Aug 2013 | 09:18 am
The Ackman in this movie is big. How big? Why it's huge! Just one of the many so-called jokes virtually mandated around casa 'strom. It's Wolverine with Hugh Jackman and Famke Janssen reprising the ...
Red 2 11 Aug 2013 | 06:55 am
Who doesn't love a geriatric caper flick? Going In Style, Stand Up Guys, Tough Guys—well, okay, actually those films were not very well received, but the film Red was, so here we have a sequel. And R...
Casting By 11 Aug 2013 | 05:58 am
You can tell this is a fun movie when the 18-year-old and the 12-year-old both enjoyed it, even though they had little concept of the movies being discussed. Casting By is a documentary about casting...
Pacific Rim 7 Aug 2013 | 09:29 am
What's this Pacific Rim movie about? I think it's best summed up by this poster the North Hollywood Laemmle had up: Actually, the only way Pacific Rim could've been better is if it had featured Gigan...
