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Review: After Earth 31 May 2013 | 12:00 pm
There's a lot to like about the new science fiction film After Earth, directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Will and Jaden Smith. From the wonderfully organic feel of the far future world to the...
Review: Star Trek Into Darkness 17 May 2013 | 11:00 am
The Star Trek TV show was an important step in the evolution of science fiction, a post-Cold War series that offered a hopeful future, a future where race, creed, religion and gender were irrelevant a...
Review: The Great Gatsby 10 May 2013 | 11:00 am
In a sea of bland lookalike films, the brash, electric new production of F. Scott Fitzgerald's landmark book The Great Gatsby is an art deco dream of the 1920s, fueled by too much gin and too many seq...
Review: Iron Man 3 6 May 2013 | 05:21 pm
After the narrative train wreck that was Iron Man 2, I was curious where the story would take us with inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) in the Marvel universe. Last time he was on screen was the ...
Review: Pain & Gain 26 Apr 2013 | 11:00 am
There are two fundamental problems with the action "comedy" Pain and Gain: First, Michael Bay is the wrong director for this sort of material, and second, whoever cast the likable Mark Wahlberg and Dw...
Review: Oblivion 20 Apr 2013 | 02:06 am
I knew going into the theater that Oblivion starred Tom Cruise. It's hard to miss. And there's something about Cruise movies, something about the fact that he's in every single scene and that whether ...
Review: The Place Beyond the Pines 12 Apr 2013 | 11:00 am
The "sins of the father becoming the sins of the son" is the heart of The Place Beyond the Pines, and the story begins with ne'er do well circus stunt rider Luke (Ryan Gosling) learning that he has a ...
Review: G.I. Joe: Retaliation 28 Mar 2013 | 10:00 am
Some films require a specific demographic for full enjoyment, and in the action genre, it seems there are a lot aimed at teen boys. A prime example: Gone in Sixty Seconds. It's not that it's a horribl...
Review: Olympus Has Fallen 22 Mar 2013 | 10:00 am
The previews looked cool. I mean, it's an audacious concept to have terrorists storm the White House and take the President of the United States hostage. What could go wrong with a fast-paced action m...
Review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone 15 Mar 2013 | 10:00 am
Magicians are a funny lot. Awkward, often unpopular kids who found a creative channel to gain popularity and hopefully reduce the daily pummelings from the school bully. It's tough to be a kid, and if...
