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Saturday, February 16, 2013
Film / Film Reviews Weekend Film Reviews: A Good Day to Die Hard; Beautiful Creatures; and more
Posted By Matt Brunson on Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 4:32 PM
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Still Playing:
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Be sure to also check out our comprehensive coverage of the James Bond series, as well as our picks for the Best & Worst Movies of 2012:
The Double-Oh Dossier: Lists of all things Bond
Film 2012: The Best & Worst
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Film / Film Reviews Weekend Film Reviews: Movie 43; Warm Bodies; and more
Posted By Matt Brunson on Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 4:12 PM
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- Summit Entertainment
- Warm Bodies
Still Playing:
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- Universal
- Les Miserables
Also:
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Film / Film Reviews Weekend Film Reviews: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters; Quartet; and more
Posted By Matt Brunson on Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 1:00 PM
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- Paramount
- Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Still Playing:
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Film / Film Reviews Weekend Film Reviews: Mama; Rust and Bone
Posted By Matt Brunson on Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Film / Film Reviews Weekend Film Reviews: Zero Dark Thirty; Gangster Squad; The Impossible; Hyde Park on Hudson; Promised Land
Posted By Matt Brunson on Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 3:06 PM
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- Warner Bros.
- Gangster Squad
Friday, December 28, 2012
Film / Film Reviews Year-End Film Reviews: The Hobbit, Django Unchained, Les Miserables and 15 more
Posted By Matt Brunson on Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 4:45 PM
No new movies are opening in theaters this weekend, so here's a chance to catch up with films still playing. Click on the link to be taken directly to the review.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Film / Film Reviews Blu-ray Pick: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Posted By Matt Brunson on Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 2:09 PM
SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS (1964)
**** (for bad-movie buffs)
* (for the rest of humanity)
DIRECTED BY Nicholas Webster
STARS John Call, Bill McCutcheon
By the time Santa Claus Conquers the Martians benefited from national exposure thanks to a 1991 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, aficionados of turkey cinema had already been familiar with this mind-numbing movie for years. A staple at those "worst film festivals" that were in vogue during the late 1970s and early 1980s, this inept achievement nearly rivals Plan 9 from Outer Space and Robot Monster in its overwhelming incompetence at every level.
Long a prisoner of the public-domain realm, the film has finally been accorded a decent release from Kino Lorber, the specialty outfit known more for releasing landmark motion pictures from the likes of Fritz Lang and Buster Keaton than for putting its muscle behind grade-Z efforts. But bless them for taking the time: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians should be, uh, enjoyed by everyone at least one in their lifetimes.
The film concerns itself with the well-meaning but ill-advised scheme by the Martian rulers to kidnap our Santa Claus and make him cheer up the sad little children on the Red Planet (one moppet is played by a 9-year-old Pia Zadora, long before she became a multiple Golden Raspberry Award winner during the 1980s). John Call essays the role of Santa, and his slightly maniacal leer and constant groping of the kids make one long for the days of Miracle on 34th Street's Edmund Gwenn. At any rate, it's not long before our hero is cheering up everyone on Mars with his rancid jokes. One sample offering: "What's soft and round and you put it on a stick and you toast it on a fire and it's green? A Martianmallow!"
Friday, December 21, 2012
Film / Film Reviews Christmas Week Film Reviews: Django Unchained; Les Miserables; Jack Reacher; This Is 40; The Guilt Trip
Posted By Matt Brunson on Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 5:50 PM
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- The Weinstein Company
- Django Unchained
Django Unchained (opens Tuesday)
Les Miserables (opens Tuesday)
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Film / Film Reviews Weekend Film Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey; plus, 12 other recent titles
Posted By Matt Brunson on Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 1:44 PM
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
And here are some other major films still playing.
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Film / Film Reviews Weekend Film Reviews: Hitchcock; Killing Them Softly; A Royal Affair; Rise of the Guardians
Posted By Matt Brunson on Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 11:00 AM
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- The Weinstein Company
- Killing Them Softly
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Knight and Day: Plot eclipsed by stars 1
Cruise and Diaz are main reasons to consider seeing mindless action flick.
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Lunch Break (9/1/16): Organizers unveil "People, Not Polluters" platform in Charlotte as McCrory officials testify in Raleigh
The morning already passed us by. What the hell happened?
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The press should stop publishing the names of mass murderers 1
They want fame, so lets cut off their fuel source.
