Category: Film Reviews
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Review: Haywire (2012)
Haywire Rating Director Steven Soderbergh Screenplay Lem Dobbs Length 93 min. Starring Gina Carano, Michael Angarano, Channing Tatum, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor, Eddie J Fernandez, Maximino Arciniega, Michael Fassbender, Anthony Brandon Wong, Bill Paxton MPAA Rating R for some violence
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Review: The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
The Cabin in the Woods Rating Director Drew Goddard Screenplay Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard Length 95 min. Starring Kristen Connelly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Brian White, Amy Acker, Tim De Zam MPAA Rating R for strong bloody horror violence and gore, language, drug use and some sexuality/nudity.
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Review: John Carter (2012)
John Carter Rating Director Andrew Stanton Screenplay Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews, Michael Chabon (Story “A Princess of Mars”: Edgar Rice Burroughs) Length 132 min. Starring Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Willem Dafoe, Thomas Haden Church, Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds, Dominic West, James Purefoy, Bryan Cranston, Polly Walker, Daryl Sabara MPAA Rating PG-13 for intense…
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The Morning After: Jun. 18, 2012
Welcome to The Morning After, where I share with you what I’ve seen over the past week either in film or television. On the film side, if I have written a full length review already, I will post a link to that review. Otherwise, I’ll give a brief snippet of my thoughts on the film…
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Reviews: The Girls with the Dragon Tattoo
I don’t often have the privilege of reading the novel upon which a successful adaptation is based, better yet two such film representations. I first sat down to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with the David Fincher film late last year and have since taken up the novel and the original Swedish adaptation before…
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The Morning After: Jun. 11, 2012
Welcome to The Morning After, where I share with you what I’ve seen over the past week either in film or television. On the film side, if I have written a full length review already, I will post a link to that review. Otherwise, I’ll give a brief snippet of my thoughts on the film…
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Review: Prometheus (2012)
Prometheus Rating Director Ridley Scott Screenplay Jon Spaihts, Damon Lindelof Length 124 min. Starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Logan Marshall-Green, Sean Harris, Rafe Spall, Emun Elliott, Benedict Wong, Kate Dickie, Patrick Wilson, Lucy Hutchinson MPAA Rating R for sci-fi violence including some intense images, and brief language
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Review: Alien 3 (1992)
Alien 3 Rating Director David Fincher Screenplay Vincent Ward, David Giler, Walter Hill, Larry Ferguson Length 114 min. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover, Ralph Brown, Danny Webb, Christopher John Fields, Holt McCallany, Lance Henriksen, Chris Fairbank, Carl Chase, Leon Herbert, Vincenzo Nicoli, Pete Postlethwaite MPAA Rating R for…
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Review: Aliens (1986)
Aliens Rating Director James Cameron Screenplay James Cameron, David Gilser, Walter Hill Length 137 min. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, William Hope, Al Matthews, Mark Rolston, Ricco Ross, Colette Hiller, Daniel Kash, Cynthia Dale Scott, Tip Tipping, Trevor Steedman, Paul Maxwell MPAA Rating R for…
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Review: Alien (1979)
Alien Rating Director Ridley Scott Screenplay Dan O’Bannon, Ronald Shusett Length 117 min. Starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto MPAA Rating R for sci-fi violence/gore and language
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The Alien Quintet
This weekend saw the release of the fifth narrative-driven film of the alien franchise (I am not including the out-of-place Alien vs. Predator films) and it debuted to large numbers, validating the interest in the prequel that box office pundits seemed to discount in their analyses of the weekend. After I picked up the movie…
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The Morning After: Jun. 4, 2012
Welcome to The Morning After, where I share with you what I’ve seen over the past week either in film or television. On the film side, if I have written a full length review already, I will post a link to that review. Otherwise, I’ll give a brief snippet of my thoughts on the film…
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Review: Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
Snow White and the Huntsman Rating Director Rupert Sanders Screenplay Evan Daugherty, John Lee Hancock, Hossein Amini (Story: The Brothers Grimm) Length 127 min. Starring Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Sam Claflin, Sam Spruell, Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, Nick Frost, Eddie Marsan, Toby Jones, Johnny Harris, Brian Gleeson, Vincent Regan, Noah Huntley…
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Review: Mirror Mirror (2012)
Mirror Mirror Rating Director Tarsem Singh Screenplay Jason Keller, Marc Klein, Melisa Wallack (Story: The Brothers Grimm) Length 106 min. Starring Julia Roberts, Lily Collins, Armie Hammer, Nathan Lane, Jordan Prentice, Mark Povinelli, Joe Gnoffo, Danny Woodburn, Sebastian Saraceno, Martin Klebba, Ronald Lee Clark, Robert Emms, Mare Winningham, Michael Lerner, Sean Bean MPAA Rating PG…
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Review: The Avengers (2012)
The Avengers Rating Director Joss Whedon Screenplay Joss Whedon, Zak Penn Length 143 min. Starring Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Saunders, Stellan Skarsgard, Samuel L. Jackson, Gwyneth Paltrow MPAA Rating PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action throughout, and a…
