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Out of the Closet
With a fairly faithful adaptation of the first book, the Chronicles of Narnia film franchise is off to a strong start, thank Aslan.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
12-08-2005 |
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All Down Hill
The latest -- and weakest -- of the post-Dogtown crop of x-treme-umentaries will occasionally thrill you with amazing footage, when it's not boring you to tears.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
12-01-2005 |
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And the Winner Isn't
It's saintly mother versus sinning father in a melodramatic struggle to feed their too many kids.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
11-03-2005 |
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Not Quite Ready For Prime Time
Torn between infantile rom com and mature dramedy, Prime suffers from it's own identity crisis.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-31-2005 |
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Tags: Ben Younger, Prime
Cut Off at the Legs
A clever/stupid horror movie gets a perfectly clever/stupid sequel.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-27-2005 |
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Tags: Darren Lynn Bousman, Saw II
Should You Stay Or Should You Go Now?
Finding Neverland's director Marc Forster's slick execution of one of the dumbest ideas ever put to film.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-20-2005 |
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Tags: Marc Forster, Stay
The Rock In A Hard Place
Not even the normally engaging wrestler-turned-actor seems half-alive in Doom, the based-on-a-videogame movie that gives based-on-a-videogame movies a bad—well, worse—name.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-20-2005 |
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Tags: doom, Andrzej Bartkowiak
9021Woah!
Self-consciously cool hyphenated heist hybrid Domino is utterly and consistently ridiculous, just one of the main reasons for the film's relentless awesome-ness.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-13-2005 |
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Tags: Tony Scott, Domino
Escapist Velocity
Buffy creator Joss Whedon graduates from the small screen to the silver screen with Sci-Fi/western Serenity, and proves there's no such thing as bad genres, just bad genre films.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-29-2005 |
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Tags: Joss Whedon, Serenity
Re-Animator
Tim Burton's nightmare after Christmas maybe more of the same, but it's still a delightful Day of the Dead celebration in animated form.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-22-2005 |
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Just Like Hell...But Worse
Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo are better off dead in this rote rom com with a euthanasia twist.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-15-2005 |
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Who's on Top?
An ass-obsessed buddy cop comedy is predictably crappy.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-08-2005 |
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Tags: Les Mayfield, The Man
Law & Order: Special Exorcism Unit
Is The Exorcism of Emily Rose as good as The Exorcist? No. Is it occasionally as scary? Yes.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-08-2005 |
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When Animals Attack
Herzog's grisly documentary bares the soul of a ballsy but troubled environmentalist.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
08-25-2005 |
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And You Thought Sitting Next to a Crying Baby Was Bad...
Wes Craven's decent thriller initiates Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy into the mile high club.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
08-18-2005 |
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