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Sock It to Me!
The first all-sock puppet film noir finds a lot of fun in top drawer puns.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
07-28-2005 |
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Must We Love Dogs?
Not even a cast this wonderful can overcome the rom-com cliches.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
07-28-2005 |
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Feeling Hustled
Resist the Rocky redemption references -- strong performances aside, Hustle & Flow is a lazy and somewhat ignorant empty gesture.
Columbus Alive |
Nikki Davis |
07-25-2005 |
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Tags: Craig Brewer, Hustle & Flow
Tortured Horror
Rob Zombie's lovingly-made latest will leave genre fans squirming in their seats by the finale, but maybe not for the right reasons.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
07-25-2005 |
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More Bad News
Richard Linklater and the Bad Santa boys' remake is amusing, but also completely superfluous.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
07-25-2005 |
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Sci-fi Twist on Action Film Flops
Michael Bay's The Island rapidly devolves into a brainless mess of chases and badly choreographed action movie clichés, all told in Bay’s signature choppy, brutal, throbbing style.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
07-25-2005 |
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Oompa-Loompas With Extra Oomph
Inevitably, Burton’s work will be put up against the film that came before it, and this one can stand the comparison well. While not a great film, it’s smart, enjoyable and, most important, respectful of both its audience and its author’s legacy.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
07-14-2005 |
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Tripping the Four Fantastic
Marvel's first family comes to the big screen in an aggressively (and appropriately) half-assed endeavor.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
07-08-2005 |
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Independence Day as Prestige Pic
Spielberg's War of the Worlds is the quintessential Hollywood movie, for better and worse.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
06-30-2005 |
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Summer Day Dreaming
The director offers a thoughtful, impressionistic take on a salacious topic: one heated summer between two teenage girls in Yorkshire.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
06-23-2005 |
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Undead and Loving It
The father of the zombie movie returns to the genre he created to teach these whippersnappers a thing or two about gore and horror.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
06-23-2005 |
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Hex Crimes
Not content to make another terrible romantic comedy or another terrible based-on-TV-show movie, the Ephrons create the ro-meta-ntic comedy; disaster ensues.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
06-23-2005 |
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The Wrong Duff
The Perfect Man is perfectly frabricated pap.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
06-16-2005 |
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Once More, From the Beginning...
Batman Begins sails over the exceptionally low bar of not sucking as bad as Batman and Robin.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
06-16-2005 |
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Return to Vietnam
Landmark 1974 documentary "Hearts and Minds" finds new relevance in its re-release.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
06-09-2005 |
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