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Anything Goes: Johnny Knoxville and Team Will Make You Laugh
What began as a juvenile MTV series in 2000 has gone on to inspire outbursts of uncontrollable laughter and groans around the world via the Jackass franchise's progressively more hilarious movies.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
10-18-2010 |
Reviews
All Climax and No Impact: 2010 Shaping up as Year of the Abysmal Action
Here's another pound of proof supporting the theorem that "story is about thoroughness, not shortcuts."
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
10-12-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Red, Robert Schwentke
Life in the Sinkhole: Hollywood Romantic Comedies Don't Know Where to Begin
Aspiring to combine comedy, tragedy, and romance into a deep-meaning treatise on the prettiest and happiest white people you've ever seen, "Life as We Know It" is less than it pretends to be.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
10-04-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Greg Berlanti, Life as We Know It
A Movie More Entertaining Than Facebook
Boy tech geeks won't be able to prevent themselves from outbursts of clapping, laughter, and bladder leaks while watching David Fincher's fast-paced drama about the meteoric rise of Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
09-27-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: David Fincher, The Social Network
Oliver Stone Sweetens the Pain: Wall Street Sequel Hits All the High Points
Oliver Stone makes a winning attempt at staying true to his original "Wall Street's" streamlined storytelling about the warped mentality of the center of the economic universe.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
09-20-2010 |
Reviews
Ben Affleck's Domain
Ben Affleck has so thoroughly reinvented himself as an actor that it's tempting to take for granted his commendable skills as a director even after his notable debut with "Gone Baby Gone."
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
09-13-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: The Town, Ben Affleck
Taste the Fury: Mexploitation Comes to Town
Robert Rodriguez's co-directed grindhouse fun-fest "Machete" is loaded with laughs, gore, and sly '70s-styled social commentary about America's current immigration crack-down.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
08-31-2010 |
Reviews
A Good Crone Atones: Children's Franchise Recovers With Polished Sequel
A vast improvement over the 2005 franchise introduction of co-writer/actress Emma Thompson's Mary-Poppinsish household savior, "Nanny McPhee Returns" finds modern-day meaning in its World War II era English trappings.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
08-16-2010 |
Reviews
Reel to Video: Video Game Marketing Goes Big Screen
Cinema of the eternally pubescent hits a new low with director/co-writer Edgar Wright's adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic novel.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
08-10-2010 |
Reviews
The Boys Are Back: Action Star Medley Plays the Hits
Lean, mean, funny, and chockablock with fast-twitch demolition spectacle, "The Expendables" represents a grand finale for several generations of action cinema stars.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
08-09-2010 |
Reviews
Brothers of the Rope: George Mallory's Quest is Brought Full-Circle
Just when you were fed up with the whole idea of people climbing Mount Everest like it was a rollercoaster at Magic Mountain, documentarian Anthony Geffen reclaims a significant aspect of the mountain's storied history.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
08-02-2010 |
Reviews
Straight Man / Funny Man: Paul Rudd and Steve Carell Crack Wise
Great comic pairings don't come along often. Yet, Steve Carell and Paul Rudd strike a snappy chemistry as straight man to funnyman.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
07-26-2010 |
Reviews
Garbled Objectives: Todd Solandz--Same Old Thing
Todd Solandz is back once again to beat his convoluted dead-horse themes of race relations and schmaltzy pedophilia.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
07-20-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Life During Wartime, Todd Solandz
Stressed Rhythms: Stieg Larsson's Trilogy Takes a Dive
The second installment in the filmic adaptation of the late Stieg Larsson's large-scale crime trilogy "Millennium" pales in comparison to "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo."
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
07-12-2010 |
Reviews
Why VOD is Inevitable
Video on Demand is already poised serve the full spectrum of Hollywood, foreign, and independent films.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
07-10-2010 |
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