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The Adjustment Bureau Too Long-Winded to be Effectivenew
The Adjustment Bureau is a conceptual thriller, a kind of meat-and-potatoes, clunky brain twister in Inception-mode.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
03-02-2011 |
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Tags: The Adjustment Bureau
The Illusionist Animates a Tati Screenplaynew
The French animated film The Illusionist is as wispy and delicate as a helium balloon floating on the wind.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
02-16-2011 |
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Tags: The Illusionist
Barcelona Becomes Gomorrah in Biutifulnew
The picture Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu paints of Barcelona in his new film Biutiful is anything but.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
02-14-2011 |
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Tags: Biutiful, Javier Bardem
The Outlaw is an Assnew
The Green Hornet spoofs dark vigilante drama.
Charleston City Paper |
MaryAnn Johanson |
01-20-2011 |
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Tags: The Green Hornet
In Good Companynew
The Company Men is relevant but heavy handed at times.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
01-20-2011 |
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Tags: The Company Men
A Gay Old Timenew
Phillip Morris is more than a homoerotic Catch Me If You Can.
Charleston City Paper |
Kevin Young |
01-05-2011 |
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Little Fockers is a Viagra-Induced Four-Hour Hard-Onnew
It astonishes me that people -- many people -- proudly put their names on Little Fockers, even the ones who aren't on screen who could have escaped unknown.
Charleston City Paper |
MaryAnn Johanson |
12-28-2010 |
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The Latest Installment In The Narnia Saga Is A Real Snoozernew
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Ha. The most recent installment in The Chronicles of Narnia series should've been called The Voyage of the Yawn Treader.
Charleston City Paper |
MaryAnn Johanson |
12-08-2010 |
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In 127 Hours, There's More To Cutting Your Arm Off Than You Thinknew
Vastly entertaining for what it shows of human ingenuity as well as Danny Boyle's wildfire visual imagination, 127 Hours is a classic, albeit internalized, adventure story juiced up with Boyle's attention-deficit-disorder camera work, which renders the world a pop-music fueled, caffeinated frenzy, as hallucinatory as any drug trip.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
12-01-2010 |
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Love and Other Drugs Brings Us Sociopathic Sex Fiendsnew
There's a word for people who are very clever at manipulating other people emotionally while feeling nothing themselves. That word is "sociopath."
Charleston City Paper |
MaryAnn Johanson |
11-30-2010 |
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Tags: Love and Other Drugs
Girl Powernew
We haven't seen the last of Lisbeth Salander.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-17-2010 |
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Allen Ginsberg Rocks the Literary World in Howlnew
This is not the soup-to-nuts version of Ginsberg's life but instead a tone poem of what Ginsberg meant to the age he lived in — and to successive ages.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-03-2010 |
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Tags: Howl
Hilary Swank Fights For a New Causenew
In Conviction, brother and sister Kenny (Sam Rockwell) and Betty Anne Waters (Hilary Swank) have the kind of fierce devotion to each other more often seen in movie lovers or mafioso.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
10-27-2010 |
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Check Out These Off-The-Grid Horror Filmsnew
With Halloween all up in here this weekend, there are times one may not be able, physically or mentally, to do the going-out stuff.
Charleston City Paper |
Kevin Young |
10-27-2010 |
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A Film Unfinished Exposes a Nazi Propaganda Filmnew
In 1942, the Nazis created a shocking documentary, labeled Ghetto, that depicted this cruel purgatory. Ghetto was discovered after the conclusion of World War II in an East German archive and was initially taken as a straight document of life in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
10-25-2010 |
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