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By the Gods, Titans is much more fun the second time aroundnew
Wrath of the Titans (***) is one of those rare sequels that handily surpasses its predecessor. Admittedly, the 2010 version of Clash of the Titans was not the hardest act to follow up — indeed, the mere notion of a follow-up wasn’t entirely encouraging — but the new film is a happy surprise.
YES! Weekly |
Mark Burger |
04-05-2012 |
Reviews
My Sundance 2012 Experience
Every January, I make my annual pilgrimage to Park City, Utah, to work on the Sundance Film Festival. This year marked my 10th time working on the most prestigious film festival in North America. And this year’s crop of films was as impressive as any lineup I’ve seen since my first Sundance way back in 1999.
YES! Weekly |
Keith T. Barber |
02-16-2012 |
Movies
Tags: Sundance festival
Saldana in Colombiana, Gleeson & Cheadle on Guardnew
Tthis hackneyed and wearisome melodrama that wastes a star turn from its lithe, lethal leading lady. She deserves better, and she’s not alone. It goes without saying that the viewer deserves better, too.
YES! Weekly |
Mark Burger |
08-31-2011 |
Reviews
Tabloid: Nothing But the Truth or Something Like Itnew
Depending on whose story you choose to believe or what aspects you choose to believe, Joyce McKinney was able to spirit Kirk Anderson to a “safe house,” where she handcuffed him to a bed and had sexual relations with him.
YES! Weekly |
Mark Burger |
08-17-2011 |
Reviews
All-Star Horrible Bosses Hardly Horrible, Zookeeper for the Birdsnew
For a one-joke movie, Horrible Bosses manages to remain consistently funny — thanks in large part to those horrible bosses, played with relish by Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farrell.
YES! Weekly |
Mark Burger |
07-14-2011 |
Reviews
Heavy Metal Parking Lot: ´16 perfect minutes´new
The scene was the parking lot of the Capitol Centre in Landover, Md. before a Judas Priest/Dokken double bill in the heyday of hair metal, and the piece that resulted is basically a series of interviews with wasted teenage tailgaters that is at once disturbing, revealing and hilarious.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
06-08-2011 |
Reviews
Zack Snyder's 'Sucker Punch': The First Syllable in the Title Says it Allnew
Only rarely does the film find its voice amid the din of special effects, and never is it able to sustain that voice. Those looking for entertainment will find Sucker Punch a sucker's bet.
YES! Weekly |
Mark Burger |
04-07-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Zack Snyder, Sucker Punch
UNCSAs Big Screen Film Series is Sure to Chase Away the Summertime Bluesnew
The Big Screen series will open Saturday, June 25, with Yves Robert's award-winning 1963 French classic The War of the Buttons (la guerre des boutons), based on the novel by Louis Pergaud.
YES! Weekly |
Mark Burger |
04-05-2011 |
Movies
2011 RiverRun Documentaries Take Storytelling in a New Directionnew
The programming staff of the RiverRun International Film Festival has assembled an impressive collection of documentary films for the 2011 festival.
YES! Weekly |
Keith T. Barber |
03-28-2011 |
Movies
Inimitable, Indomitable, Indefatigable Dino De Laurentiis: A Giant Gallsnew
The name Dino De Laurentiis always meant something special. It didn’t always mean good, but it meant big. Mind-boggling. Jaw-dropping. A spectacle in every sense of the word.
YES! Weekly |
Mark Burger |
11-22-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Eastwood's Journey Into the Hereafter, and an Impassioned Howl From the Pastnew
Leave it to Clint Eastwood, one of the great American filmmakers, to upend any and all expectation in his latest film, Hereafter. This thoughtful, contemplative and seriously overlong human drama is a laudable attempt to address questions without answers.
YES! Weekly |
Mark Burger |
11-04-2010 |
Reviews
