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Comment on Jack and Jill ✮1/2 by Pop

Pop — Tue, 22 May 2012 02:42:46 +0000

I wonder if PT Anderson still likes his mvioes? I also wonder if Adam realizes that the line is really blurring between these films and the fake ones in Funny People.

Comment on Dark Shadows ✮✮ by Glenn Lovell

Glenn Lovell — Sat, 12 May 2012 22:15:55 +0000

Thanks for the insights. I, obviously, was never a fan.

Comment on Dark Shadows ✮✮ by joe

joe — Sat, 12 May 2012 20:32:19 +0000

Although I agree with your overall review of the movie, your take on the original soap is incorrect. The original DS was never low-brow camp. It was classic melodrama with gothic romance and supernatural twists. Watching that low budget show (taped live with no post production editing, heavy studio cameras, cheap sets) by today’s standards makes it seem as if it was done for camp. It wasn’t nor was it taken as such by its legions of pre-teen thru college-age fans. One would only have to read some of the tens of thousands of old fan letters to see that fact. It was today’s ‘Twilight’ series in daytime. For this Depp/Burton collaboration, I wasn’t looking for a ‘Twilight’ knockoff but only for a first-class gothic horror flick with Depp as the love-torn vampire. That lost potential is the real curse on Barnabas Collins.

Comment on 21 Jump Street ✮1/2 by Lynn

Lynn — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:59:22 +0000

My sentiments exactly! This would have been only about the 3nd movie in my life I really wanted to walk out of, but somehow I thought it HAD to get better…..it didn’t!!!

Comment on Rango ✮✮✮ by Latest Movie Trailers

Latest Movie Trailers — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:51:14 +0000

Great blog to read with an interesting movie reviews. Awaiting for your new movie reviews.

Comment on The Ides of March ✮✮1/2 by Daed

Daed — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:05:15 +0000

Wow! I have found you. I have searched for many years for a film critic I could trust.

Comment on 21 Jump Street ✮1/2 by Daed

Daed — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:37:40 +0000

“an occasional chuckle before devolving into a succession of increasingly lame sketches.”

Dead on. Seems like they asked each introverted geek actor to think of something ‘they’ thought was realllllly funny.

Comment on ATM by Glenn Lovell

Glenn Lovell — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:29:56 +0000

Twist: the killer’s not taking revenge, but rather arbitrarily triangulating his targets. You figured that out in advance?

Comment on ATM by JiM

JiM — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:52:43 +0000

Seriously???? How was the ending a twist ???

Comment on The Woman in Black ✮✮ by Bryana

Bryana — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:05:03 +0000

Looks really creepy. I just hope there’s a really strong reason why his character went inside the most haunted looking house ever ALONE because if there’s not then he’s just the dumbest person ever.