Chronicle, a pleasantly original film, doesn’t fit a certain mold, but rather fulfills the necessary components of the sci-fi, comedy, drama and, at times, even horror genres. This film smoothly taps into a healthy variety ...

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More turbulent than flying on a red tail is the movie the aircraft is named after. Red Tails is the inspired by true events story of African American pilots in the midst of World War ...

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Let me waste as little time as possible and just get to it. With the Golden Globes behind us, and the Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards taking place in the coming weeks, I have ...

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Last year, director Gary Marshall brought us the all-star casted Valentine’s Day, and now he’s back tackling another holiday in New Year’s Eve. The set up is the same as the first, with tons of ...

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This Thanksgiving, along with a healthy serving of stuffing and tryptophan-laced turkey, I am thankful for The Muppets. A movie that is executed almost flawlessly, The Muppets needs nothing more than its splendid simplicity and ...

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There’s something about penguins that’s infinitely likeable. Talking penguins that sing, dance and provide us with insight to life are even better. So when making an animated film revolving around all of this, it’s kind ...

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J. Edgar Hoover earned a shady reputation in American history moving from a lowly field agent to the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Not only did Hoover recreate the system that the U.S. ...

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Everyone, consciously or not, has a “rite of passage” movie; that’s the one they force their friends to watch with them. In fact, it’s sort of a friendship prerequisite. And most of the time people ...

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It’s ironic that the fourth installment of the Pirates of The Caribbean franchise revolved around a quest for the fountain of youth. While it had its high points, On Stranger Tides fell short of recapturing ...

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The 2011 version of Footloose is a contemporary remake of the classic with Kevin Bacon, but it stands well as an individual work, holding its own merits. Evaluating this new version, Footloose is well-balanced between ...

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It’s been done time and time again. From Rocky to Cinderella Man to The Fighter, the feel-good underdog fighting story has been portrayed in a variety of ways on the big screen. Here comes Real ...

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It’s often assumed that an original work trumps its remake- whether it be a sequel to a movie or a movie to a book. But that isn’t always the case. Here’s a breakdown of some ...

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Based on a true story and adapted for the big screen from the book of the same name, Moneyball follows Oakland Athletics’ General Manager Billy Beane (a worn down-looking Brad Pitt) in his quest to ...

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In 1997, George Lucas revisited his magnum opus Star Wars trilogy, saying, “Movies are never completed. They are only abandoned.” The resulting Star Wars: Special Edition unleashed the space trilogy on a new generation of ...

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