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Movie review: Mud

Written on 10 Jun, 2013 in Discovered, Featured | No comments

By MIRANDA FORESMAN Matthew McConaughey has come a long way since Dazed and Confused (1993). He’s played a surfer, a pimp, couple of good lawyers, a womanizer, and many things in between. Lately he seems to play the guy without... (Continue reading)

Movie review: Oz the Great and Powerful

Written on 21 Mar, 2013 in Discovered, Featured | 3 comments

By MIRANDA FORESMAN Oz the Great and Powerful looked so very promising with its bright colors and cast of stars. The finished product, however, suffers greatly from those very same elements. For clarification, Oz the Great and Powerful is not... (Continue reading)

Movie review: Warm Bodies

Written on 10 Feb, 2013 in Discovered, Featured | 3 comments

By MIRAND FORESMAN When I heard Warm Bodies, the novel by Isaac Marion, was being made into a movie, I thought to myself, “Well, that’ll be a fun adaptation.” After screening this weekend’s box office champ, indeed it appears as... (Continue reading)

Movie review: Gangster Squad

Written on 17 Jan, 2013 in Discovered, Featured | One comment

By MIRANDA FORESMAN Gangster Squad had potential. Not the blow-you-out-of-your-seats potential, and certainly not summer-blockbuster potential, but maybe future-cult-favorite potential. That potential was as unrealized as an unlit match. Looks pretty, but does not get the job done. The cast... (Continue reading)

Movie review: Silver Linings Playbook

Written on 2 Jan, 2013 in Discovered, Featured | No comments

By MIRANDA FORESMAN I honestly can’t remember the last time I sat around waiting for a movie to hit a theater near me. Silver Linings Playbook looked like my kind of story as soon as I read about it last... (Continue reading)

Movie review: The Hobbit

Written on 23 Dec, 2012 in Discovered, Featured | 3 comments

By MIRANDA FORESMAN Nine years after the theatrical release of the final installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, director Peter Jackson brings us back to the Shire, back to Bilbo Baggins, and back 60 years to a more... (Continue reading)

Movie review: Killing Them Softly

Written on 6 Dec, 2012 in Discovered, Featured | One comment

By MIRANDA FORESMAN I like mob movies, all kinds of mob movies. Everything from The Departed (2006) to Scarface (1983), all the way back to The Big Sleep (1946). Killing Them Softly is not like those movies. It doesn’t have... (Continue reading)

Movie review: Skyfall

Written on 16 Nov, 2012 in Discovered, Featured | 4 comments

By MIRANDA FORESMAN I have a soft spot for 007, and I always have. Like many women, when I was younger, Sean Connery as James Bond was the ideal man, shaken, not stirred. And the accent. That’s not a voice... (Continue reading)

Movie review: Cloud Atlas

Written on 31 Oct, 2012 in Discovered, Featured | One comment

By MIRANDA FORESMAN I don’t suggest seeing Cloud Atlas unless you are in a particularly open-minded state and willing to be confused. For three hours. The collaboration between the directors (the Wachowskis of Matrix fame and Tom Tykwer, known for... (Continue reading)

Movie review: Argo

Written on 16 Oct, 2012 in Discovered, Featured | No comments

By MIRANDA FORESMAN My Entertainment Weekly told me about Oscar whispers for Argo back in the summer. Even though, by nature, I am not typically a fan of political or historical movies, I’ve been keeping an eye out. As the... (Continue reading)