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Movie Review: The Green Lantern

Written on 21 Jun, 2011 in Discovered, Featured | One comment

BY MIRANDA FORESMAN Dear Ryan Reynolds, I’m afraid we must break up. After anticipating your film Green Lantern for what feels like years, the majority of your body didn’t even show up. You let them CGI your tush in. Other... (Continue reading)

Movie Review: Midnight in Paris

Written on 19 Jun, 2011 in Discovered, Featured | No comments

BY DAVID CONGALTON The good news is that Midnight in Paris is one of the stronger Woody Allen films of the last 20 years. There are, I submit, three main phases of Allen’s iconic career as a director. First came... (Continue reading)

Movie review: X-Men First Class

Written on 7 Jun, 2011 in Discovered, Featured | 4 comments

By MIRANDA FORESMAN Prequels have a reputation for being less than satisfying. After all, who goes back and reads the prologue after reading through the book? The allure for X-Men: First Class is not solely the story but more so... (Continue reading)

Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean 4

Written on 22 May, 2011 in Discovered | 7 comments

BY MIRANDA FORESMAN Johnny Depp may never play anyone else as well as he does Jack Sparrow. Captain Jack Sparrow, to be precise. In Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, he does what only Depp can do: make a... (Continue reading)

Movie Review: Win Win

Written on 10 May, 2011 in Discovered | No comments

BY MIRANDA FORESMAN Have you ever decided to see a film after seeing its trailer, hoping against hope that the movie itself holds even better material than those clips released in the promo? Win Win actually gives you those golden... (Continue reading)

Movie Review: I Am

Written on 26 Apr, 2011 in Discovered, Featured | One comment

BY MIRANDA FORESMAN From the mastermind behind such comedies as Ace Ventura, Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty comes the documentary film I Am, which directs each of us to do our part at not making the future a detestable wreck... (Continue reading)

Movie Review: The Lincoln Lawyer delivers

Written on 20 Apr, 2011 in Discovered | No comments

BY MIRANDA FORESMAN The Lincoln Lawyer, starring Matthew McConaughey as  the slick Mick Haller, is a legal thriller centered around a trial lawyer who faces off with a client that challenges his balance of legal obligation, moral composition, and basic... (Continue reading)

Movie Review: Please Give

Written on 19 Jun, 2010 in Discovered | One comment

  By DAVID CONGALTON Boy, you think living in San Luis Obispo is expensive, try New York City real estate. Kate (Catherine Keener) and Alex (Oliver Platt) have already bought the apartment of their 91-year-old next door neighbor Andra (Ann... (Continue reading)

Movie Review: Crazy Heart

Written on 14 Feb, 2010 in Discovered | No comments

BY DAVID CONGALTON You have seen this movie before. Many times. In some ways, “Crazy Heart” is the cinematic twin of last year’s “The Wrestler.” Stop me if you’ve heard this one before—aging former wrestling/country music legend hits rock bottom... (Continue reading)

Movie review: Sherlock Holmes

Written on 29 Dec, 2009 in Discovered | 4 comments

BY ADI JONES The new ‘Sherlock Holmes’ is a truly modern adaptation that derives very little from the original master sleuth. Robert Downey, Jr. plays a sharp-minded, genuinely clever, Holmes who dabbles in boxing and alcohol with equal gusto. Jude Law... (Continue reading)