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Alice in Wonderland – Film Review

Posted on05. Mar, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist
A few years ago I would have described Tim Burton and Alice in Wonderland as a perfect pairing of director and material; even without intimate familiarity with the source material, his pedigree as a purveyor of mainstream fantasy is largely unrivaled, and there’s no doubt his visual sense could reinvigorate (if not fully [...]

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The Crazies – Film Review

Posted on26. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist
The thing about zombie movies is that I really don’t care at all why people become zombies. That is the least important and, at a certain point, least interesting part of the plot of any movie featuring undead, deeply sick, ravenous, violent monsters. However, the fact that The Crazies tries to come up [...]

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Cop Out – Film Review

Posted on26. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist
After spending almost two decades giving Kevin Smith the benefit of the doubt, it’s hard to refute the seemingly obvious truth that he just isn’t a good director. Not only is he not much of a visual stylist, he doesn’t have any flair for storytelling, and almost none of his films have any [...]

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The Ghost Writer – Film Review

Posted on19. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist
“Forget about it, Jake, it’s the CIA.” Perhaps needless to say, this isn’t actually a line from The Ghost Writer, but Roman Polanski’s latest film shares much in common with his 1974 masterpiece Chinatown, not the least of which being a resignation to the larger, impenetrable machinations of a system that was in [...]

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Shutter Island – Film Review

Posted on19. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist
Martin Scorsese is the filmmaker who maybe more than any in the medium’s history brought cinephilia to the mainstream, and it’s this enormous legacy of inspiration, influence, and cinematic subtext that he has embedded in his body of work which makes Shutter Island so hard to talk about. Superficially about a U.S. Marshal [...]

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Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief – Film Review

Posted on12. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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If one wanted proof of the entertainment world’s complete and total lack of original ideas, they need look no further than Percy Jackson & The Olympians. A copy of the Harry Potter series so shameless that it even features Chris Columbus, the same director who shepherded J.K. Rowling’s character to the screen, there’s not one [...]

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Valentine’s Day – Film Review

Posted on12. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist
The new romantic comedy Valentine’s Day has everything – that is, except for characters and a plot. Overstuffed with star wattage and storytelling clichés but not one single idea of substance, Gary Marshall’s film only needed to be this February’s He’s Just Not That Into You, and it couldn’t even be that. Rather, [...]

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The Wolfman – Film Review

Posted on10. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist
In the parlance of 19th Century England, the time and place in which the film is set, “The Wolfman” is a little bit like a mouthful of wooden teeth: Technically it gets the job done, but to even the untrained eye, it’s not a convincing substitute for something real. In an effort to [...]

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Glee’s Chris Colfer – A Notch Above Casual

Posted on22. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Amber Hubert
photos by Robert Todd Williamson
styled by Jenny Ricker
groomed by Jenn Streicher
art direction by Laura Ann
Chris Colfer doesn’t want to disappoint his fans but unlike the lovable and fashionably adventurous character Kurt he plays on Fox’s hit show Glee, he won’t be caught parading around town in a translucent Dolce and Gabbana raincoat. It’s [...]

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Fish Tank – Film Review

Posted on19. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Brent Simon
Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winner Fish Tank, from British writer-director Andrea Arnold, is a gritty, naturalistic drama that will slowly envelop patient arthouse audiences on the strength of its powerhouse performances. A slice of social realism in the vein of Ken Loach, this slow-boil, Essex-set tale of teen alienation and acting out [...]

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