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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Movie Review
As we’ve seen with so-called "Reality TV" competitions like Survivor and The Amazing Race, producers often have to re-jig the rules of their own games in order to maintain the interest of their...
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Philomena Movie Review
We think of “holiday movies” as tales of families coming together. Philomena is most definitely not a holiday movie, but its portrayal of a family torn apart and a search for answers warms the heart...
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Dallas Buyers Club Movie Review
I’ve long been of the opinion that Matthew McConaughey is one of Hollywood’s most underrated actors. Variously dismissed as a dim-witted pretty-boy or a shirtless, bongo-playing surfer – images that...
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Movie Review
It’s almost a shame that human nature finds comfort in threes. The modern trend toward telling stories in trilogies seems to ignore the fact that some of them benefit from simplicity and compression....
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The Wolf of Wall Street Movie Review
Director Martin Scorsese is arguably best known for his Mafia films, where often penniless youths become made men, get rich, and then try to escape the law. The Wolf of Wall Street, Scorsese’s fifth...
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American Hustle Movie Review
At first, American Hustle seems like a no-brainer: a period piece about con-artists, written, directed and starring a powerhouse group of Oscar-nominated (and Oscar-winning) filmmakers, with...
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Movie Review
2004′s Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy has become such a comedy cult classic that it’s now hard to remember it didn’t play well at the box office when it first opened. Anchorman 2: The Legend...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Movie Review
In 1939, The New Yorker magazine published The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a short story by James Thurber. In the story, Mitty passes through a day of errands in the city with his wife, while random...
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Jack Ryan – Shadow Recruit Movie Review
Among his more interesting challenges in the past few years, actor Chris Pine has successfully filled the boots of William Shatner in the re-imagined Star Trek franchise. Can he now do the same as Jack...
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Her Movie Review
We smartphone users are obsessed with our devices, so it seemed inevitable for someone like writer-director Spike Jonze to bring us a movie about a man who literally falls in love with his. It seems...
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