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Movie Heroics

Here's to you Mr. Robinson: 42 honors bravest baseball player America has ever known

By Alex Bentley

04.14.13 | 10:11 am

Making a movie about baseball/civil rights pioneer Jackie Robinson is such an obvious idea that it’s a wonder it hasn’t been done many times before. But, in fact, it’s only been d ...


Movie Time

Bruce Willis loses his Die Hard touch: Latest installment explodes into a blaze of bore

By Alex Bentley

02.15.13 | 1:09 pm

It's been 25 years since Die Hard, labeled by many as the best action movie of all time, catapulted Bruce Willis from middling success on television to movie superstardom. Since that time, many ...


Zombie-rrific

Zombies in love: Warm Bodies is unlike any romantic comedy you've ever seen

By Alex Bentley

02.02.13 | 4:44 pm

If you’re going to make a zombie-centric movie at this point, you’d better have something special. Straight-up horror movies are a dime a dozen — and now outdone by TV's  ...


All action and no creativity

Perfunctory action scenes dim the big-name stars in Gangster Squad

By Alex Bentley

01.13.13 | 3:00 pm

January is shaping up to be quite a strange month for movie releases. On one hand, you have prestige movies such as The Impossible and Zero Dark Thirty expanding into wide release after short ...


War on Terror

Fascinating and harrowing, Zero Dark Thirty deserves to be named Best Picture of the Year

By Alex Bentley

01.11.13 | 12:14 pm

It’s been a little more than 11 years since 9/11, and the film community has slowly but surely used its creative powers to depict both the events of that day and the fallout that ensued. Some ...


Hope amidst tragedy

The ultimate survival story: Great acting and depiction of tsunami make The Impossible riveting

By Alex Bentley

01.04.13 | 4:04 pm

Making films about horrific events will always be tricky. How soon is too soon? If you’re dealing with actual victims, how personal is too personal? Conversely, if you’re approaching th ...


Dream the dream

Magic of Les Misérables is lost in translation from stage to screen but theater diehards will love it

By Alex Bentley

12.26.12 | 12:53 pm

Since the dawn of the 21st century, the movie musical has been slowly but surely been making a comeback. The relative failures of films like A Chorus Line and Little Shop of Horrors in the ’8 ...


Who needs to get older?

This Is 40 is a downer, but Megan Fox — and her breasts — show comedic talent

By Alex Bentley

12.25.12 | 4:19 pm

Judd Apatow is such a ubiquitous name in comedy these days that it’s easy to forget what a Johnny-come-lately he is. Aside from a couple of one-offs in the mid ‘90s, he’s only bee ...


Bloody Christmas

Quentin Tarantino's latest, Django Unchained, is an uneasy mix of action comedy and violence

By Alex Bentley

12.25.12 | 9:00 am

Of all the A-list directors working today, Quentin Tarantino seems the least likely to have made it to that lofty spot. Yes, he has a knack for writing snappy dialogue and putting together great so ...


The return of Middle Earth

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey shares a lot with Lord of the Rings, but misses its magic

By Alex Bentley

12.14.12 | 10:12 am

In the wake of the massive success of The Lord of Rings trilogy, speculation naturally turned to if and when director Peter Jackson would adapt its prequel, The Hobbit. Nine years later, that dream ...


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