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  • Review: ‘The Other Guys’

    The fourth offering from the comedy team of Will Farrell (star) and Adam McKay (director, writer), The Other Guys doesn’t reach the zany heights of their earlier hits Anchorman: The Legend…

  • Review: ‘The Disappearance of Alice Creed’

    The Disappearance of Alice Creed is a twisty, provocative British thriller featuring a breakout performance from Gemma Arterton. You may have caught her in the recent popcorn flicks Prince of Persia or…

  • Twitter is Now Officially a Film Critic

    Way back in October of 2009 I wrote an article entitled “Is Twitter the New Film Critic?”  I now know the answer to that question is “yes.” My theory was that…

  • War Movie Mondays: ‘Red Dawn’

    Red Dawn is the ultimate “what if” Cold War movie. Set some time in the mid alternate 1980’s, Red Dawn depicts a world which has fast been assimilated into the sphere…

  • Review: ‘Joan Rivers: Piece of Work’

    In the previous millennium, when I was an idealistic young thing attending Barnard College, the women’s college affiliated with Columbia University, there was a lot of talk about who before us…

  • Indie Review: ‘The Kids Are All Right’

    The Kids Are All Right opens with shots of 18-year-old Joni (a wonderful Mia Wasikowska) playing scrabble with friends and 15-year-old Laser (Josh Hutcherson) sniffing a crushed Sudafed with his skateboarding…

  • Review: ‘Dinner For Schmucks’

    What ultimately surprised me about this comedy is how sweet it is underneath the prickly premise. Based on a more scathing French film called The Dinner Game (1998), this Dinner has been toned…