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My Experience with Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’

Addendum: A few people have brought up the legitimate question of why I went to see The Hobbit in the first place. The answer is that it was a professional-obligation thing: I record a weekly podcast, The Film Stage Show, … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘Side by Side’

Director: Christopher Kenneally | Writer: Christopher Kenneally | Cast: Danny Boyle, James Cameron, Lena Dunham, David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, Wally Pfister, Keanu Reeves, Robert Rodriguez, Martin Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh | Rating: NR | Runtime: 99 minutes | Year (U.S. release): … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

Director: Christopher Nolan | Writers: Bob Kane (characters), Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan | Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Marion Cotillard, Morgan Freeman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Gary Oldman | Rating: PG-13 | Runtime: 164 minutes | Year (U.S. … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’

Director: Marc Webb | Writers: Steve Kloves, Alvin Sargent, James Vanderbilt | Cast: Sally Field, Andrew Garfield, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, Emma Stone | Rating: PG-13 | Rumtime: 136 minutes | Year (U.S. release): 2012 | My issue … Continue reading

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Movie Review: ‘Headhunters’

Director: Morten Tyldum | Writers: Lars Gudmestad, Jo Nesbø (novel), Ulf Ryberg | Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Eivind Sander | Rating: R | Runtime: 100 minutes | Year: 2012 | The stimulating hook of Morten Tyldum’s … Continue reading

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Third Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

“Hope is lost. Faith is broken. A fire will rise.” Pretty optimistic stuff, eh? Warner Bros. has officially unveiled the third and final trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises via their YouTube channel — a quite-welcome surprise for … Continue reading

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Overlooked Performances: Chris Evans, ‘Puncture’

Chris Evans is probably too high-profile an actor — especially after the $368 million-grossing Captain America: The First Avenger — to be considered for any “breakthrough performance”-type awards this time of the season, but, for my money, that’s one of … Continue reading

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