July 2012

This isn’t an objective documentary. It’s packaged with a short fictional film, and all of the band’s videos. As an official band doc, Bring On the Mountain is a slightly glossy production, rather than a “warts and all” affair.

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Ice Age: Continental Drift is the fourth computer-animated movie in 10 years from Blue Sky Studios to feature four prehistoric mammals. Like its predecessors, it falls neatly in the creatively bereft category of what I like to call “talking animal movies.”

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If the world does indeed decide to up and end due to the Rapture, rogue asteroid, super volcano or just a planet that comes out of nowhere (thanks for showing me the light, Lars Von Trier) – I hope they show movies in the afterlife, because that’s the only way I’m going to be able to see the top films on this list:

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Humor and romance play a big part in the breezy yet tense The 39 Steps and the mistaken-identity/conspiracy plot and flirtatious nature of the lead character would also later be used to great effect by Hitchcock in ‘North by Northwest’ with Cary Grant.

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Two comedies that were big hits at the box office have made their way to DVD and Blu-ray and you may want to check them out.

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The overall result of ‘To Rome with Love’ is a funny film whose contrivances make no excuses for themselves, and whose jokes have a substance that a viewer could ponder for sometime after leaving the theatre.

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It’s been awfully fucking hot in the U.S. as of late, so it seems altogether appropriate that a list detailing the driest, most parched moments in cinema history be offered up this day.

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It’s a testament to how good the movie is that ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ elicits any kind of emotion at all.

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Arguably, the insular nature of Spokane, Washington — isolated as it was — is what the music-scene documentary SpokAnarchy! is attempting to represent and reproduce. Unfortunately, it comes off as being a tale of people you’ve never heard of, referencing people with whom they’re familiar, but you’re not.

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