‘Cloud Atlas’ is an overly constructed sprawl of a film that lacks affect because of its flat characters and its fixation with dumbed-down philosophy.
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Alex Cross is a bad movie that aspires to be a mediocre movie, only to fail even at that modest goal — in spectacular fashion.
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Butter carving most places would be considered kitsch art, but at the Iowa State Fair, it’s as serious as it comes.
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‘Sinister’ is part psychological horror, part ghost story, and part subversion of the entire found-footage concept.
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A lot of young people get punished for letting their prurient interests get the better of them in V/H/S, a new horror anthology that gives six up-and-coming indie filmmakers and filmmaking teams a chance to put their spin on the found-footage horror subgenre.
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Written and directed by Stephen Chbosky, who adapted his own novel of the same name for the film, The Perks of Being a Wallflower centers around Charlie (Logan Lerman), an awkward, introverted high school freshman who has seen too much pain in his young life.
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The main draw of ‘The Oranges’ is it’s cast, and if all six of its main actors weren’t so inarguably appealing then this film just wouldn’t work.
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Frankenweenie ultimately proves that Burton was right to resurrect the project. You will believe a dog can fry.
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Mike Birbiglia, a stand-up comedian and frequent contributor to the outstanding radio program This American Life, adapts his autobiographical one-man show (which has been excerpted on THA) and 2010 novel Sleepwalk with Me and Other Painfully True Stories into a movie with one really great idea.
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All of the stories and line-up changes and drugs and alcohol abuse are recounted in My Career As A Jerk, and with minimal glossing-over.
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Fantastic Fest 2012 in Austin, TX just finished up and these are capsule reviews of ‘Vanishing Waves, ‘I Declare War,’ and ‘Crave,’ three of the biggest award winners.
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Cashing in on the success of Glee, Pitch Perfect takes viewers on the wacky ride of competitive a capella competition.
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Although Hotel Transylvania isn’t Tartakovsky’s creation, you can certainly see his fingerprints all over the film in a script he helped punch-up and his influence to push the movie towards a more high-energy animation style resembling Tex Avery’s classic cartoons.
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Fantastic Fest 2012 is happening now in Austin, TX and these are capsule reviews of films I’ve seen so far.
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In the new indie documentary ‘The American Scream,’ director Michael Paul Stephenson ‘(Best Worst Movie’) profiles three home haunters at different levels of obsession in the small town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
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