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Film

  • Big-Screen Crime

    By on May 14, 2010

    Robin Hood and Little John walkin' through the forest … oo-de-lally, oo-de-lally, golly what a bore! A great deal of nostalgia will be felt for...

  • Iron Fortified

    By on May 5, 2010

    When Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) takes the stage at an Expo at the beginning of Iron Man 2, he does so in a manner...

  • Death Match

    By on April 21, 2010

    Can a British black comedy about a family successfully translate to an American comedy about a black family? Bloody hell, yeah! In 2007, the Frank...

  • Heroic Deeds

    By on April 15, 2010

    The least offensive thing about Kick-Ass is its title. The most offensive? That's way too hard to pinpoint. Kick-Ass is flat-out, balls-to-the-wall funny. Now, if...

  • Jett Lag

    By on April 7, 2010

    In a very odd way, it's almost as if Kristen Stewart was born to play rocker Joan Jett. The slightly stoned look of ambivalence and...

  • Gods Forsaken

    By on March 31, 2010

    ''Just accept it.'' That's the advice given to Perseus when he discovers a sword from the gods in the forest. There's no good explanation for...

  • Son Dance

    By on March 10, 2010

    Sometimes things don't turn out the way you expect. Sometimes the high school quarterback grows up and transitions into a woman. Sometimes an orphan discovers...

  • Small Wonder

    By on March 4, 2010

    Once upon a time there was a young director named Tim Burton, and he created wonderfully bizarre and macabre worlds populated by a boy with...

  • Easy Pickings

    By on March 4, 2010

    Most of the Oscar winners this year are sure-things. There, I did it. All of my Oscar picks for the year are cursed and I'm...

  • Mystery Man

    By on February 24, 2010

    There are so many mysteries on the island that it feels like you're never going to get any answers. Is there a safe way off?...

  • Mysterious Island

    By on February 17, 2010

    There are so many mysteries on the island, it feels like you're never going to get any answers. Is there a way off the island?...

  • Love Lies Bleeding

    By on February 10, 2010

    Cupid! Hey, Cupid! Come over here and shoot me. Right through my eye, please, because it would be less painful than having to watch Garry...

  • Broken Bones

    By on January 14, 2010

    There's a sweetness to Alice Sebold's 2002 mega-bestseller The Lovely Bones that belies the story of a young girl's brutal rape and killing. That same...

  • Hormonal Activity

    By on January 7, 2010

    The average (sex) teenaged boy thinks (sex) about sex (sex) every seven seconds (sex). While this might be an old wives' tale, you wouldn't know...

  • Sleuthing Around

    By on December 24, 2009

    ''Elementary, my dear Watson.'' If you just became indignant about the fact that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never wrote that famous line, you will likely...