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TV Review: The Walking Dead – 3.05 – Say The Word (SPOILERS)
So far season three of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” has been the most consistent, intense one of the bunch. We’ve had more action, zombies, tension, and blood than the first two seasons combined. In...
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New on DVD/Blu-ray: Brave (2012)
Pixar’s newest release “Brave” is a story about a princess cut from a different cloth than we’re used to seeing. Not since “Mulan” and “Pocahontas” have we had such a strong female protagonist willing...
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Don’t Click (2012) Movie Review
Some 14 years after Sadako crawled from the television set, the influence of Hideo Nakata’s classic “Ringu” is still very much in evidence in the Asian horror genre. New Korean shocker “Don’t Click” is...
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Skyfall (2012) Movie Review
With “Casino Royale”, Daniel Craig stepped up and owned the living hell out of the role of James Bond. After Pierce Brosnan’s turn as the iconic British spy, which never felt like much more...
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I Miss U (2012) Movie Review
Despite its title, “I Miss U” is actually a Thai horror film, albeit one with a decidedly romantic and wistful bent, director Monthon Arayangkoon, combining the love story of his 2010 “Big Boy” with...
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New On Blu-Ray/DVD: Maximum Conviction (2012)
I’m a huge Steven Seagal fan, and have been for most of my life at this point. Films like “Out For Justice”, “Under Siege”, and “Hard to Kill” rank among my all-time favorites, and...
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TV Review: The Walking Dead – 3.04 – The Killer Within (SPOILERS)
THIS REVIEW OF LAST NIGHT’S “THE WALKING DEAD”, EPISODE 3.4, “THE KILLER WITHIN”, CONTAINS SPOILERS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Oh, T-Dog, we hardly knew ye. Well that’s not true. We knew you were on...
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The Man with the Iron Fists (2012) Movie Review
If you’ve ever heard a Wu-Tang Clan album, watched a classic Shaw Brothers martial arts flick, or a Spaghetti Western and enjoyed it then “The Man With the Iron Fists” is for you. Throw...
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New on DVD/Blu-ray: The Campaign (2012)
Just in time for Election Day (or close enough), comes the new comedy from Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis that gets to the very heart of what makes American politics such a mess, “The...
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Flight (2012) Movie Review
“Flight” is less a movie about a plane crash, as you’ve been led to believe, than it is about a man facing off with his own personal demons. In this story those demons take...
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Wreck-It Ralph (2012) Movie Review
“Wreck-It Ralph”, the new animated feature from Disney, delivers exactly what you expect, nothing more. That isn’t to say it’s bad. In a vacuum this is a fun enough movie, the visuals are good...
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The Bay (2012) Movie Review
Going into Barry Levinson’s new horror film, “The Bay”, you get the feeling that it could either be something really special, or fall flat on its face. The concept is certainly strong enough. A...
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Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) Movie Review
Ever wondered what would happen if someone decided to let, say Rob Zombie direct a “Universal Soldier” movie? Well wonder no more, kids — it would look something like “Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning”,...
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The Cases (2012) Movie Review
Documentaries about the sinister and spooky have long been popular in Hong Kong and Chinese cinema, from back in the 1980s through to the present day, most recently seen in the sadly rather lacklustre...
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Cloud Atlas (2012) Movie Review
Everything about “Cloud Atlas”—the latest film from “The Matrix” helmers the Wachowskis and “Run Lola Run” director Tom Tykwer—is big. The film has a big cast—both in name and number—big ideas, big scope, big...
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New on Blu-ray: Blade Runner 30th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
You can’t possibly call yourself a sci-fi fan if you do not worship at the altar of Ridley Scott’s 1982 seminal masterpiece “Blade Runner”. God knows every other sci-fi writer/director that have come after...
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New on DVD/Blu-ray: Magic Mike (2012)
Hunky hunks Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer, and Joe Manganiello take it all off (and then some) in the male stripper movie “Magic Mike”, the male stripper movie with a heart...
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Nightmare (2012) Movie Review
The last few years have been an interesting time for the horror genre in Chinese cinema, with film makers venturing more and more into the realms of the sinister, while being held back by...
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Film Shots: Storage 24, We Are the Night, and My Ex
STORAGE 24 (2012) Prolific British writer, director, actor and more Noel Clarke returns in his 4th film of 2012, science fiction horror thriller “Storage 24”, directed by Johannes Roberts, helmer of a variety of...
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New on Blu-ray: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)/Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
With October 31st looming large on the calendar, it’s a very appropriate time indeed to revisit “Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers” and follow up “Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers”, a...
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