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Movie Review: Sound of My Voice

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Friends Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling wrote Sound of My Voice as a reaction to the shock they had felt moving to Southern California.  We’ve all heard about how everyone seems to be searching for something in the bright Cali sun, and here, in Sound of My Voice, is a breathtaking look at how far some people will go to belong to something.  Utterly mesmerizing and beautifully acted, this is a hauntingly brilliant film that leaves you with more questions than answers.  Instead of tying things up with a bow, Sound of My Voice lets you draw your own conclusions; a brave piece of filmmaking that stands out among most of today’s cookie-cutter productions.  This is the movie Martha Marcy May Marlene wanted to be but just missed.

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No Mother’s Day Weekend plans? The Artist is re-releasing this weekend!

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It’s already Tuesday.  Flowers die, your mom is trying a new health kick so chocolate is out.  What to do?  Well, you could take her to the movies (or treat yourself, if she’s too far or she’s you)….  In fact, it’s a great time to head out to the multiplex, as The Weinstein Company is re-releasing their Oscar smash, The Artist!

Here in the Baltimore area you can catch The Artist this weekend at these theaters:
* AMC Owings Mills 14
*  The Annapolis Mall 11 Cinema
*  Eastpoint Movies 10

Read on for more info from The Weinstein Company!

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Take a peek at the Chernobyl Diaries

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Chernobyl.  Like Three Mile Island, only a thousand times worse.  Even 25 years later, the area in and around Chernobyl is “unsound”.  Sounds like the perfect vacay spot!

If you just read that and thought “not for a million bucks”, you’re a heck of a lot more intelligent than the characters in Chernobyl Diaries, the latest film from Paranormal Activity‘s Oren Peli.  Read on to see an advance pic from the film!

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Free comics? Free Comic Book Day this Saturday!

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Mmm, comics.  I love ’em, but I also love being able to pay my mortgage.  But on one day out of the year, I get to indulge in my need to roll around on a bed full of comic books (yeah, like you never had that fantasy)…Free Comic Book Day!

This year it’s May 5th, and to celebrate, Cards Comics and Collectibles (the folks that sponsor the Baltimore Comic-Con, don’cha know) are planning to throw down.  Why?  Because it’s Free Comic Book Day, and because it’s the opening weekend of Marvel’s The Avengers.  Two treats in one, y’all.

What’s in store?  Well, from their press release it sounds awesome.  Take a peek….

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Movie Review: The Raven

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“The Black Cat”. “Premature Burial”. “The Cask of Amontillado”. “The Raven”. And now, The Raven, starring Edgar Allan Poe? You betcha. If Poe was the father of the modern detective story, then The Raven is a film that does the old boy justice. It’s a horror film that feels like a police procedural with a love story thrown in. It isn’t the easiest movie to classify, but all the better. The Raven is fun thrill ride of a movie. Thrilling, edge-of-my-seat stuff, and it’s a movie I can heartily recommend.

It’s 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland. A woman and her young daughter are found viciously murdered…but the police are stumped when it’s found that all the doors and windows were locked from the inside. How was it done? One policeman decides that the murders echo those of a story he’d read by a Mr. Edgar Allan Poe. So Detective Fields, a man who is as close to forensics as one could be in 1849, decides to ask Poe for his “special knowledge” in the hopes that the murders can be solved. But these killings are only the beginning, and soon Fields, Poe and the whole of nineteenth century Baltimore are caught in the trap of a twisted but brilliant killer.

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Towson rolls out the red carpet for Crooked Arrows

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Hey, you know how Terps lacrosse tend to really kick some serious…crosse?  (What; I’m a Terp!  Hey, it’s better than saying balls, right?)  Well, you also knew that lacrosse has it’s origins in Native American sports, yes?  No?  Well, it’s time to get schooled and walk the red carpet at the premiere of Crooked Arrows.  Yes, you.  Red carpet.  Pulling the Jolie leg.  Or whatever pose strikes your fancy.

Wanna know where to get your opening night action?  Read on….

 

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10 minutes of The Hobbit screened at CinemaCon

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My childhood dream of owning a movie theater was probably the one I should have gone with.  Because if I did, I could have hit CinemaCon, the yearly convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO — nice acronym, that.)  And if I’d been at CinemaCon, I could have seen a full 10 minutes of Peter Jackson’s latest opus, The Hobbit.

Mmm, hobbitses.

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Jackie Robinson gets a new biofilm with “42”

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Ever seen The Jackie Robinson Story?  No?  Well, that film came out in 1950, so unless you’ve got a DVD copy (or a Netflix DVD subscription), it’s no wonder.  But next year 42, the story of the very first African-American player in Major League Baseball (MLB) will be coming to a theater near you.  And if the press release is any indication, this film is sure to be a fitting tribute.  And we can probably thank Moneyball and it’s Academy Award nods for helping to bring this story back to celluloid.

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John Cusack gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

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Seems that the opening weekend of a much talked-about new movie isn’t the only thing John Cusack is celebrating this week.  Yesterday, Cusack celebrated a bit of immortality by getting his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  It’s the 2,469th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for those of you keeping count.

Can’t help but wonder if he hefted a boombox during the ceremony….

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