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Movie Review — Anonymous

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“To see Anonymous or not to see Anonymous: that is the question“…no.
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to speak about Anonymous“…and, no.
“Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by Anonymous“…oh God, no.

Oh bugger.  The course of true critique never did run smooth, and I’m no Shakespeare.  So let me just say, in my own words, that Anonymous is the official starting bell for the Oscar race this year.  It’s a wild and crazy, swords and swagger, love and lust look at how Shakespeare maybe-coulda-possibly come up with all those wonderful plays, sonnets and poems.  And the movie is wonderful itsownself; it’s as dazzling a story as anything Shakespeare could have come up with.  Huzzah!


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Movie Review: In Time

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Forget Logan’s Run, where the state kills you off at age 30 and you leave a pretty corpse.  In the world of In Time, you stop aging at age 25.  Not to shabby, right?  Unfortunately, you’re dead by 26, unless you’re able to “earn” a longer life.  Salaries, interest rates, food and shelter, all are measured out by seconds, minutes, hours…and for the wealthy that can afford it, months and years.  (Suddenly my latte addiction seems unimportant.  “Caffeine will take years off your life”,  indeed.)  So the wealthy can live forever, while the poor are reduced to living in ghettos and running everywhere to save what little time they have.  And hey, wouldn’t you want to live forever if you looked like Justin Timberlake or Amanda Seyfried?

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Movie Review: Take Shelter

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Ever since the world began it seems there have been people telling us that the end times are a’coming.  Nowadays we laugh them off as quacks, or chalk it up to a brain disorder.  But what if the visions of earth’s fiery doom are happening to you?  How could you tell if you’re slipping away from reality, or the 21st Century’s Noah?  Take Shelter is a look at one man’s balancing act between insanity and prophecy, and it’s quite simply an amazing piece of work.


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Movie Review: Paranormal Activity 3

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Once upon a time, there were two little girls.  They lived in a big house with Mommy, Step-daddy and their own pet demon.  Except the demon wasn’t really a pet.  And things didn’t end up Happily Ever After.  The tagline for Paranormal Activity 3 is “Discover how the activity began”.  And damn if they don’t show you.  Vividly.  Fasten your seat belts kiddies, it’s gonna be a bumpy night.

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Movie Review: Footloose

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Okay, let’s get this straight right now; I liked this movie.  No seriously, I did.  Had a great time, laughed out loud, bounced in my seat.  And I’m not ashamed.  In a world where someone can come along, remake a movie that never needed to be remade…and actually do it justice?  Well then, there’s enough room for both films in that happy, shiny world.  Anybody thinking the director of Hustle and Flow would grab the wheel of this remake and cock it up has another thing coming.  A fun, bouncy, dance-y thing.

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