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Real Steel Blu-ray
01/21/2012
In theory ‘Rocky with robots’ sounds awful, doesn’t it? In fact, most of Shawn Levy’s directorial output – ‘A museum where the exhibits come to life,’ ‘The Pink Panther starring someone who isn’t Peter Sellars,’ – sounds pretty awful in theory, and most of it ends up being pretty awful in practice, we’re sorry to say. Yet despite being shamelessly sentimental, wildly overwritten, and going out of its way to fist-bump every sports movie and estranged father-son cliché in the known universe, Real Steel is simply impossible not to enjoy, with even the stoniest of hearts likely to exit the theater bursting with optimism and punch-drunk on redemption.
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I Don't Know How She Does It Blu-ray
01/16/2012
Were it not based on a pre-existing, best-selling novel, you might be forgiven for wondering if the title of this frankly insidious movie were a not-so-subtle dig at its leading lady’s career. Outside of the role of Sex and the City’s love starved fashionista Sarah Jessica Parker has consistently failed to pack them in to either the multiplex or the sofa, and yet continues to show up as top-billing in one insipid, vanilla rom-com after another. Case in point, this frankly terrible adaptation of author Allison Pearson’s post-feminist take on motherhood in the new millennium, in which Ms.
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Fright Night Blu-ray
01/15/2012
Remember when vampires were brutal creatures of the dark, and didn’t fall in love with moody teenage humans, and when exposed to sunlight they burst into flames rather than sparkle like precious gods? Remember when horror movies were equal parts scary and funny - and weren’t all presented to us as if shot on handheld cameras. Well, director, Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl, United States of Tara), does and Fright Night is better for it. His remake of the 1985 cult favorite is an exercise genre, reveling in the gore, sexiness, and humor all too absent from horror these days.
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The Help Blu-ray
12/19/2011
If you haven’t heard already, there’s been quite a bit of controversy surrounding The Help. The movie, written and directed by green-behind-the-ears Tate Taylor and adapted from the popular novel of the same name by Kathryn Stockett, has received criticism for the way it deals with the Civil Rights Movement in 1960’s Mississippi. Detractors will say that the film depicts African-Americans as, ironically, helpless archetypical stereotypes dependent on the socially conscious white girl for a voice.
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Cowboys & Aliens Blu-ray
12/12/2011
When George Lucas merged the genres of sci-fi and Western in a little cinematic venture called Star Wars, it became clear that he was onto something. He managed to draw out the subtleties in the genres, lace them together to support a coherent narrative that gently moved the plot along, and relegate the heavy-handed trappings of the loaded motifs themselves to the backdrop of his story. While no one will ever accuse me of being the biggest George Lucas fan on the face of the planet, I happily recognize that he possesses an understanding of metaphor and even an occasional appreciation for subtlety.
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City of God Blu-ray
12/12/2011
Almost a decade on, City of God remains an uncomfortable and unflinching descent into the hellish underbelly of Rio de Janeiro, a world that is as far from the picture postcard image the rest of the world sees as can be. Fernando Meirelles’ 2002 picture charts the parallel lives of several children from one of Brazil's many favelas – shanty towns on the edge of cities where people eek out a meager existence in abject poverty. The story is told from the point of view of Rocket, a young boy with no taste for hoodlum life and ambition to one day become a photographer.
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