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Lights, camera, action: April 2010
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Lights, camera, action. Sunday, April 18, 2010. Now that takes serious skill. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Movies are the memories of our lifetime. We need to keep them alive.". I'm a reporter with The Sanford Herald and huge film junkie. This blog serves as a means for me to combine my two primary interests: writing and arts and entertainment. View my complete profile. Blogs Worth Your Time. 8211; I think not! Making the trek to the west side. Running just to catch myself: Life at Elon.
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Lights, camera, action: October 2009
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Lights, camera, action. Monday, October 26, 2009. Not just for kids. Max, played by newcomer Max Records, feels isolated, different and lonesome, and the performances and script convey these emotions so vividly that the audience feels them right along with him. And once he gets to the land of the Wild Things, life doesn’t get any easier. He has companionship with his cuddly new friends, but the dysfunctional group has just as many problems as he does. This movie wasn’t even really marketed as child...
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Lights, camera, action: Review: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
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Lights, camera, action. Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Review: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Ah high school - those were the days. Getting lost in the feeling of first love. Having a vampire and a werewolf fight for your affection while they save you from another vampire who's trying to kill you. What, that wasn't your experience? Sure the first two films were successful, but "Eclipse" is the first of the "Twilight" films that feels deserving of a blockbuster summer release. The personal lives of Bella (Kristen St...
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Lights, camera, action: Review: Inception
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Lights, camera, action. Tuesday, July 20, 2010. When I first started reading about "Inception," the latest film from Christopher Nolan, the tagline "Your mind is the scene of the crime" was enough to pique my interest. Those eight words alone seemed to capture the essence of a great Nolan movie - complexity, intrigue, unexpected twists and turns. In a season often dominated by fun but ultimately lackluster popcorn flicks, Nolan takes the intelligent blockbuster to a new level. While trying to accomplish ...
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Lights, camera, action: The Best of 2009
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Lights, camera, action. Tuesday, January 5, 2010. The Best of 2009. After ringing in the new year, it's time to reflect back on the best movies of 2009. Before I get to my top 10, here are a few honorable mentions, starting with the best:. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Where the Wild Things Are. Now on to the best movies of the past year:. 9 Avatar and Star Trek (tie). 8 (500) Days of Summer. 7 A Serious Man. The Coen brothers’ films are never simple and straightforward in their meaning, ...
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Lights, camera, action: January 2010
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Lights, camera, action. Saturday, January 23, 2010. Extraordinary Measures" is a fairly typical tearjerker. It tells a remarkable story, but unfortunately that isn't enough to make it a remarkable film. John researches the disease tirelessly until he comes across the work of Robert Stonehill (Harrison Ford), a Nebraska-based doctor who has found a possible cure for the disease in theory but does not have the funds to test it. The directing and writing are decent, but nothing special. Ford, Fraser and...
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Lights, camera, action: September 2009
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Lights, camera, action. Friday, September 25, 2009. The latest Paul W.S. Anderson produced thriller certainly isn't without its flaws, but in a time when horror duds like "Sorority Row" and "Jennifer's Body" are gracing the screen, "Pandorum" is a breath of fresh air. Bower runs into a few other survivors, who have been fending for themselves for months while he and Payton were in hypersleep. But he also encounters something else that has the remaining survivors fearing for their lives - something th...
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Lights, camera, action: Fall movie preview
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Lights, camera, action. Monday, September 6, 2010. It's that time of year again - fall blockbusters, Oscar hopefuls and the so-so films leading up to them. Summer 2010 has amounted to a rather weak tentpole season for movies, so I was initially a little worried the same would be true of the fall. But after perusing the September-December release calendar, it seems there are several movies worth getting excited about. Below are my top five most-anticipated movies of the fall:. 4 The Town (Sept. 17). Darre...
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Lights, camera, action: March 2010
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Lights, camera, action. Sunday, March 28, 2010. The guilty pleasure of 'Hot Tub Time Machine'. Hot Tub Time Machine" is probably the most aptly-named movie since "Snakes on a Plane." You know immediately exactly what you're going to get: a hot tub that's a time machine. As a critic, I can look objectively at the "Twilight" films and say they're overly melodramatic, feature beyond unrealistic portrayals of teenage love, have shoddy screenwriting, semi-descent acting and mediocre directing at best. But...
