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Finding Nemo: Beyond the Sea
Sea it. One of the best films of 2003 was animated and primarily targeted at kids. That may lead some to think less of it, but it is a piece of art that should charm anyone who sits through it....
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Intolerable Cruelty
ENGAGE THE ENEMY. The best divorce lawyer (George Clooney) in Los Angeles is hired by a philandering husband, and his wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) aims to destroy them both. The Coen brothers reunited...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Damned For All Time
PREPARE TO BE BLOWN OUT OF THE WATER. One of the most tiresome ideas of the 1990s was turning video games into movies. How many of those worthless adaptations have we been forced to suffer through?...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Will and Elizabeth (Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley) are about to marry when suddenly they find themselves facing the death penalty and once again getting mixed up with Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny...
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Lantana: Everybody Hurts
LOVE IS THE GREATEST MYSTERY. This film has been marketed as the new Short Cuts, and there’s some truth in that. This is another one of those grand movies with a sprawling cast of characters who are...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
AT THE END OF THE WORLD, THE ADVENTURE BEGINS. Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is rescued from limbo, but our heroes have dangerous enemies to fight in order to preserve a future for the pirates of...
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The King’s Speech: Royal Pains
IT TAKES LEADERSHIP TO CONFRONT A NATION’S FEAR. IT TAKES FRIENDSHIP TO CONQUER YOUR OWN. After watching this brilliant drama, I knew I had to consult YouTube for the speech King George VI made after...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
On a quest to find the fountain of youth, Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) contends with an old enemy (Geoffrey Rush), an old lover (Penélope Cruz)… and the fearsome Blackbeard (Ian McShane). The...
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Green Lantern
In our darkest hour, there will be light. Test pilot Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) is “chosen” by a ring brought to Earth by an alien to become a Green Lantern, an intergalactic “cop” with superpowers....
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The Book Thief
COURAGE BEYOND WORDS. In 1938, young Liesel (Sophie Nélisse) arrives in a small German town as a foster child; within short, her new family is harboring a young Jewish man (Ben Schnetzer) on the run…...
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age
WOMAN. WARRIOR. QUEEN. In the 1590s, Queen Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) is attracted to a dashing pirate, Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen), but England is under threat from the Spanish King and his armada....
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Elizabeth: The Golden Cage
DECLARED ILLEGITIMATE AGED 3. TRIED FOR TREASON AGED 21. CROWNED QUEEN AGED 25. The opening credits are thunderous and intimidating, suggesting that this is perhaps a horror movie. They are followed by...
View ArticleMinions
BEFORE GRU, THEY HAD A HISTORY OF BAD BOSSES. After two Despicable Me films, we got a spin-off focusing on the lovable minions, their history of supporting villains through the ages and how they ended...
View ArticleHollywood Stars in Super Bowl Ads 2017
With an authoritarian man in the White House, it was unavoidable that this year’s Super Bowl ads would be political. There were also plenty of movie and TV trailers, but few of them offered any real...
View ArticleLegend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
ON HIS WAY TO FINDING A LEGEND… HE WILL BECOME ONE. Two young barn owls are kidnapped by other owls and later held as slaves by the evil Pure Ones; however, they are about to learn that the mythical...
View ArticlePirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), who’s being chased by an undead pirate hunter (Javier Bardem), joins forces with the son (Brenton Thwaites) of Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) in the search for the Trident of...
View ArticleQuills
THERE ARE NO BAD WORDS… ONLY BAD DEEDS. The infamous Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush) is locked up in the Charenton asylum, but still manages to get his pornographic books printed by way of a laundress...
View ArticleGods of Egypt
ALL OF CREATION IS AT STAKE. In a different Egypt many years ago, a young, enslaved thief (Brenton Thwaites) meets the defeated god Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and tries to help him get back at his...
View ArticleHouse on Haunted Hill
EVIL LOVES TO PARTY. Steven Price (Geoffrey Rush), who got rich designing horror rides for theme parks, invites several people to spend the night at an old house in Los Angeles that was once used as an...
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