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Pain and Gain
Crime doesn’t pay. Director Michael Bay goes the distance to remind audiences of that necessary lesson because it also gives him the opportunity to glorify and glamorize every ugly facet of it. Sitting through Pain and Gain, an alleged black comedy that exposes the danger of American greed, I’m left to contend that the writers […]
Snow White and the Huntsman
Snow White and the Huntsman is grimmest of them all. Newcomer Director Rupert Sanders strips down the cotton candy versions of ‘Snow White’ from the Disney classic to this year’s earlier Mirror Mirror, and turns his goth fantasy into a twisted spiraling opus of somber melancholy. I was intrigued by the idea and swayed by […]
The Hurt Locker
Here is the sharp, intelligent action-thriller audiences have been craving and probably missed. Why the studio opted to keep this one in limited release is beyond me. “The Hurt Locker,” directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, Strange Days), could’ve broken the stigma on Iraq-war films and, with some solid marketing behind it, may have easily […]
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