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Ghost Rider (2007, Mark Steven Johnson), the extended cut
Watching former–I don’t know, he wasn’t really an indie, so something like pre-hipster hipster–wunderkind Wes Bentley in material like this movie (where he finally finds his appropriate level,...
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Moneyball (2011, Bennett Miller)
Moneyball is the traditional American sports movie with all the excitement sucked out of the accomplishment. The excitement isn’t gone because of the story–about how the Oakland A’s applied a...
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Drive Angry (2011, Patrick Lussier)
Drive Angry is T2 with a supernatural bent. It’s like Lussier wanted to make a 3D Terminator movie, couldn’t, and came found a way to make it possible to do most of the action scenes of one. Actually,...
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The Sitter (2011, David Gordon Green)
It’s somewhat shocking, given Jonah Hill’s presence and David Gordon Green directing, The Sitter is such a mess. Would a remake of Adventures in Babysitting with a listless college dropout in the lead...
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Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991, Rachel Talalay), the home video...
For the first third of Freddy’s Dead, I blamed Lisa Zane’s bad performance on Talalay’s truly awful direction and Michael De Luca’s lame, if enthusiastic, screenplay. During the middle third, when the...
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