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Review: ‘Price Check’ is Good Until It Isn’t

April 17th, 2013
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Parker Posey plays a spirited executive and Eric Mabius her right hand man in Price Check, an engaging but emotionally stunted drama that unfortunately never really goes anywhere. Even as I begin this review I have no idea where it will take me, for the movie itself is, ultimately, aimless.

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Review: Is ‘Django Unchained’ Tarantino’s Best Movie?

April 16th, 2013
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When Quentin Tarantino is lurking, no genre is safe. After checking crime, kung fu, grindhouse and war movies off his list – not to mention whatever Pulp Fiction was – Quentin Tarantino turns his sights on westerns with Django Unchained. Funny, action-packed and highly entertaining, Django Unchained may not be Tarantino’s deepest of films – but it is his most accessible.

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Review: ‘Parental Guidance’ Has Guidance, Few Laughs

April 15th, 2013
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The last time Billy Crystal starred in a major live-action movie, the United States had yet to invade Iraq. The Internet bubble had just burst. And the movie in question was the unfortunate sequel Analyze That. Times have changed since then. Comedy has changed. But Billy Crystal hasn’t changed, and it shows in his new film Parental Guidance, now on DVD and Blu-ray.

Read FilmJabber’s full Parental Guidance movie review.

Watch the First Hunger Games: Catching Fire Trailer

April 15th, 2013
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For those of you who were wise enough not to watch the MTV Movie Awards, the first Hunger Games: Catching Fire teaser trailer is now online for your viewing pleasure. The teaser (which, at two and a half minutes is hardly a teaser) sells the movie well – in fact, incredibly well.

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Elysium Movie Trailer and Poster

April 13th, 2013
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Jason Bourne has been cryogenically frozen and brought back to life with robotic enhancements in a future where the Earth is dying and the rich people live in a space station called Elysium. Bourne goes hunting for his Treadstone overlords in this paradise-in-the-sky, seeking to fully understand his true identity.

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Review: ‘Broken City’ is Broken

April 9th, 2013
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Mark Wahlberg. Russell Crowe. Catherine Zeta-Jones. It’s a cast made for great things, not Broken City, a flat thriller that finds inspiration in unoriginality.

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Review: ‘The Loved Ones’ Combines Prom and Torture

April 8th, 2013
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Ah, prom. A time for memories. And friends. And high school girls in hot dresses. Also a time for power drills to the head, torture and insane stalkers. Just when you thought the torture porn subgenre was dead, along comes The Loved Ones, an Australian horror film that is simultaneously forgettable and satisfyingly screwed up.

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A Rare Negative Review for ‘Room 237′

April 6th, 2013
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Just when I thought I had found a slam dunk – a documentary about one of my favorite films of all time, The Shining – I quickly realized that Room 237 was not the film I expected and wanted to be.  Room 237, so titled for the infamous room from The Shining, takes an interesting approach to the subject matter, gathering an assortment of eccentric lovers of the film who all have various theories on its deeper meanings.  Like the film being about the oppression of the Native Americans to Hitler’s persecution of the Jews to even stranger interpretations.

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Review: The ‘Evil Dead’ Remake Is… Well, Gory

April 5th, 2013
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Limbs will be removed. Tongues will be cut. Heads will be chainsawed. The Evil Dead remake is here, and it is one of the goriest movies ever put to film. But is it, as the marketing has so boldly promised, "the most terrifying film you will ever experience"? The answer is a clear "no," but it still serves as a mildly entertaining splatterfest – as long as you find limbs being forcibly removed, tongues getting cut and chainsaws impaling heads entertaining.

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A First Reaction to Whatever ‘Upstream Color’ Is

April 5th, 2013
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I don’t know what Upstream Color is about. You don’t either. The difference: I’ve seen the movie. There is a woman and there is a thief. There is a maggot that people inhale that does stuff to them. There is a pig farm. And a pig farmer. And pigs. I’ve got that much down.

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Delayed Review: A True Friendship Between ‘Robot & Frank’

April 4th, 2013
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Ah, the classic story of an old man and his friend robot. A tried and true tale that has been told through the centuries. And even yet, Robot & Frank is a surprisingly endearing drama-comedy about two unlikely friends, starring Frank Langella and the voice of Peter Sarsgaard.

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Romance, Love and Inanimate Objects

April 3rd, 2013
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Forget the noise about a couple coming together, despite their differences or some earth-shattering apocalypse (or whatever contrivance filmmakers decide to come up with). No, today I’m exploring love of a… different nature. Something that you just won’t find in your typical top romance movie lists. Even though everyone’s favorite weatherman Brick Tamland of Anchorman fame may have been joking, others are far more serious. Love is a many splendored thing – and sometimes it can be pretty strange as well.

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Delayed Review: ‘Paranormal Activity 4′ More of the Same

April 2nd, 2013
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Katie and her favorite demonic soul buddy are at it again, this time tormenting a Facetime-loving piece of jailbait and her family because they made the mistake of adopting a boy who is marked by the Devil. Common problem, and it usually doesn’t result in the number of deaths that occur here. It’s Paranormal Activity 4, folks, and it’s nothing you haven’t seen before.

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The Tomb: A Throwback to the Eighties Action Movie?

April 1st, 2013
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The 1980s is considered by many as the golden era of action movies, and introduced us to such names as the T-101 Terminator, Rocky Balboa, John Rambo, John Matrix, Cobra, and the Predator. It’s safe to say I was, and still am, a huge fan of these 80s action movies and heroes. They were so over the top and as a result the larger than life stars who played in these action movies have become some of my all-time favorites.

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Review: ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’

March 29th, 2013
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What makes a son like his father? Is a son doomed to make his father’s mistakes? These questions are explored in the sweeping yet personal epic from director Derek Cianfrance The Place Beyond the Pines, which reunites him with his Blue Valentine star Ryan Gosling. At times captivating, at other times longwinded, The Place Beyond the Pines is the first good drama of the year. Unfortunately, it’s also far from perfect.

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