The traditional love story/social drama gets upended Baz Luhrmann style, with flashy special effects, dancing, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jay Z music. This isn’t your grandma’s The Great Gatsby, but that’s okay. Especially since I don’t remember grandma’s version to begin with, if I ever saw it in the first place.
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How do I start this review? How do I write the rest of it? The subject is Silver Linings Playbook, but not the movie. This review is about the DVD, and DVD reviews can only go so far. I’ve never been interested in going on and on about how good the video quality or audio clarity is, because after all, 99% of people don’t give a damn, especially when the movie is a drama-comedy.
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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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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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Uh-oh, it’s a love triangle! Or is it a love square? Either way, Stephenie Meyer’s post-Twilight novel is now a major motion picture, and it is pretty much exactly what you’d expect it to be. The Host presents an intriguing premise and better overall production values than Meyer’s much maligned blockbuster franchise, but suffers from the same aimless and anticlimactic storytelling – and pathetically dopey romances.
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Note to guys: if you are literally insane, your hot and neglected wife will cheat on you with a doctor. Such is the case in A Royal Affair, a romantic and engaging drama that deservedly earned an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Picture.
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The next Twilight franchise is here, but with a twist: Beautiful Creatures, about a teenage boy who is drawn to a strange girl who has a strange family (sound familiar?), actually has intelligent writing. Shocking. Breathtaking. And kind of fun.
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How high would the divorce rate go if they all were as amicable as the one between the title characters in Celeste & Jesse Forever? Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg star as the two former lovebirds whose continued friendship amidst their divorce causes confusion for their friends and, when other potential love interests become involved, the two of them as well.
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With growing acceptance of the gay community and a trend toward equal rights for all, is it already time to shift our focus to a new kind of discrimination? Zombies are an underappreciated and stereotyped bunch, generally assumed to be lacking in intelligence and having an overzealous lust for human flesh. There are no laws against killing zombies; in fact, it is actively encouraged by every government body except for North Korea and Switzerland.
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Every year countless movies are made. And every year, most of those movies fail to be recognized by the masses. Many of them are deserving of such slights, but there are always a handful that have been unfairly overlooked. Maybe the marketing was bad. Perhaps the studio just never gave the film an opportunity to succeed. Or, simply, audiences ignored it for no damn reason.
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Appearances can be deceiving. Liberal Arts is a movie with a boring title, a boring poster and a boring-sounding premise. Liberal Arts is also one of the more heartwarming and engaging romantic dramas of the year.
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My fantasy has finally come true. For years I’ve dreamed of a Meryl Streep/Tommy Lee Jones sex scene, and Hope Springs turned those dreams into reality. Funny and heartwarming, Hope Springs looks at the efforts of an aging couple whose marriage is hanging on by threads.
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2012 was a banner year for movies. From massive blockbusters to highly anticipated adaptations – and movies that came out of nowhere – the year treated audiences with a surprisingly strong selection in practically every genre. As in any year, not every film delivered (ask Taylor Kitsch), but also, a few stand out among the rest. Here are the top ten best movies of 2012:
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The world is slowly going to hell. It’s not overpopulation. Or war. Nuclear disaster? Nope. Not even famine. The world is going to hell because people are losing their senses. Smell. Taste. Hearing. Sight. People are losing their connection with the world, and there is nothing they can do to stop it. That’s the premise of Perfect Sense, a largely overlooked romantic drama starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green.
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