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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Room 237”

> I write this as a fairly obsessive fan of Stanley Kubrick, back since I desperately wanted to see A Clockwork Orange in its original X-rated release but was too young to get in. So the very idea of ROOM 237, a feature-length ...

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ZOOM IN: Saoirse Ronan in Joe Wright’s “Atonement”

> Saoirse Ronan stars in Joe Wright’s HANNA, opening April 8. See It On Any Screen Saoirse Ronan only appears in the first 50 minutes or so of Joe Wright’s film of the Ian McEwan novel ATONEMENT, playing the young B...

by Mitch Salem

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INSIDIOUS: What’s That Noise?

> Worth a ticket. The director and writer of Saw, James Wan and Leigh Whannell, combine again to bring us–hey, where are you going? No, seriously: don’t run away. Leaving aside that Saw is rather u...

by Mitch Salem

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“THE HANGOVER PART II” – Hair Of the Dog

> Worth a Ticket; It Wasn’t Broke, They Didn’t Fix It In Hollywood, the word “sequel” is often code for “remake.” This isn’t news: the James Bond series has been going on fo...

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LIMITED RELEASE: “POM Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold”

> Watch It At Home: Morgan Spurlock’s latest doc is more stunt than revelation. If Michael Moore were a movie franchise, Morgan Spurlock would be the direct-to-video entry in the series. Or maybe the one that ...

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PRIEST: Pray For Us

> Not Even For Free; The 3D Must Stand For “Dull Deadly Dud” If you squint at the post-apocalyptic desert wasteland settings of PRIEST, I swear you can see the camera crews from The Book of Eli, Jonah Hex, Resident ...

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SOURCE CODE: If At First You Don’t Succeed…

> Worth a ticket. They say that the definition of madness is repeating the same action with the expectation of a different result. But that diagnosis doesn’t allow for this: a man (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up an...

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WATER FOR ELEPHANTS: Not So Big Top

> Watch It At Home; A circus story that’s not the greatest show in the multiplex. Sometimes even a small moment in a movie can typify how it’s gone wrong. There’s a scene fairly early in WATER FOR ELEPHA...

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FAST FIVE: Boxoffice Express

> Worth a Ticket: Diesel and The Rock keep their pedals to the metal. If you want to feel truly American, try reflecting on the new FAST FIVE while wall-to-wall coverage of the British royal wedding is airing on the telev...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED PILOT REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – FOX’s “New Girl”

> Disclaimer: Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall. Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot. So these critiques sh...

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THOR: Hammered

> Watch It At Home: The God of Thunder Musters a Tinny Roar. Put it this way: the new superhero epic THOR cost something like $150M to produce, required the diligent services of hundreds of professionals over a peri...

by Mitch Salem

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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES” – Take the Train

> Watch It At Home; Dreary Franchise Moviemaking. In the 137 minutes of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the 4th installment in Disney’s hugely successful franchise (and yes, you have to sit through all ...

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THE CONSPIRATOR: Court In Session

> Watch It At Home: Scrupulously accurate, to a fault. In an era that so recently gave us “The Kennedys,” possibly the worst piece of pop culture history ever produced for American television, it seems downrig...

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SOUL SURFER: Charlie Don’t Surf

> Not Even For Free. There’s a key scene in the new SOUL SURFER where the one-armed teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, who’s had her other arm chewed off by a shark and who despairs of her career in competition, is in Th...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Liberal Arts”

> Josh Radnor’s writing/directing debut happythankyoumoreplease, which played Sundance a couple of years ago, was a promising, entertaining NY-set romantic comedy-drama that hailed from the Woody Allen division of indie f...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Room 237”

ZOOM IN: Saoirse Ronan in Joe Wright’s “Atonement”

INSIDIOUS: What’s That Noise?

“THE HANGOVER PART II” – Hair Of the Dog

LIMITED RELEASE: “POM Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold”

PRIEST: Pray For Us

SOURCE CODE: If At First You Don’t Succeed…

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS: Not So Big Top

FAST FIVE: Boxoffice Express

THE SKED PILOT REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – FOX’s “New Girl”

THOR: Hammered

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES” – Take the Train

THE CONSPIRATOR: Court In Session

SOUL SURFER: Charlie Don’t Surf

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Liberal Arts”

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