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Jake Kasdan’s Bad Teacher is a breath of fresh, cynical air. And that’s not because it’s outrageously hilarious – the jokes miss just as often as they hit – but because it’s a film that, for once, actually lives up to its title. From start to finish, the teacher in Bad Teacher is bad. She’s not somewhat bad, she’s not repentantly bad and she’s certainly not sympathetically bad.  Nope, she’s [...]

By on July 25, 2011

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To coincide with the July 21st release of 5 Days of War, the new war-drama starring Rupert Friend and Andy Garcia, Anchor Bay Films and Cut Print Review are giving readers the chance to win one of five in-season double passes to see the film!

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5 Days of War [...]

By on July 19, 2011

Remember back in 1983 when the fated, final clash between two sparking sabres – one green, the other red – evoked the kind of wide-eyed wonderment that now, nearly three decades later, still manages to send a tingle down your spine?

I don’t. I was still six years away from being born. And as much as I have come to appreciate the Star Wars saga in the years since, its pleasures [...]

By on July 14, 2011

I doubt Bill George is a name that springs to mind when you think of blockbuster movies franchises such as Indiana Jones or Pirates of the Caribbean, but in an age where visuals effects are king, it probably should.  For over 30 years, George has helped create a bevy of cinema’s most magical moments as both a Model Maker and Visual Effects Supervisor [...]

By on July 5, 2011

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To celebrate the July 6th Blu-Ray and DVD release of I Am Number Four, the action-packed thriller starring Alex Pettyfer and Dianna Agron, DreamWorks Studios and Cut Print Review are giving you the chance to win one of two Blu-Ray Value Packs (Blu-Ray + DVD) retailed at $49.95 each!

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By on July 5, 2011

In Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the latest visual effects show-reel from action director Michael Bay, a race of evil alien robots threatens to annihilate all of humanity. Not a hard task when there isn’t a spec in sight to begin with.

The words “soulless, empty spectacle” doesn’t even begin to describe the third Transformers movie, but it’s a good place to start. Bots go “bam!”, buildings go “boom!” and boobs [...]

By on June 30, 2011

Pixar are, in a word, perfectionists. The animation studio’s trophy cabinet — housing no less than twenty-six Oscars and seven Golden Globes — should be evidence enough. Yet even virtuosos are subject to the occasional lapse in judgment; days when they produce something that doesn’t quite live up to their own impossibly high standard. Something like 2006’s Cars, for example.

Now call me an optimist, but I like to believe that [...]

By on June 21, 2011

Sure, the Norwegian mock-doc The Troll Hunter begins almost identically to 1999’s The Blair Witch Project, but I can assure you it’s not your average found-footage movie. Just give writer/director André Ovredal a good twenty minutes to find his own voice, and before you know it, you’ll be knee-deep in one of the most enjoyable and amusing movies to ever involve shaky camerawork, terrified documentarians and things that go bump [...]

By on June 20, 2011
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