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Thursday, May 1 2008

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008

Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined.


Reviews

Sunday, February 1 2009

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

I've never been so eager to skip past the story to get to the special features.


Friday, August 1 2008

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Amid all the poorly edited, atrociously written tumult, the silly CGI and the tragic misuse of Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh, Rick remains an appealing throwback hero.


Friday, July 29 2005

Stealth (2005)

Kara's a lovely, leggy, perfectly made-up figure whose primary purpose is to provide moral framing for the boys' brilliant strikes and calculations.


Friday, August 9 2002

XXX (2002)

Xander is a bad ass with a heart of gold.


Sunday, January 1 1995

The Fast and the Furious (2001)

But the movie isn't really about breaking laws, being punished, lamenting Ja Rule's teeny part, or even learning how to be a man. It's really about cars. If that sounds like a metaphor, well, okay.


Blogs

Saturday, December 13 2008

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

If aspirations and ambitions were all it took to make a good movie (or at the very least, a merely entertaining one), there'd be no…


Thursday, July 31 2008

Corpse Grinding

It's never pleasant when something that was lightweight (albeit cheesy) and fun is forced into profit sharing mode. Put another way, when a franchise has…


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