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More than a cartoon, Up is a life lessonHolidays at the moviesHow Henry Selick brings Coraline to lifeKick-Ass is only half rightThe Last Airbender is a disasterSex 2: Narcissism cont.Understanding Potter’s magical spell as it comes to an endSteve an unmitigated disaster Believe the hype: Paranormal a true bone-rattlerStory of a used toy store
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, April 21,2011
Win Win examines quiet human victories
Mike Flaherty has more than his share of problems. He has a growing mountain of debt, fewer and fewer clients are coming to his law firm, and the high school wrestling team he coaches couldn’t p
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, April 14,2011
Arthur woefully out of step
Oh, what a difference 30 years makes. When Dudley Moore’s Arthur proved to be the surprise comedic hit of 1981, audiences couldn’t help but be charmed by the besotted millionaire who could
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, April 14,2011
Rio looks at life with a song and dance
An explosion of color, movement and music, director Carlos Saldanha’s Rio is a Valentine to his native land. It espouses the virtues of approaching life with a spring in your step and a song in
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, April 7,2011
Distinctive heroine separates Hanna from the pack
Joe Wright’s Hanna owes a debt not only to Grimm’s Fairy Tales, allusions to which permeate the film, but also to the recent spate of superhero movies. Thankfully, it’s far better th
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, April 7,2011
A good old-fashioned frightfest called Insidious
One thing needs to be said about James Wan’s Insidious before anything else – there’s not one original idea in this horror retread. Seemingly working off a “Haunted House Movie
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, March 31,2011
Suckerpunch an empty visual exercise
With an effective remake of a horror classic (Dawn of the Dead), a highly stylized historical epic (300), and a vibrant but botched comic book film (Watchmen) under his belt, director Zack Snyder has
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, March 31,2011
This Wimpy Kid is not much fun
Greg Heffley, the hero in Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules, does seem to suffer a bit more than the average seventh-grader and, truth be told, he brings a lot of it on himself.
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, March 24,2011
The Lincoln Lawyer presents a solid case
Like many others, I am a sucker for a good courtroom drama. While Brad Furman’s The Lincoln Lawyer will never be accused of being a classic of the genre, it’s good enough to tide us over u
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, March 24,2011
Limitless fails to reach its potential
Like a thoroughbred that busts out of the gate only to fade in the home stretch, Limitless gets off to a rousing start, providing an entertaining hour in which we follow a charming slacker, frustrated
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, March 17,2011
Hood a real howler
Oh the horror that is Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood ! This update of the classic fairy tale is undone by a ludicrous script, jumbled direction and a central performance that dominates th
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