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Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, May 17,2012
{after 1st article on article listing} Powerful message saves this Bully
There’s plenty of blame and shame to go around in Lee Hirsch’s Bully, a flawed yet compelling documentary that puts our nation’s bullying epidemic under the microscope. Shot in 2010,
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, May 10,2012
Shadows too dim to see details
I have some vague recollections of the Dark Shadows soap opera. I remember NOT being allowed to watch it, that whenever I did sneak a peak around the corner into the living room that there was always
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, May 3,2012
The Avengers, a rousing success
Epic in scope and audacious in its execution, The Avengers is a product (make no mistake – it’s more product than film) that lives up to every promise Marvel Studios has made since they la
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, April 26,2012
Pearce wisecracks his way out of Lockout
Though the credits in Lockout assure us that it is “based on an original idea by Luc Besson,” those with a rudimentary knowledge of genre filmmaking will immediately recognize its premise
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, April 26,2012
Lucky tripped up by Sparks
I have a theory about adaptations of Nicholas Sparks’ novels. Give a script of any one of his novels to a budding filmmaker and if they can successfully make a movie from it, then that’s a
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, April 19,2012
Cabin turns horror genre inside out
Since its release at this year’s SXSW festival, Joss Whedon’s The Cabin in the Woods has been steadily building buzz. The writer/director’s rabid fans have taken to the blogosphere t
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, April 12,2012
Tired Reunion a party to miss
I want to state first that I am not a prude. I don’t mind a ribald joke or a filthy gag and I’m not ashamed to say that I’ve laughed long and hard at the work of Mel Brooks, the Farr
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, April 12,2012
Fishing will hook you
Where would we be without dreamers? Airplanes would never have been invented, the Golden Gate Bridge would never have been built and the hot dog would never have been made. Add Sheikh Muhammed (Amr Wa
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, April 5,2012
Harrelson can’t save rambling Rampart
After Oren Moverman’s Rampart was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, its star, Woody Harrelson, was critical of the movie, saying it was not what he had envisioned when
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, April 5,2012
Fresh perspective makes for a bright Mirror
Well, you could have knocked me over with a poisoned apple. In promoting this year’s first entry in the Snow White movie duel, Mirror, Mirror, Relativity Media is focusing on all of the wrong el
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