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"Warm Bodies" warrants a new take on zombies
Derek91In zombie movies the dead come back to life. It’s a rule of the zombie genre. In order to have flesh eaters roaming the streets, the dead need to rise from their graves with an appetite for...
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"Promised Land": Two men's battle, one town's future
Derek91“We’re not fighting for land, we’re fighting for people,” explains Dustin Noble (John Krasinski), a spokesperson for a small environmental activist group called Athena. Dustin is speaking to a...
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"Gangster Squad": Colorful characters, delectable dialogue
Derek91An action movie has to have a good villain. Now, this villain can’t be around merely to be a punching bag. No, this villain has to be evil. You should love to hate this villain, who is not only...
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The 85th annual Oscars: Reviews/previews of Best Picture nominees
Derek91Two weeks after Super Bowl XLVII and one week after the 55th Grammy Awards, the little golden guy gets his day. February 24, 2013, is the day of the 85th annual Oscars, also known as the Academy...
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"Life of Pi" leaves you thinking
Derek91When you survive a shipwreck, your main concerns are most likely to be staying afloat, drinking clean water, and keeping your hunger at bay. Dealing with a Bengal tiger shouldn’t be on your...
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"Dead Man Down" gets lost in its own plot
Derek91"Revenge Is Coming" is the tagline on the movie poster for Dead Man Down. It's an apt slogan for a flick that uses revenge as its main focus, hammering the concept into your brain until all you...
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Movies that could become blockbusters in the sweet, sweaty days of summer 2013
Derek91In the days of spring, you can hear them coming. Stand in a movie theater lobby and cock your head to the side just right, and you’ll feel more than hear a rumble emanating from the horizon....
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"The Lords of Salem": A heady trip into Rob Zombie's bizarre world
Derek91With The Lords of Salem, writer/director/musician Rob Zombie proves that he can make a respectable film in a genre other than horror. That’s not to say that Zombie’s latest shouldn’t be...
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"The Purge" provides plentiful shocks amid some new ideas
Derek91In the futuristic United States setting of writer/director James DeMonaco’s The Purge, the land of the free and the home of the brave is an unsettling place to live. Especially on that one day a...
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"The Spectacular Now" lives up to its title
Derek91The hallowed halls that make up the coming-of-age movie genre have received a memorable new enrollee with director James Ponsoldt’s The Spectacular Now, a movie based on author Tim Tharp’s 2008...
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