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Top Five: Last five watched

JohnFN — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:56:46 +0000

- Red River: A Ron Pearlman recommendation on TCM Tuesday, this Howard Hawkes masterpiece still resonates. Most John Wayne fans have a list of his favorite co-stars, with company favorites like Walter Brennan, Ward Bond and Maureen O’Hara. I’ll go with Montgomery Clift. He’s an absolute monster, and like the greats, can come off as [...]

Three Musketeers — a Republibot 3.0 Review

Floyd — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:53:05 +0000

MOVIE REVIEW: “The Three Musketeers” (2011)

This is an unabashedly stupid movie, but it just might be the *cleverest* stupid movie I’ve ever seen. The film it’s closest to in style, spirit and purpose is “Team America: World Police,” and it its own way, it’s even less restrained, though it’s also far less pointed. There’s [...]

Toto Shrugged

Rufus — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:18:16 +0000

Forget John Galt, find my agent!

…but Kyle Smith kind of liked it!

Threedonia frequenter and sometime poster, Film Critic (that’s right, I said, “film”), Christian Toto was underwhelmed with the first of a proposed three part movie series on Ayn Rand’s most famous work. I don’t want to poach traffic from [...]

Better red than dea– What’s that? Sure, no problem caving and making someone else the bad guys.

Eric — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:55:51 +0000

Still not sure how they’re going to digitally re-work the US being so indebted to the North Koreans, but stranger things have worked in Hollywood. Plus, with the movie seemingly on the shelf for the long-haul, who really cares who’s the villain? With fair warning the full Libertas review of the pre-censored Red Dawn [...]

When You Get Stuck Between the Moon and P.C. City

Christian Toto — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:12:26 +0000

Clean and sober…

New Arthur adheres to PC playbook Foster Brooks may spin in his grave when he learns Arthur has gone clean and sober.

“Arthur,” the 1981 comedy starring Dudley Moore as a lush who finds love with Liza Minnelli, is being remade with Russell Brand in the leading role. If [...]

Top Five: The Decade

JohnFN — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:25:29 +0000

Did the decade end last year or this year? I always believed it ended on the 10. No matter, here are my Top Fives in Film for the past, er, decade. Read at your own peril, hate at your own whim.

1. Seabiscuit: New Deal preaching aside, a wonderful movie and perhaps the best [...]

Movie Review: Due Date

JohnFN — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:57:24 +0000

It takes most directors years to become caricatures of themselves. For Todd Phillips, it took one movie.

“Due Date,” Phillips’ latest project, is his follow-up to the immensely popular and successful “The Hangover,” a movie now firmly entrenched in the American zeitgeist. Like the old ball coach, it’s hard to fault one for running [...]

DVD Review: The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

Christian Toto — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:04:51 +0000

These ‘Whites’ are local trash heroes

Think about the most extreme country western song you ever heard, a tale of outlaws who cuss and fight and then cuss and fight some more just for giggles.

You’ve just scratched the surface of the White clan.

“The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia,” produced by [...]

DVD Review: Iron Man 2

JohnFN — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 01:32:18 +0000

In honor of this past week’s release of Iron Man 2 on DVD, here’s my review of the film when it was in the theater in May.

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“Who is Tony Stark?” Will that be the chant ringing in the streets?

Jon Favereau’s treatment of everyone’s favorite billionaire super-hero has all the touches of [...]

Help Wanted: Movie Critic

Rufus — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:31:00 +0000

“Duck Soup: 2 pudgy thumbs, way up!”

I know some of you out there have been film critics. I just stumbled onto this. Tony Katz is looking for a movie critic who is not Roger Ebert to review films for his radio show.

Those interested candidates should submit a one-minute audio or video [...]