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Movie Review: “Now You See Me” (Louis Leterrier, France/USA 2013)
Are you a fan of magic acts? Heist movies? If you answered, “Yes,” this film will disappoint you. If you answered, “No,” at least you won’t be excited enough going in to be disappointed. In spite of the best efforts of Woody Harrelson to carry the film as its comic relief, it doesn’t work. Nearly…
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Movie Review: “Ender’s Game” (Gavin Hood, USA 2013)
I loved Ender’s Game, the novel. I loved it some much that I also read Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender’s Shadow, and Shadow of the Hegemon (Currently, there are an unbelievable 14 novels in the “Enderverse,” so I’m clearly not the biggest fan since I have only read six.) even…
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Movie Review: “Les yeux sans visage” (Georges Franju, France/Italy 1960)
Ranked number 323 in 2012 Sight & Sound Critics Poll (5 votes). The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (Tom Six, The Netherlands 2009) created something of a sensation around the pure shock value of its premise, which was a continuation of a long line of films adapting the basic premise of the surgical evil of Frankenstein…
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