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Mar 8 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Eddie Pasa |
with 1 Comment
This review started at a 2.5-star rating, but I’ll let you in on a little secret: the more I think about and analyze the movie, the more I like about it. At first, I thought there are major issues keeping this film from being...
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Sep 30 |
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Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children may be summed up by this simple statement: Tim Burton does Guillermo Del Toro. That notion alone is worth a trip to the cinema to catch this larger-than-life spectacle of fantasy,...
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Dec 23 |
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Eddie Pasa |
with 1 Comment
I’m in a weird spot with The Hateful Eight, as it’s a beautiful, ugly, crass, vulgar, thrilling, suspenseful, and nigh uncomfortable film to sit through. The film’s greatest achievement is holding an uneasy tension until...
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Apr 30 |
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Michael Parsons |
with No Comments
During the opening sequence of “Avengers: Age of Ultron”, in which our mega-heroes lay siege to a compound belonging to the sinister Hydra organization in a fictitious Eastern European country, I had a vision of the...
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Apr 30 |
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Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
Isaac Asimov’s Zeroth Law of Robotics states: “A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.” In the 2004 film very loosely based on (it actually says “suggested by,” not “based on”...
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Feb 13 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Michael Parsons |
with 1 Comment
What director/co-writer Matthew Vaughn did for superhero movies in “Kick-Ass”, he’s done twofold for the spy genre with “Kingsman: The Secret Service”. The film strikes just the right chord: As a...
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Apr 9 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Michael Parsons |
with 5 Comments
With 2011’s “Captain America: The First Avenger” and “Thor” basically serving as glorified promotional pieces for 2012’s $220 million superhero collaboration “The Avengers”, the thought of these characters...
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Feb 11 |
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Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
1987’s RoboCop was a watershed movie of its time. Boasting hyperviolent action, scathing sociopolitical commentary, and some brilliant performances, it ushered in a new era of cinema and practically dared any other film to...
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Nov 26 |
MOVIE REVIEWS |
Michael Parsons |
with No Comments
Note: This is a spoiler free review of “Oldboy”. Spike Lee’s remake of the 2003 Korean film “Oldboy” is a visually alluring blend of noir thriller, action flick and “Twilight Zone”...
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Nov 26 |
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Eddie Pasa |
with No Comments
28 years later, and Josh Brolin’s still stealing odd-looking bikes to follow his antagonists. Yes, I just referred to 1985’s The Goonies, another movie in which Brolin plays an almost unwilling participant in events borne of...
