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J. Edgar
Early in Clint Eastwood’s “J. Edgar,” we learn that there’s history, and then there’s history as told by J. Edgar Hoover. As played by Leonardo DiCaprio, Hoover is a man whose obsession with fact and truth ends when the subject … Continue reading
Cowboys & Aliens
In “Cowboys & Aliens,” Daniel Craig wakes up in the desert bruised, bloodied and wearing a strange bracelet that he soon discovers is an alien weapon. Later, he learns he can control the weapon by clearing his mind and not … Continue reading
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2
The eighth and final film of the Harry Potter series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” has the heavy task of providing three different endings. First, it wraps up the adventures Harry and his companions began in the … Continue reading
Horrible Bosses
There have been plenty of R-rated comedies during the 2011 summer movie season and plenty more are on the way. It’s not a renaissance so much as a deluge, and the highest praise that can be heaped upon “Horrible Bosses” … Continue reading
Paranormal Activity
It took two years for “Paranormal Activity” to reach a wide audience, and in that time, the film attracted a fantastic amount of hype online. Filmed in a week in 2006 with a budget of only a few thousand dollars, … Continue reading
Zombieland
When it comes to shaking up the status quo and establishing new ground rules by which to live, there’s nothing more motivating than an apocalypse. And there’s no better apocalypse than a zombie apocalypse, an end-of-the-world scenario that started out … Continue reading
The Informant!
From the exclamation point appended to the title to the standoffish based-on-a-true-story title card at the film’s start (it ends with “So there.”), “The Informant!” all but challenges you to believe it. Director Steven Soderbergh’s latest film is, after all, … Continue reading
Inglourious Basterds
In Philip K. Dick’s novel “The Man in the High Castle,” a chronicle of an alternate history of World War II in which the Axis won the war and Germany and Japan conquered America, there’s a great moment in which … Continue reading
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Since he joined the X-Men in the mid-1970s, the clawed Canadian mutant brawler Wolverine has always claimed to be “the best there is at what I do, but what I do isn’t very nice.” And for most of Wolverine’s comic … Continue reading
