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Flash of Genius Movie Review
I remember reading once, maybe in a textbook, about American ingenuity. I’m pretty sure American-made school textbooks are always going to be pumped full of nationalism. I guess it was a romanticist idea that a guy would come home after work, put his kids to bed, and invent for America…
Continue reading...The Promotion Movie Review
Friday, July 4, 2008
If you work in any sort of service to the public, your fate is not your own. And our characters in this film, The Promotion, have very little control over their own fate. The film opens with the main character, Doug (Sean William Scott, or “Stifler”, for some of you),…
Continue reading...The Forbidden Kingdom Movie Review
Friday, April 18, 2008
Let’s see. I’m not a big mathematical person, but I think I have this flick figured out. Okay. The Karate Kid + Neverending Story + Last Action Hero = The Forbidden Kingdom. And that’s not really a bad thing. Going by the ads for this movie, you’d think this was a…
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Friday, October 3, 2008
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