Movies

Darth Maul on ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’: Cyborg, ghost or clone? (TV commentary)

In the Jan. 21 episode of “The Clone Wars” (7:30 p.m. Central Fridays on Cartoon Network), the Nightsisters send Savage Opress off to the Outer Rim to

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‘Star Wars’ fans: Are you OK with George Lucas rewriting established lore? (TV and movie commentary)

The fictional franchises I like most are the ones that have an ongoing, non-contradictory, canonical storyline — “Star Wars,” “Buffy” and “The X-Files” being my

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‘X-Files’ flashback: Mulder and Scully step up to the big screen in ‘Fight the Future’ (1998) (Movie review)

I enjoyed watching “The X-Files: Fight the Future” (1998) more on this viewing than on previous viewings. I think my method of watching the episodes in order,

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A look back at 2010, and ‘2010: The Year We Make Contact’ (Movie commentary)

With 2010 winding down, I decided to take a look back at “2010,” the 1984 movie, to see how prescient Peter Hyams (the film’s director) and Arthur

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John’s top 10 movies of 2010

I’d like to see “Somewhere” and “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” before making my top 10 movies list, but such is life in a small town, and I

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‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1’ does its artistic best with the Horcrux quest (Movie review)

After the heart-racing wonder of last year’s “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” it’s time to take a deep breath and slow down for “Harry Potter and the

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‘Paranormal Activity 2’ even better than the original (Movie review)

Shaune, a commenter on these threads, wrote about a year ago that he liked “Paranormal Activity,” but if they made a sequel he would hate it. Well,

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Vampire popularity may have peaked, but it won’t go away (Book, TV and movie commentary)

In a Sedalia bookstore, they have a shelf full of vampire books. Not just a section labeled “vampires”; I mean a full standalone bookshelf with

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How do you make a good website? Fincher doesn’t have answer, but he knows how to make a good film: ‘The Social Network’ (Movie review)

I love the combination of director David Fincher and historical topics. In his 2007 movie “Zodiac,” it seemed like he went back in time to

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Emma Stone’s ‘Easy A’ earns a solid B (Movie review)

I felt like I saw “Easy A” before I actually saw it because the previews explained the plot with such specificity: Nice girl Olive (Emma Stone) pretends

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