Movies

2 films from ‘Arrested Development’ alums – ‘Extract’ and ‘Paper Heart’ – are interesting failures (Movie reviews)

I’m not crazy about Blockbuster’s (and most video stores’) decision in recent years to get rid of most of their old stock and focus heavily

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‘Sherlock Holmes’ has lots of style, but it’s hard to care (Movie review)

I don’t understand these movies that put so much effort into making it look great, and then seem to expend so little effort on plot

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John’s top 10 movies of 2009

I reserve the right to retroactively add “Adam” and “The Invention of Lying” to this list; living in a small town, I have to wait for DVD to see

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James Cameron takes humanity to task in the breathtaking ‘Avatar’ (Movie review)

Twenty-five years ago in “The Terminator,” James Cameron worried that technology would spell the end of mankind. In his subsequent films, he continued to mull

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John’s favorite movies of the Aughts (Commentary)

Next, here are my top 10 … OK, 20 … movies of the Aughts. 1. “Garden State” (2004) — I’m not going to lie: This is just a

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John’s favorite entertainers of the Aughts (Commentary)

First, my top 10 entertainers. These are the people (and one fictional robot) who put a smile on my face in every project they tackled.

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The best movies of the Aughts … as it happened (Commentary)

Sticking with the theme from my previous post, here are my No. 1 movies from the years 2000 through 2008, as I saw it at

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The really cool stuff of the Aughts wasn’t found in the mainstream (Commentary)

Time Magazine called it the “decade from hell,” but Entertainment Weekly argued, in its latest issue, what about the entertainment? However, they failed to make

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‘An Education’ doesn’t teach us anything new (Movie review)

“An Education” is one of those movies that I can acknowledge is good, yet I didn’t particularly like it. This is because I’m starting to develop

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‘Donnie Darko’ helmer is still thinking outside ‘The Box,’ but that’s not necessarily a good thing (Movie review)

See, this is what I meant in my “Paranormal Activity” review about how good actors can add a lot to a movie. Cameron Diaz is

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