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'Sucker' Punched
“Sucker Punch” is such an epic and total failure that I can in no way recommend you spend hard-earned American dollars to view it. Ever.
British Compulsion
For those that have forgotten or spent most of your Senior English classes drinking beer in the high school parking lot, “Jane Eyre” is the tale of a young orphan girl in 19th Century England.
Petty Dreams
Peggy, coked to the gills, grabbed the mic stand and bent it down beside her. “Rock steady,” she growled. “Rock me all night long.”
Worst Thursday?
Worst Thursday — scheduled for 5 p.m. until late on Thursday, April 7 — will do its own thing at Uncle Gaylord’s, 315 W. Mountain St. near the square.
A Movie Nerd's Movie
Last week in “Battle: Los Angeles” aliens came to blow us up. This week in “Paul” the alien in question is much more content just kicking back, having a few beers and cracking a bunch of jokes. Now that’s a close encounter I can get behind.
'Limitless' Thrill
During the height of the steroids-in-baseball scandal a friend defending the muscle-bound sluggers asked, “You mean to tell me that if someone came up to you and offered you a pill that would make you dramatically better at your job and ratchet up your pay grade that you wouldn’t take it?”
Relating The Naked Truth
“… my earliest memory of the movies was cowering under the seat as the Queen in “Snow White” transformed into the Witch …”
A War Movie With Aliens
“Battle: Los Angeles” is a war movie, pure and simple. It features virtually every convention of the genre and cribs from the battalions of war movies that came before.
Who's Afraid Of Wasting $10?
It was then that our brave, little movie critic had enough and stood and shouted into the darkness, “’Red Riding Hood,’ what horrible plotting you have.” “The better to bore you with, my dear,” it replied.
Aggressive Communication
I have heard aggression talked about as a neutral thing. It’s different from anger. It is force, and force is often called for. Without it we’d be mashed to the ground.
