movie reviews

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    Beautiful Creatures movie review: An emo romance

    By Shanee Edwards on Feb 14, 2013
    Max 5 stars
    4
    My Rating
    This gothic, supernatural love story is a mix of moody teens, Civil War ghosts and powerful curses. Based on the novel by Kami...
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    A Good Day to Die Hard movie review: Cheers from Chernobyl

    By Shanee Edwards on Feb 14, 2013
    Bruce Willis and Jai Courtney are together for some unusual father and son bonding. But what American family doesn’t enjoy blasting...
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    Safe Haven movie review: Tears for fears

    By Shanee Edwards on Feb 14, 2013
    I swore I wouldn’t cry while watching this film, but then, there was that moment when beauty, heart, soul, pain and deep sacrifice...
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    Identity Thief movie review: Melissa McCarthy goes phishing

    By Shanee Edwards on Feb 8, 2013
    Melissa McCarthy steals big laughs as she assumes Jason Bateman’s identity, creating a riotous nightmare for him, but a great time...
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    Side Effects movie review: Sanity check

    By Shanee Edwards on Feb 8, 2013
    This psychological thriller is full of twists and turns as a young woman battles her depression with medication. In a complex world...
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    Identity Thief is thievery at its comedic best

    By Genevieve Dubois on Feb 5, 2013
    Max 5 stars
    5
    My Rating
    Hold on to your credit cards, Social Security documents and passport. On Feb. 8, you will be reminded just how crazy identity fraud...
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    Stand Up Guys movie review: Alan Arkin has a threesome

    By Shanee Edwards on Feb 1, 2013
    When three aging mobsters reunite after one is released from prison, it’s not long before they're back to their old ways, stealing...
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    Warm Bodies movie review: Love in the time of zombies

    By Shanee Edwards on Feb 1, 2013
    Just in time for Valentine’s day comes a never before imagined version of Romeo and Juliet, where romance, horror and comedy all...
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    Movie 43 movie review: Emma Stone gets a hickey on her vajayjay

    By Shanee Edwards on Jan 25, 2013
    This raunchy comedy is a teenage boy’s wet dream. Naked women, leprechauns and the most poop and fart jokes ever compiled into a...
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    Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters movie review: The dark arts in 3D

    By Shanee Edwards on Jan 25, 2013
    In this reimagining of the classic fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel aren’t your average Grimm waifs. Jeremy Renner’s Hansel carries a...
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    Parker movie review: To catch a thief

    By Shanee Edwards on Jan 25, 2013
    Based on a series of books by Donald E. Westlake, this action flick plays out in a world where diamonds are a girl’s best friend and...
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    Broken City movie review: Bad mayor

    By Shanee Edwards on Jan 18, 2013
    What do you do when the mayor of New York City is bad to the bone? Mark Wahlberg goes head to head with Russell Crowe, collecting...
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    Mama movie review: Jessica Chastain has “mommy issues”

    By Shanee Edwards on Jan 18, 2013
    Max 5 stars
    4.5
    My Rating
    In this visually compelling and frightening film, two little girls get taken in by a ghost-mother, whose on-screen presence is...
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    Prosecuting Casey Anthony movie review: Not so Bella Vita

    By Shanee Edwards on Jan 16, 2013
    Max 5 stars
    1
    My Rating
    What seemed like a slam-dunk case turned out to be far more complicated than anyone could have imagined — especially for prosecutor...
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    Gangster Squad movie review: The battle for Emma Stone

    By Shanee Edwards on Jan 11, 2013
    It’s 1949 and a new gangster is in the City of Angeles. Mickey Cohen is a thug who has it all – drugs, power, a hot girl – until...
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    Quartet movie review: Don’t die until you die.

    By Shanee Edwards on Jan 11, 2013
    This sage advice comes from one of the film’s stars, Billy Connolly, as he reflects on his own aging process. With septuagenarian...
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    Zero Dark Thirty movie review: Time to catch bin Laden

    By Shanee Edwards on Jan 11, 2013
    Detailing the most extensive manhunt in perhaps all of history, this film is told through the eyes of a woman CIA agent, who will...
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    Promised Land movie review: Dead cows and big lies

    By Shanee Edwards on Dec 28, 2012
    This film takes on one of the most controversial natural gas drilling techniques, called “fracking,” that’s known for its big...
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    Parental Guidance movie review: Grandpa unchained

    By Shanee Edwards on Dec 25, 2012
    Max 5 stars
    1.8
    My Rating
    Now that time-outs have become more en vogue than spankings, here’s a comedy starring the fabulously funny Bette Midler and Billy...
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    Les Miserables movie review: And the Oscar goes to…

    By Shanee Edwards on Dec 25, 2012
    Max 5 stars
    3.1
    My Rating
    This outstanding film version of the much loved musical boasts some of the world’s most talented actors, who also have lungs of...
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    Django Unchained movie review: Bold and bloody

    By Shanee Edwards on Dec 25, 2012
    Quentin Tarantino takes on slavery in this wildly violent love story set in antebellum south. Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio face...