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Standing the Test of Time – The Bourne Legacy ****

The Bourne Legacy is a winner on virtually every front.  With the Bourne Legacy, brothers Tony, Dan and John Gilroy demonstrate they can continue their Pulitzer prize winner father Frank’s legacy of great story telling as well. The Bourne Legacy is not a reboot or retread of the series adapted from the Robert Ludlum novels Read More…

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Dark Night Endurance *** 1/2

Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film is not typical of the DC Comic’s style currently smothering screens today in any way, shape or form.  Dark Knight Rises is a serious drama, laced with tidbits of clever humor, that starts out good and finishes with edge of your seat power for its last 90 Read More…

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The Amazing Spider-man: The Film Equivilent of Playing Prevent Defense ***

In its first two acts The Amazing Spider-man is a surprisingly fresh, well developed and runaway winner of a film.  However in the third act, and perhaps sensing an easy victory, Director Marc Webb (500 Day’s of Summer) reverts to the standard Marvel Comic Summer playbook and finishes out the film executing the equivalent of Read More…