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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…

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Absurd Bordering on Brilliance ****

Ted, the brainchild of Seth McFarland is a remarkable fusion of two successful comedic genre’s.  First and foremost Ted is a terrific romantic comedy that pays homage to the Two-Guys One Girl theme perfected by Stanley Shapiro (with able assistance from Delbert Mann and Michael Gordon) during the 1960’s.  Second it is the raunchy foul Read More…