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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 […]

Act of Valor ***

Originally Act of Valor was planned to be a recruitment film for the US Navy, but somewhere along the way decisions were made and deals were struck to turn it into a feature film. The resulting work is clearly not a propaganda piece but one that honors military personnel to the fullest extent […]

Prometheus ***1/2

So can the director for arguably one of, if not the, finest thriller in film history deliver at the same level 30 years later in a prequel to the original? Ridley Scott, Prometheus and Alien are the variables involved in this question.  My answer would be that after a first viewing, Scott has […]