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Draft Day (2014)

Bill Clark — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 20:06:41 +0000

Draft Day takes on the challenging task of balancing the sports-nerd event that is the NFL draft with a story that the average, non-football fan can take in. The results are mixed, with the verbal battles between the general managers making for far better entertainment than the sappy and under-cooked… Continue reading

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Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

Bill Clark — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 13:52:13 +0000

Dallas Buyers Club represents that breed of Oscar contender where the performances are far better than the movie. Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto turn in career-defining work, but the film as a whole is pretty standard underdog fare and surprisingly cold and distant emotionally. You can’t help but feel like you… Continue reading

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Juno (2007)

Bill Clark — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:00:24 +0000

Watching Juno is like spending ninety minutes with the wiseass office “intellectual”; the kind of person who quotes movies like The Matrix with a straight face and thinks Dennis Miller ruled on Monday Night Football. The Indie comedy used to have something to say, but now it’s just a front… Continue reading

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The Kingdom (2007)

Bill Clark — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:00:59 +0000

The Kingdom is a contemporary example of what a serious war action/drama used to be, even just a decade ago. Here we stand in a war that has already lasted longer than all of World War II and Hollywood’s method for handling the material is to shoot for the jugular,… Continue reading

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