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Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

Bill Clark — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:00:57 +0000

Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the third in the Earth-destroying series, delivers the goods, plain and simple. Correcting many of the mistakes from its immediate predecessor, Transformers 3 is an epic, exciting popcorn film whose last hour is so relentless and visually breathtaking that all-out sensory overload is a foregone… Continue reading

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Life As We Know It (2010)

Bill Clark — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:00:11 +0000

Life As We Know It contains what has to be the most unappetizing setup in romantic comedy history. Usually people bump carts at the grocery store or trip over each other on a New York City street. It’s what Ebert calls the “Meet Cute.” We have the two young and… Continue reading

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When in Rome (2010)

Bill Clark — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:00:31 +0000

When in Rome is an aggressively bad movie; perhaps one of the most pathetically manic rom-coms ever made. We’re not talking Because I Said So bad, but at least Couples Retreat bad. That this is the current state of the romantic comedy is pretty sad, as Hollywood continues to expel… Continue reading

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

Bill Clark — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:00:58 +0000

Somewhere around the two-hour mark of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, a character requests that a plan be made concise and to-the-point. I’d like to think that’s a wink from the trio of screenwriters to the audience, because next to nothing in Transformers 2 makes any sense. Perhaps that is… Continue reading

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Transformers (2007)

Bill Clark — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:00:14 +0000

I was always into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Ghostbusters, not so much the Transformers. I vividly remember some of my elementary school friends bringing over their Transformers, and we’d morph and battle them all day long. I was a sucker for durable plastic toys, as was any 8-year-old… Continue reading

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Turistas (2006)

Bill Clark — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:00:46 +0000

Go ahead and yawn. Turistas is just another disposable piece of pseudo-exploitation trash that has arrived in the wake of the success of Hostel, a film that, while flawed, at least had the benefit of some psychological plausibility. Nightmares of isolation and unendurable pain are the calling card of this… Continue reading

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