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KILLING SEASON *1/2 (out of ****) Killing Season, directed by Mark Steven Johnson (Daredevil, Ghost Rider), and starring Robert DeNiro and John Travolta, is a film about two sexagenarian actors desperately trying to remain virile and relevant as they pad their mutual fund accounts. In order to make the crass affair more palatable there is…
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PITCH PERFECT *** (out of ****) Here’s what we know: Pitch Perfect, impossible not to call Glee: The Movie, is about the four a capella teams at Barden University, a school that treats a capella groups more seriously than any school should (maybe the fictional front office of the school had also seen Glee,…
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SUCK MY DISC QUICK HIT HOPE SPRINGS **1/2 (out of ****) Hope Springs is one of those movies where you can watch the preview, close your eyes, imagine what happens in the movie, and be 100% right. From the twists of the story to the decisions made by the director, it offers almost nothing…
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QUICK HIT THE DARK KNIGHT RISES Is this going to go down as the most polarizing movie of the year? It might be, with Cloud Atlas barely registering on the radar, and without a Michael Moore movie. The feeling I got when I heard anybody talking about this movie was that their love or hate…
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DOUBLEFISTED EDITION!!! In which two people review the new-to-DVD The Hunger Games, one who hasn’t read the books, and one who has. HAS NOT READ THE BOOKS: ** (out of ****) It’s becoming more and more clear just how big the hole is in the world of pop culture that was left by the ending…
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LOL * (out of ****) I’m not going to say that my job here in the Suck My Disc wing of the PopFilter mansion, located in the old parking lot of the PopFilter Podcast Studio in lovely Burbank, California, is difficult; it’s basically the easiest job anyone could ever have. But that…
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GOD BLESS AMERICA ** (out of ****) If you’ve heard of Bobcat Goldthwait, then you probably don’t remember that much more than he was “that weird guy with that weird voiceâ€. The voice has long since been dropped, but the act still remains mostly the same, with the rage now coming through in his…
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PROJECT X * 1/2 (out of ****) Project X is the story of a high school kid named Thomas, and how his birthday party became the biggest house party in the history of Northern Pasadena. In the beginning of the film, it is revealed that Thomas’ dad thinks he is a loser. In the…
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Sherlock Holmes: A game of Shadows *** out of **** This weeks DVD releases comes with Sherlock Holmes: A game of Shadows (2011). This is the sequel to Sherlock Holmes (2009) staring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, and Mark Strong. This time around Robert Downey Jr., as Sherlock Holmes, and Jude Law,…
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The DVDs, Blu Rays, and TVDs of May 22, 2012 CERTIFIED COPY ***1/2 (out of ****) Apparently director Abbas Kiarostami does not watch movies. Any movies. Ever. I watch a shitload of movies, and movies have nothing to do with my job. This guy directs movies, and doesn’t watch any movies at any time for…
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