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Movie Reviews: J. Edgar, Melancholia San Diego Reader In this movie, a young American discovers his anti-Red obsession by discovering Bolshevik propaganda flyers on the street and is soon proudly making lists of diabolical Commies. He takes his first significant date to the beautifully lighted but ... See all stories on this topic »

Movie Reviews: The Awakening, Tower Heist, Wuthering Heights, The Greatest ... The Birmingham Post The tension builds as spinetingling events play out, in what is a clever cross between a whodunnit, a ghost story and a romance with overtones of the spooky 2007 film The Orphanage. Yes, it gets a little melodramatic and nonsensical towards the end, ... See all stories on this topic »

First Early Reviews of Looper, the Time Travel Movie That Could Be One of ... io9 Now at last, an early cut of the film has had its first test screening. And this early review of the movie only makes me more excited to see it, praising the performances by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis, playing the same guy 30 years apart. ... See all stories on this topic »

DVD reviews: Harry Potter franchise ends with a bang Reno Gazette-Journal 11 When Harry Potter made his way to the silver screen in 2001, nobody knew if the movie franchise could replicate the immense success of JK Rowling's novels. After all, too many great books have been reduced to so much cinematic rubble. ... See all stories on this topic »

Book Review: Beyond the Boundaries of Bollywood IndiaFM For me, a film is a film, let's take it or leave it. However, if someone comes and tries to dissect and bisect a simple Ramsay horror movie (as is the case in the book) or try to find Nehruvian influences in the world of movies belonging to the 50s, ... See all stories on this topic » IndiaFM

Book Review: Fearmaker: Family Matters The Trades The reader knows from page one that Clayton Castle is a horror movie maker. We have to swallow the fact that tweenage Adam does not know what his father does to afford that big house in Beverly Hills that's home to the family. ... See all stories on this topic » The Trades

Green Lantern – Blu-ray Review Monsters and Critics.com My wife hated the movie and was completely lost once Jordan heads to Oa. Although he is a talented actor with plenty of charm, Reynolds as Hal Jordan doesn't quite work. The actor has proven he has the chops for comic book films (he was perfectly cast ... See all stories on this topic » Monsters and Critics.com

Reviews: The Residents' Randy Rose at the Marsh; 'The Internationalist': Just ... Berkeley Daily Planet (415) 826-5750; themarsh.org —Jet-lagged, sans travel guide and phrase book, business emissary Lowell gravitates towards a sign with his name on it, held up by a statuesque beauty in the airport—and right away finds himself doing a little dance of ... See all stories on this topic »

Movie review: Snow Flower and The Secret Fan New Zealand Herald Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is partially based on the book by Lisa See, which was set in 19th century China and explored the Chinese tradition of "laotong", the arranged lifelong friendship between two young girls. Snow Flower and Lily are 7 years ...