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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Movie Reviews | Book Reviews


'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo': The Reviews Are In!
MTV.com
Even though the story is familiar — the book sold 65 million copies — Fincher's take on the creepy yarn has his unmistakable stamp, starting with the opening credits." — Claudia Puig, USA Today "The resulting film is neither better nor worse than ...
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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Movie review by Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan reviews 'Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol' Tom Cruise is back in action as IMF operative Ethan Hunt.
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Movie review by Betsy Sharkey
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey reviews 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows' staring Robert Downey Jr.
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War Horse - movie review
The Vine
It's a weepie that recalls classic moments in animal-led emotional devastation like National Velvet, Lassie Come Home and Black Beauty (it's no mistake that the source text, Michael Morpurgo's wonderful book, was described as "Black Beauty goes to ...
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Book Review: Gregory Paul Williams' 'The Story of Hollywood' Gets Paperback ...
Broadway World
The book is divided into seven fascinating sounding chapter headings: 1. In the Valley of the Cahuengas, 2. A City of Homes, 3. No Dogs, No Movies, 4. Main Street of the Movies, 5. Boulevard of Broken Dreams, 6. Radio Days and 7. Lost Hollywood. ...
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Second Opinion: 'The Adventures of Tintin'
Crave Online
By William Bibbiani In contrast to our other, less-than-enthused review of The Adventures of Tintin from earlier this year, I offer the following counterpoint: The Adventures of Tintin rocks harder than the rockiest rock. ...
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BOOK REVIEW: 'El Gavilan': Nuanced Crime Thriller Explores Tensions Between ...
HNN Huntingtonnews.net
"El Gavilan" is a nuanced thriller with very graphic sex scenes and equally graphic violence (I would give it a hard R or a NR if it were a movie, which I'd like to see made from this book). The novel is a reminder that Hispanic immigration -- both ...
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Book Review: And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J. Shields
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
We baby boomers of course also know Kurt Vonnegut for Slaughterhouse Five which was also a popular movie at that time. So it comes as quite a surprise to discover that Kurt Vonnegut was actually more conservative and part of the "establishment" than ...
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DVD reviews: 'Margin Call' and 'Warrior'
Amarillo.com (blog)
"Margin Call," still screening this week at Westgate Mall 6 in Amarillo, is a different kind of horror movie. Instead of slashers, the villains are venal Wall Street-types in 2008 who, realizing just how toxic their assets are, decide to save their own ...
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Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The (2011) - Reelviews Movie Reviews
The dark seeps out of the screen like living thing, evidence that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is more than a paycheck to director David Fincher, who has improbably affixed his own imprint on a movie that comes weighted down with ... by Steven Zaillian, Fincher strips the material to its skeleton, then adds back the sinew and tissue to create something that is unmistakably The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but in no way a carbon copy of the earlier Swedish movie or the book itself. ...
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