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Top 5 Scathing Movie Reviews of 2011 Houston Press (blog) 30 2012 at 8:00 AM ​As the February 26 Academy Awards ceremony approaches, all 2011's best and worst movie lists have already been circulated and debated ad infinitum. But some of the year's movie reviews have proved even more interesting than the ... See all stories on this topic » Houston Press (blog)

Book Review: 'The Crossing: A Zombie Novella' by Joe McKinney FEARnet.com I finished Joe McKinney's The Crossing: A Zombie Novella a day or so before going to see the new Liam Neeson movie The Grey. (Not exactly a feel-good combo, I know.) I was completely absorbed in the movie at the time, but as I sat down to review my ... See all stories on this topic » FEARnet.com

Movie Review: 'One For the Money' Starring Katherine Heigl Icon Vs. Icon The movie adaptation of Janet Evanovich's book, "One For the Money," was torn apart by the press. A reviewer for New York Magazine headlined his piece, "Don't Spend Money on One for the Money." Critics describe the film as "unnatural," "not worth it," ... See all stories on this topic »

Review: 'John Dies at the End' Crave Online By Fred Topel John Dies at the End is the perfectly fun midnight movie. It's got crazy monsters, a wacky but logical plot and sharp humor. Every scene feels like it could be a whole movie, and it's not that we get the highlight reel, we actually get ... See all stories on this topic »

Trojan Tribune: Book Review: The Hunger Games my.hsj.org It is the first book of The Hunger Games trilogy that is followed by Catching Fire and Mocking Jay. Being a New York Times best seller, it can match up to the Harry Potter Series, the Twilight Saga, and the rest of the popular teen books. See all stories on this topic »

DVD Review: NAKED CAME THE STRANGER Twitch Naked Came the Stranger has a very interesting history, even before it became a film. The back story involving the book and its author(s) is detailed in this package, but I'll give you the Reader's Digest version. In 1969, a columnist at Newsday ... See all stories on this topic » Twitch

Sundance 2012 Review: FILLY BROWN Twitch by Alex Koehne, January 30, 2012 9:08 PM I can't say enough good about Filly Brown, the first film from directing team Michael Olmos and Youssef Delara. They have both directed their own features independently, but clearly this was a team that was ... See all stories on this topic »

Book review: The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, by Andrew Feinstein Taipei Times By Bradley Winterton / Contributing Reporter This book, though lively, makes extremely depressing reading. Its subject is the arms trade, as pursued by both private arms traders and governments, with corruption — bribes paid to secure deals for your ... See all stories on this topic »

Movie Review: Modest, Chilling TEXAS KILLING FIELDS Tweaks Conventional Cop ... CultureMob (blog) by Josh Katz | 01/30/12 | Reading the reviews for director Ami Canaan Mann's Texas Killing Fields, one senses a profound air of disappointment. Nick Pinkerton at The Village Voice called the film "a chaos of underdeveloped relationships and frayed ... See all stories on this topic »