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Fair Game Review

People complain that the government is full of “red tape.” No one can get anything done because of all of the bureaucracy and paper-pushing. There is a memo for everything from weapons of mass destruction to paperclip storage. The list of agencies winds like a maze and their list of duties stretch from border to border. It’s all a bit much. And Fair Game, a political thriller starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts, suffers under the weight of the complexity of its focal bureau — the CIA.

The Next Three Days Review

The last three years, the last three months, and the last three days are presented in regularly identified acts of Russell Crowe’s latest thriller The Next Three Days. It’s your typical action thriller with a central character on the run who must beat the odds to escape. In this case it is John Brennan (Russell Crowe) who decides after three years of fighting through the court system to help his wife Lara (Elizabeth Banks) beat a murder conviction to spring her from prison. The thriller packs a punch but is inevitably both generic and preposterous. Albeit entertaining, The Next Three Days is ultimately forgettable.

First look at Karl Urban in “Dredd”

Here is a first look at Karl Urban as Judge Dredd in Pete Travis’ adaptation of the Judge Dredd comic series. Based on the photo obtained from 2000adOnline.com, Moviefone surmises that this film won’t feature “the cartoonish, overly plastic” quality that kept audiences away from the 1995 comic adaptation, which was also named Judge Dredd.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Review

Opening with a rusty looking version of the Warner Bros. logo, an ominous warning, it is clear that we are getting a very different type of Harry Potter. Director David Yates sets out to show a gloomy, bleak world where war and repression are about to inflict the Wizard world.

Box Office Wizard (11.19.10)

Frankly, on the day the final “Harry Potter” film comes out, it would be shameful to enter a competition called Box Office Wizard! Predict which five movies will place in the top five of this weekend’s U.S. domestic box office. It’s that easy. I will make my own predictions here and explain them to you each week to give you some sort of reference point.

Harry Potter Countdown: “The Half-Blood Prince” Review

It’s day six of our Harry Potter Countdown and the big day is nearly here. And to add to your anticipation for that big event we are reviewing 2009’s entry in the series Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
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After David Yates made a very dark, mature and stylist blockbuster and one of the best Harry Potter films Warner Brother showed their faith by allowing him to direct the rest of the series. But whilst he did not quite drop the ball, he was butter fingered this time round.

Nolan and Snyder still seeking their Man of Steel

Producer Christopher Nolan and director Zack Snyder are searching for the actor who will play Clark Kent in the upcoming film Superman: Man of Steel. Snyder is tweaking the script with David S. Goyer, who conceived the story with Nolan.