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| Aisle Seat 6-18: Lifeforce, Ninja III, Die Hard 5
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Andy Dursin
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6/17/2013 - 9:00 PM |
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| You always hear about people being nostalgic for the summers of their youth. When it comes to the cinema, it certainly seems that there is something valid about looking at recent movie seasons we’ve been having and comparing them to the same period from 15-20 years ago — something confirmed when you look back on past seasons and realize that “all those movies came out then?” |
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| Aisle Seat: MAN OF STEEL Review
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Andy Dursin
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6/13/2013 - 9:00 PM |
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| There’s nothing in MAN OF STEEL that hasn’t been executed before – just not with as much bombast as director Zack Snyder’s 143-minute, epic assault on the senses that, at least, manages to get more things right than Bryan Singer’s ill-conceived 2006 franchise-killer “Superman Returns.” |
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| Aisle Seat 6-11: From MAD MAX to OZ
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Andy Dursin
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6/10/2013 - 9:00 PM |
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| Soon after George Miller’s “Mad Max” and “The Road Warrior” burst onto the cinematic landscape in the early ‘80s, a whole new genre was born where warring gangs ruled the roads, fighting for gasoline and whatever scraps of food were left behind by scavengers. Many of those imitators have been (deservedly) forgotten as the years have passed, yet the MAD MAX TRILOGY itself remains a favorite of fans, with Miller’s brilliantly edited set-pieces keeping viewers enthralled despite the familiar settings of its post-apocalyptic wasteland. |
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| Aisle Seat 5-21: Twilight Time, Parker, Identity Thief, Cloud Atlas
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Andy Dursin
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5/20/2013 - 9:00 PM |
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| J.J Abrams’ 2009 “reboot” of the Star Trek franchise was greeted with a generally warm response from audiences and critics alike. How distressing, then, that his belated follow-up, STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (** of four), is an almost unbearably bombastic remix of “The Wrath of Khan,” so poorly handled that it negates most of the goodwill established by its predecessor. |
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| Aisle Seat 5-7: Shout Factory Wrap, Silver Linings Playbook
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Andy Dursin
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5/6/2013 - 9:00 PM |
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| One of the major cinematic disappointments of its day, the 1974 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s THE GREAT GATSBY (***, 143 mins., PG; Warner) is likely to be reassessed by viewers in lieu of the release of Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming, and obviously more flamboyant, version starring Leonardo DiCaprio that opens May 10th. The perfect way to do so is through Warner Home Video’s gorgeous new Blu-Ray presentation that, if nothing else, plays to the film’s visual strengths. |
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| Aisle Seat 4-23: Django Unchained, Jurassic Park 3D
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Andy Dursin
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4/22/2013 - 9:00 PM |
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| While I’m not the biggest Quentin Tarantino aficionado in the world, I confess the first half of DJANGO UNCHAINED (**½, 165 mins., 2012, R; Weinstein/Anchor Bay) rates as some of his most satisfying work. In Tarantino’s revisionist western/salute to the exploitation genre, slave Django (Jamie Foxx) becomes the unlikely partner of Dr. King Schultz (the brilliant Christoph Waltz), who not only frees Django but brings him into his bounty-hunting venture, performed under the auspices of the U.S. government. |
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| Aisle Seat 4-16: Zulu Dawn, Repo Man
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Andy Dursin
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4/15/2013 - 9:00 PM |
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| It’s amazing how far a proper presentation of a widescreen film can go to restoring its reputation. The 1979 prequel to Cy Endfield’s “Zulu,” ZULU DAWN (***, 117 mins., PG), has been, for years, relegated to truly awful home video releases that mostly cropped the movie’s Panavision cinematography to a degree that severely diminished its sense of scale. Severin Films’ new Blu-Ray/DVD edition not only restores the picture’s scope, but its overall entertainment value in the process. |
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| Aisle Seat 4-9: Killing Them Softly, Hey Good Lookin'
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Andy Dursin
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4/8/2013 - 9:00 PM |
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| The 2013 EVIL DEAD (***) is a stirring remake of Sam Raimi's 1983 original horror outing -- which, by itself, actually isn't all that good, particularly in comparison to "Evil Dead II" (a brilliant comic-riffed remake of its predecessor) and of course "Army of Darkness" (which is as much a playful homage to the fantasies of Ray Harryhausen as it is a horror movie). |
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