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Damning with Faint Praise: JOHN DIES AT THE END

Dave and John, two college drop-outs, are all that stands between humanity and threats from parallel universes. Or John is dead and Dave has...

AdminMay 10, 2013

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Damning with Faint Praise: THE LOSERS

The US Army (and the CIA) recruit a small group of outlaw bikers for a suicide mission behind enemy lines in Cambodia during the...

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Damning with Faint Praise: THE DEBT

The Debt bounces back and forth between 1965 and 1995. In 1965, a team of Mossad agents infiltrate East Berlin in search of a...

AdminApril 24, 2013

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Damning with Faint Praise: TEXAS KILLING FIELDS

Mike Souder (Sam Worthington, Terminator Salvation, Clash of the Titans, Avatar) and Brian Heigh (Jeffery Dean Morgan, Watchmen, The Losers) are cops in southeastern...

AdminApril 17, 2013

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Damning with Faint Praise: JACK REACHER

A former Army sniper gets framed for a mass murder. When the police pressure him to confess, all he says is “Get Jack Reacher.”...

AdminApril 10, 2013

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Damning with Faint Praise: RANGO

Rango is a metaphorical chameleon. He likes to play roles, with his toys in his terrarium playing the rest of the case in his...

AdminApril 3, 2013

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Damning with Faint Praise: GAME OF DEATH

No, not the good one with Bruce Lee. This is a 2010 action movie with Wesley Snipes, Zoe Bell, Robert Davi, Ernie Hudson, and...

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Damning with Faint Praise: VIVA RIVA!

Riva returns to his hometown of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He’s been away for 10 years. Some things are still...

AdminMarch 18, 2013

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Crazy Uncle Rich’s Movie Nook Presents KUNG FU THEATER

When I was a teenager living in Connecticut, my favorite television was Kung Fu Theater. It came on around noon on Sundays, and I...

AdminMarch 15, 2013

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Damning with Faint Praise: FUDOH: THE NEW GENERATION

Riki Fudoh’s dad is a big wheel in the Yakuza. If you’re not aware of the Yakuza, they are a Japanese organized crime group....

AdminMarch 11, 2013

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Zero Hour S1E????

On March 1st, the news broke: ABC cancelled Zero Hour. Zero Hour debuted on February 14th with a 1.4 rating in the 18-49 demographic...

AdminMarch 8, 2013

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Damning with Faint Praise: PETE SMALLS IS DEAD

KC Monk (Peter Dinklage) used to be a Hollywood bigshot. He has an Academy Award for a screenplay that he wrote. After a while,...

AdminMarch 4, 2013

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Damning with Faint Praise: NORWEGIAN NINJA

During the Cold War, the CIA runs Operation Stay Behind. That operation stages attacks on neutral and Western-allied nations, frames the Soviet Union, and...

AdminFebruary 25, 2013

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Damning with Faint Praise: SHOOT THE HERO

Kate (Samantha Lockwood) wants Nate (Jason Mewes) to take things to the next level. She thinks he’s not serious about their relationship. Nate wants...

AdminFebruary 18, 2013

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Damning with Faint Praise: THE LAST ENEMY

Stephen Ezard (Benedict Cumberbatch) returns to a near-future England in the wake of his brother’s death. He meets his brother’s widow, and the seriously...

AdminFebruary 12, 2013

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Damning with Faint Praise: THE RUM DIARY

Johnny Depp once again dons his alter ego as Hunter S. Thompson…oh, wait, I mean he plays Kemp, an alcoholic reporter hoping to find...

AdminFebruary 4, 2013

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Damning with Faint Praise: RUBBER

Somewhere in the American desert, a tire named Robert comes to life. It makes its first wobbling attempts to move across the landscape. Gaining...

AdminJanuary 28, 2013

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Damning with Faint Praise: KABOOM

Smith (Thomas Dekker) is a gay college kid with a straight roommate and a lesbian best friend. One night at a party he takes...

AdminJanuary 21, 2013

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Damning with Faint Praise: LOOPER

In Looper, the long-awaited re-teaming of star and writer-director from Brick (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who also acted as executive producer and Rian Johnson, respectively), a...

AdminJanuary 14, 2013

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Bros Before Ghosts

Thanks to Netflix Instant Watch, I have found myself mildly fascinated by the show Ghost Adventures. While I would approach any similar phenomenon suspiciously...

AdminMarch 10, 2011