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Theatrical Review: Source Code

April 3rd, 2011 · No Comments

A school teacher named Sean Fentress wakes from a disturbing sleep on board a train.  He’s sitting across from his friend an attractive woman named Christina Warren.  Christina’s engaging Sean in some banter, but he’s hugely disoriented.  He believes himself to be an Air Force Captain named Colter Stevens and with immediate memories of being [...]

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Theatrical Review: Sucker Punch (Tee’s Take)

April 1st, 2011 · 3 Comments

(Note: The following review was ungraciously swiped from Tee Morris’ blog at www.teemorris.com.  This review is not printed by permission, but is instead published under the Fair-Use doctrine of copyright law. Specifically the ‘Triple-Dog Dare you’ portion of the law.) Director and Writer Zack Snyder can really make a beautiful movie. Snyder set his own style with films like 300 [...]

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Theatrical Review: Sucker Punch

March 27th, 2011 · 2 Comments

As this movie begins, we see the 20-year old girl who becomes known as Baby Doll on a theatrical stage, which immediately shifts over to her “real” life in presentation.  She’s frightened because her mother is at death’s door and she and her little sister are looking at spending their lives with their wicked stepfather.  [...]

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Theatrical Review: Limitless

March 20th, 2011 · No Comments

Eddie Morra is a divorced writer who’s having some trouble getting motivated.  He has a book contract to write a science fiction novel, but he can’t even put the first word down.  His current girlfriend is at the end of her rope with him and leaves him.  The world is pretty much weighing down on [...]

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Theatrical Review: Battle: Los Angeles

March 12th, 2011 · No Comments

It’s August of 2011 and the world is gripped by the news of groups of meteors headed to Earth.  The meteors are poised to hit 12 major populated seaport areas around the globe. The evacuation of these cities is taking place under military control and soon they reason that there’s more to this than an [...]

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Theatrical Review: The Adjustment Bureau

March 6th, 2011 · No Comments

David Norris is an energetic New York Congressman who’s now making a bid for one of the state’s senatorial seats.  David is an amiable guy, running on the idea that he’s more appealing to a younger voter and he has great plans for the future.  David’s got a bit of a past though and it [...]

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Theatrical Review: Drive Angry 3D

February 27th, 2011 · No Comments

John Milton is a man on a mission.  He’s found that a heinous act of violence has been committed against a member of his family.  He’s on the warpath to find the man who perpetrated this act, Jonah King, the leader of a devil worship cult.  Nothing will stop Milton, but he needs help and [...]

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Theatrical Review: The Illusionist

February 20th, 2011 · No Comments

Originally, this was not going to be the movie that I was intending to see this weekend.  That would’ve been Unknown with Liam Neeson.  But unexpectedly (for me, anyway), Sylvain Chomet’s newest movie, The Illusionist came here to St. Louis, and further at one of my favorite theatres in town, so I had to leap [...]

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Theatrical Review: The Eagle

February 13th, 2011 · No Comments

In 120 A.D., as Rome sought to expand it’s empire to the North and the West, they encountered sizable resistance from the Picts in Britain.  Seeking to take control, Rome’s Ninth Legion with 5,000 soldiers fell before the Picts, in disgrace to their country. In the 20 years that have passed at the start of [...]

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Theatrical Review: Sanctum

February 6th, 2011 · No Comments

Based on a true story, Sanctum tells the tale of a group of underwater cave divers as they attempt to explore one of the largest and least accessible cave settings on the planet, the Esa-ala caves in the South Pacific.  Thanks to an incredible storm coming their way, the team’s exit from the system is [...]

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