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Dec 31, 2013

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The Desolation Of Smaug [review]

I’m a huge Tolkien fan who has read The Hobbit many times, listened to the BBC radio drama more than I can remember and even read John D. Rateliff’s two-volume History of the Hobbit, a very detailed recounting of how the story came to be, including the original draft where Thorin was still called Gandalf. So obviously there was one film this year that I was really, really, really...

Sep 19, 2013

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Elysium review

Elysium seemed to hold the promise of an intelligent scifi-action-thriller with a political/social undercurrent. It also seemed to have the budget and the talent behind it to pull off such an ambitious concept, especially since the writer/director already has experience in this area with “District 9” (which I haven’t seen). Why then, did the movie turn out to be a complete...

Aug 2, 2013

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