How to Train Your Dragon 2 really pops in 3-D, yet the animation is so stunning that those hoping to save some cash won’t be cheated if they opt to check it out in one less dimension.
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‘The finest festival I’ve played, hands down’
Marshall has been a part of the SMF family since director Rob Gibson turned everything around, for the better, 11 years ago.
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Covered in color
While its agenda can be political, fanciful or baffling, its first purpose is always to issue the primal call of “I am here! And you are, too!”
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Review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Yes, it’s that good. Bucking the laws of diminishing returns when it comes to sequels, it’s even better than last year’s The Hunger Games, itself no slouch in the entertainment department.
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Review: 12 Years a Slave
Like Roots, 12 Years a Slave turns to recorded history to gather the evidence, but because it’s an R-rated movie rather than a prime-time-friendly TV show, the ghastly sights and accompanying sounds on display in this new piece will disturb far more deeply.
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25 Years of noshing
For those who have been cooking together in this kitchen for all these years, the silver anniversary of the food festival (once known as “The Hard Lox Café” until copyright issues arose) is a commendable occasion.
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Review: Blue Jasmine
Jasmine Francis is the sort of person who causes acquaintances to cross the road to avoid talking with her – and yet, miraculously, we sympathize with her more than expected.
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Review: Lee Daniels’ The Butler
It’s a cheap, disposable parlor trick – a prez dispenser, as it were.
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Review: Elysium
It’s potent material, or at least it would be if the movie surrounding it didn’t take so many shortcuts in terms of its characterizations.
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Review: Pacific Rim
The film’s special effects are superb, yet their frequent and coolly detached employment means that this is basically a CGI circle jerk.
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Review: The Lone Ranger
The movie could lose the insufferable framing device that features Depp getting to wear even more makeup, as he plays Tonto as an elderly man relating the bulk of the movie as a flashback.
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Review: The Heat
Had the screenplay been a bit punchier, this could have been a noteworthy bookend piece to director Paul Feig’s uproarious and gender-smashing Bridesmaids.