Top 5 Movies to See in 2013
By Ethan Harmon Last year gave us a plethora of fantastic movies, from the explosive, chaotic Avengers to the dirty, bloodbath that is Django Unchained. It was a year full of anticipation, suspense, action, adventure, […]
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Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty
By Gary Dowell With the riveting, compelling, and unshakably haunting Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow proves her historic Academy Award-winning The Hurt Locker was no fluke. She takes the heightened realism of that movie one […]
Movie Review of Jack Reacher
By Gary Dowell – comments@blitzweekly.com There’s half of a good movie scattered throughout Jack Reacher; unfortunately, it’s overwhelmed by the half that’s not so great. Produced with the intent to kick-start a franchise, it’s so […]
Les Miserables – Movie Review
By Gary Dowell – comments@blitzweekly.com Tom Hooper’s (The King’s Speech) extravagant movie adaptation of the long-running musical version of Victor Hugo’s tale of the haves and the have-nots, is systematically big, loud, splashy, and melodramatic […]
The Un-Chick Flick: Django Unchained
By Fil Chapa – chapa71@yahoo.com When a film dealing with the hot button issue of illegal immigration first opened in the early 1980s, critics widely condemned Oliver Stones’ stereotypical depiction of immigrants and overuse of […]
The REVIEWser: This Is 40
By Gary Dowell – www.movieink.net With 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up, writer-director Judd Apatow gave a white bread Middle America a voice with which to shout its meager frustrations while simultaneously deflating them. […]
Movie Review: The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey
By Gary Dowell www.movieink.net When The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring arrived in theaters in 2001 it marked a watershed moment in film: It was the first big-budget live action fantasy […]
Skyfall: Movie Review
Freddy on Films Forget that the dismal misstep of Quantum of Solace ever occurred. Totally wipe it from history. The old 007 is back. First time Bond director Sam Mendes takes you on a non-stop […]
The Man with the Iron Fists Review
The Man with the Iron Fists Review Written by Ethan Harmon Anyone who is a fan of rap will tell you that the Wu Tang Clan is one of the best groups that the genre […]