Movie Review of Broken City
By Drew Davis Broken City begins in a fast-paced muddle. It starts at a blurry crime scene, and moves quickly to a tense courtroom. At the same time that New York cop Billy Taggert (Mark […]
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The Answer Guy: January 16, 2013
Dear Arthur, As a former exotic dancer I find it hard to find guys who don’t breakout into a 100-meter dash as soon as I tell them. I tried not mentioning it, but it occupied […]
Gangster Squad
By Gary Dowell Cursed by bad timing and a severe lack of originality, Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad is every bit as generic as its title indicates. It’s certainly pretty to look at as its visual […]
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, […]
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 […]
YouTube Is Scaring Me To Death
By Peter Gerstenzang Usually, when I wander over to YouTube, I’m looking for diversion, some distraction from my day-to-day troubles. But in recent months, they’ve started posting really disturbing ads with the videos. Which promote […]
Wayans World
By Ethan Harmon The Wayans brothers are a famous, multi-talented bunch that have been in dozens of movies, bringing laughs to audiences throughout the world. From In Living Color to Scary Movie, the Wayans brothers […]
Speaking the Truth
By C.Patterson True comedy doesn’t exist in your comfort zone. It resides in places that are often too taboo to speak of or too sensitive to touch. You have to be imaginative, immutable, and possess […]
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 […]