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The Truth is out there, by all accounts, and so are the aliens. So don’t expect to find any in here. For about the first half of the film I found myself waiting for the investigators to uncover the extraterrestrial connection to the mystery, but at a certain point you just have to wake up to the realization that it’s not going to materialize. No UFOs to see here and, to be honest, not a tremendous amount of paranormal activity. There’s scant little of the big action setpieces we saw in the first movie Read the rest…
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As discussed in our review of Hancock, a sprinkling of real-world grit is fairly commonplace in a superhero movie these days and while Batman Begins did a fair job of that, attributing the hero’s abilities to a spell of martial arts training and providing a Batmobile so obviously a development for the military, its sequel The Dark Knight really makes life hard for itself by taking a stab at re-crafting such potentially ridiculous creations as the Joker and Two-face as real characters. But here’s the twist: it succeeds. Read the rest…
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Queens really prefer to talk about things they like. But in this case, I was moved to start the long-awaited Films @ Redbud Book Club because Queens also hate to be disappointed.
Let me begin by assuring you, I am a fan of M. Night Shyamalan. I enjoyed Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, the Village, even Wide Awake (a very different, early film). I didn’t hate Lady in the Water. But The Happening simply did not Read the rest…
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