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Comedy

Drag Me to Hell Trailer

Sam Raimi, director of the “Evil Dead” trilogy returns to his horror roots after helming the “Spider-Man” films with “Drag Me to Hell,” starring Alison Lohman and Justin Long.

May 11, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong
Comedy

TMA FilmCast #5 – Monsters vs. Aliens

TMA FilmCast #5 – Monsters vs. Aliens

Can Dreamworks’ “Monsters vs. Aliens,” reach the heights of Pixar? We discuss the flick along with some interesting movie news.

Apr 10, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong
Action/Adventure

TMA FilmCast #4 – Knowing, Dragonball Evolution

TMA FilmCast #4 – Knowing, Dragonball Evolution

This week we review Nic Cage’s “Knowing,” and Chow Yun-fat in “Dragonball Evolution.” Pardon the technical difficulties. Towards the end, there’s about 6 minutes of show missing thanks to some faulty...

Apr 8, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong
Action/Adventure

5 Actors Ruined by Winning an Oscar

5 Actors Ruined by Winning an Oscar

The Academy Award is the most prestigious and coveted recognition an actor can receive, and signifies a supreme achievement in the medium of the motion picture–at least that’s the idea. But, there...

Apr 1, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong
Action/Adventure

Knowing (2009) ★★★

Knowing (2009) ★★★

Nicolas Cage is an anomaly. After displaying nothing short of brilliance in gems like The Coens’ “Raising Arizona” and the Charlie Kauffman/Spike Jonze masterwork, “Adaptation,” this oddity of an...

Mar 27, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong
Action/Adventure

Taken (2009) ★½

Taken (2009) ★½

Above all else, “Taken” painfully hammers home the fact that nothing can make up for a bad script. Especially when the script is not just bad, but painfully bad. Astronomically bad. Attempting to...

Mar 20, 2009 / Scott Armstrong
Action/Adventure

John Lennon’s Childhood Told by the Weinsteins

John Lennon, who once said he wasn’t one for autobiography, will be the subject of a new film. The rights to “Nowhere Boy,” a feature-length biopic of sorts based on the childhood of the seminal...

Mar 17, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong
Comedy

“Watchmen” Falls Short

Despite taking the top spot at the box office with $55.7 million, Zack Snyder’s Watchmen fell well short expectations opening weekend. Based on the critically acclaimed and wildly popular graphic...

Mar 9, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong
Comedy

Schultze Gets the Blues (2005)

I have never felt such compassion for a portly, German, retired salt-miner that plays a mean polka piano-accordion. Of course I’ve never encountered such an individual until Schultze Gets the Blues ,...

Sep 1, 2008 / Eric M. Armstrong
Action/Adventure

Death Race (2008)

Mario Kart anyone?! Director Paul W.S. Anderson loosely revisits Roger Corman’s classic “Death Race 2000” (1975) with a fast-paced, brainless thriller full of all sorts of convenient distractions....

Aug 30, 2008 / Eric M. Armstrong
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