Articles By Leo Petaccia
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The Ruins Carter Smith Published Apr 04, 2008Take a fatter-looking Iceman from those X-Men movies, add some tragically dumb blonde and Donnies weird girlfriend from Donnie Darko, toss...
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21 Robert Luketic Published Mar 28, 2008"Were not gambling," quips a haughty MIT math professor to his newest student and soon to be crime accessory. As if locked in a spell, that...
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Rendition Gavin Hood Published Feb 22, 2008Among last years slew of anti-war, post-9/11 message films, Gavin Hoods Rendition still stands its ground and provokes enough thought to b...
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Charlie Bartlett Jon Poll Published Feb 22, 2008Charlie Bartlett is one big hodgepodge of Rushmore, Igby Goes Down, Thumbsucker, Ferris Buellers Day Off and a whole slew of other coming-o...
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Vantage Point Pete Travis Published Feb 22, 2008Chiming in on Hollywoods conveyer belt of post-9/11 paranoia is director Pete Traviss Vantage Point. I say this because Vantage Point coul...
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In Bruges Martin McDonagh Published Feb 07, 2008If youre familiar with Colin Farrells work, youre still trying to shake those images of a moustachioed Miami cop with a mullet and a bad...
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The Invasion Oliver Hirschbiegel Published Feb 04, 2008This ones a toughie. On one hand, The Invasion is pitiable; it was swiftly panned upon theatrical release this past fall and rightfully so....
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First Sunday David E. Talbert Published Jan 10, 2008I had a feeling this would happen. It was only a matter of time before Tyler Perrys black comedy playbook would get aped for the sake of a...
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Shoot Em Up Michael Davis Published Jan 05, 2008Its hard to take action seriously these days. Take this sorry excuse for a John Woo rehash for instance. Youve got the "anti-hero who look...
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Mr. Bean's Holiday Steve Bendelack Published Dec 19, 2007Mr. Beans Holiday opens with our protagonists glorious close up a great big devilish grin, ear to ear because the church raffle he nea...
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Hot Rod Akiva Schaffer Published Nov 23, 2007The next generation of Saturday Night Live talent has presented us with Andy Samberg. This can be a frivolous thing to grasp, given that tha...
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Crime Novel (Romanzo Criminale) Michele Placido Published Nov 23, 2007Remember Stand by Me and that trio of young, audacious swains who thought they could conquer the world with a profuse supply of Pez and hear...
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Frankenstein Glenn Jordan Published Nov 09, 2007Dan Curtiss Frankenstein is like enduring two hours of Dr. Who. If this is your style, then have fun. Otherwise, know that this was made in...
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Lions for Lambs Robert Redford Published Nov 09, 2007Robert Redford loves truth, justice and freedom. He may not know how to express all that with enough interest to hold an audiences attentio...
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Night of the Living Dead 3-D Jeff Broadstreet Published Oct 26, 2007Whether or not youre a fan of this genre, theres no denying that George Romeros original flesh-eating freak fest has been whored around i...
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Rendition Gavin Hood Published Oct 18, 2007In director Gavin Hoods (Totsi) take on our post-9/11 times, the White House tortures innocent people and manages to get away with it. Our...
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Entourage Season Three Part 2 Published Oct 17, 2007Hot rising star Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier, getting by further on pretty eyes than just about any living actor) is surfing the crest of p...
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We Own the Night James Gray Published Oct 12, 2007Whatever happened to the good old "policier? It seems like eons ago when Scorsese shovelled shit to show us how cops and robbers really get...
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The Prisoner: or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair Petra Epperlein Published Oct 03, 2007Yunis Khatayer Abbas, like countless other Iraqi journalists, has a sad story to tell. Abbas was arrested and taken from his home by America...
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The Kingdom Peter Berg Published Sep 28, 2007Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Kingdom, or CSI: Saudi Arabia. Seriously, when everythings said and done, it feels like youve just en...