Articles by Will Sloan

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  The Marine II

  Roel Reiné

  PUBLISHED Dec 16, 2009

  Every once in a while, a film comes along where the director is so perfectly matched with his material that it seems too good to be true. S...

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  Angels & Demons: Two-Disc Extended Edition

  Ron Howard

  PUBLISHED Dec 3, 2009

  The Da Vinci Code (2006), Ron Howard and Tom Hanks's first attempt at adapting one of Dan Brown's hack-y thrillers, bullied its way to a $2...

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  Everybody's Fine

  Kirk Jones

  PUBLISHED Dec 3, 2009

  When did Robert De Niro become such an old man? In Everybody's Fine, he plays Frank, a lonely recent widower trying to get his three grown...

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  Red Cliff

  John Woo

  PUBLISHED Dec 3, 2009

  John Woo's Red Cliff arrives on these shores with a big disadvantage. Asian audiences saw Woo's $80 million historical spectacle in two sep...

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  Paper Heart

  Nicholas Jasenovec

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2009

  Remember those optical illusions that were popular in the '90s, where if you put your nose up to them, stepped back and got yourself slight...

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  Alien Trespass

  R.W. Goodwin

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2009

  A common criticism levelled at a show like Mystery Science Theater 3000 by its detractors is that the old, low-budget science fiction films...

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  Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

  Shawn Levy

  PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2009

  In the early days of DVD, a two-disc set was something special. Now, in 2009, we have the "Two-Disc Monkey Mischief Pack" of Night at the M...

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  The Blind Side

  John Lee Hancock

  PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2009

  The Blind Side is a good example of competent hackwork, belonging to that much-maligned sub-genre I like to call "inspirational white women...