Articles by Will Sloan

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  True Grit [Blu-Ray]

  Henry Hathaway

  PUBLISHED Dec 27, 2010

  Early in True Grit, Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne), the notoriously violent U.S. marshal, is negotiating terms with Mattie Ross (Kim Darby),...

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  Film Socialisme

  Jean-Luc Godard

  PUBLISHED Dec 23, 2010

  On the cruise ship that's the backdrop for the first third of Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme ("a symphony in three movements"), nobody i...

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  The Fighter

  David O. Russell

  PUBLISHED Dec 16, 2010

  In his first appearance as Dicky Eklund (a washed-up boxer who reached his peak when he knocked down Sugar Ray Leonard, though some think L...

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  Roger Corman's Cult Classics: Not of This Earth

  Jim Wynorski

  PUBLISHED Dec 3, 2010

  Here are a few things worth considering while watching Not of This Earth (1988), the latest entry in Shout! Factory's line of exploitation...

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  The Expendables [Blu-Ray]

  Sylvester Stallone

  PUBLISHED Dec 3, 2010

  I doubt Sylvester Stallone has a particularly strong singing voice, but he still belongs to a very select group of men who I believe could...

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  Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated

  George A. Romero, Mike Schneider

  PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2010

  You can find at least 34 DVD and Blu-Ray editions of Night of the Living Dead (1968) on Amazon, and that is a mere sampling of the many, ma...

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  The Special Relationship

  Richard Loncraine

  PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2010

  There is a scene in The Special Relationship where Bill Clinton (Dennis Quaid) is in his limo, dressed in a rumpled tuxedo, with tie undone...

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  Tangled

  Nathan Greno, Byron Howard

  PUBLISHED Nov 24, 2010

  There are plenty of visual delights in Tangled, the Walt Disney Animation Studios' 50th film, but I particularly liked Rapunzel's hair. Twe...