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Prometheus – Tastes Great, Less Filling (Movie Review)

Ridley Scott, director of’ Alien and Blade Runner, returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a new mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a mysterious journey to the darkest corners of the universe.  There, they must fight a […]

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Prometheus – Just Seen It Movie Review

Ancient ruins are discovered with a map to an alien world.  Believing it to be the origins of humanity, a team sets of to find the alien home planet.  But after they land, they discover they may have imperiled humankind. Starring Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Idris Elba, Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender.Directed by Ridley Scott and written by  […]

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‘Holmes’ Meets His Match In This Shadowy Sequel

The Victorian boys are back in town.  Sherlock and Watson are back and this time they are wrapped up in a deadly game of shadows, as the threat of Professor Moriarty looms in the background.  The first film, from 2009, turned out to be a lot of fun, given the new take on the character […]

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Aaron’s Top 10 Best and Worst Films of 2010

It’s the end of 2010, and with that I have a list of my favorite movies. The following list contains all of the films that I felt defined what I seek out in most films; namely that they have elements of entertainment, intrigue, or master craftsmanship when it comes to the filmmaking. Some may only have a few of these aspects covered, others may have all three bases dominated. Given my lengthy honorable mention section, there were certainly a good number of films that I had to choose from, but this list, I feel, represents the best of what 2010 had to offer theatrically:

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest Got Me Stung

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest is the final Swedish film adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, which was preceded by The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire.  Unfortunately, the series has delivered in diminishing returns.  This film is in fact the weakest of the trilogy for obvious […]

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