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The Cider House Rules (Blu-ray Review)

A powerful and emotional film based on John Irving’s best-selling American classic, The Cider House Rules tells the story of Homer Wells (Maguire), an orphan who is eager to leave the confines of St. Cloud’s Orphanage to explore the world.  A favorite of the orphanage director, Homer has been groomed to be successor to Dr. Larch […]

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‘Our Idiot Brother’ Is A Pretty Nice Guy

In Our Idiot Brother, Paul Rudd is able to do something few actors can in the opening minutes of the film.  He makes us instantly like him.  His character’s hippy-ish, Dude-like persona is non-grating and adorable, despite the fact that his character, Ned, makes some poor choices.  It is just too bad he has to […]

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‘How Do You Know’ When You’ve Wasted 2 Hours of Your Life?

How Do You Know? — Wow!  Look at the lineup…  America’s Sweetheart Reese Witherspoon, funny man Paul Rudd, popular actor Owen Wilson, screen legend Jack Nicholson and TV and movie mogul James L. Brooks involved in this one…  What could go wrong?  Anything and everything…  This 2-hour rom-com is neither romantic, nor comedic…  It’s ANEMIC!  […]

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Night at the Museum (Blu-ray Review)

After  seeing  the  trailer  for  Night  at  the  Museum in  theaters  a  few  years  ago,  I  said  to  myself,  “wow,  this  looks  completely,  and  utterly  unwatchable.”  I  was  prepared  to  go  my  whole  life  without  giving  this  film  a  chance.  Then  of  course,  I  became  a  film  reviewer,  and  I  had  to  play  the  part […]

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Brian’s Top 10 Films of 2009

I waited patiently until after my most recent screening of Sherlock Holmes to compile this list that I have been looking forward to working on all year long.  As Gregg Senko kind of mentioned yesterday, it was not until the second half of the year that I was really able to round up a majority […]

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