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Burlesque Takes Center Stage on Blu-ray!

My girl Christina comes home to Blu-ray this March as Burlesque takes center stage with a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack on the 1st.  The Blu-ray features include six exclusive show-stopping performances, a blooper real, an alternate opening and much more!  This will be a Day 1 purchase for me on the format.  Check out the full […]

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Brian’s TOP 10 Films of 2010!

The calendar year of 2010 started off a little rough, in my opinion, for the world of movies.  It was a little too rough, if you don’t mind me saying.  Anyway, it was not until the month of March that I saw the first film I deemed worthy of even talking about, Shutter Island.  Needless […]

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“The Beautiful People” of ‘Burlesque’

First thing’s first.  Christina Aguilera…where have you been all my life?  Why have I never recognized your…um…talents until 2010?  Well anyway, the original deal between my writing partner Gregg Senko and I was that I would tackle the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows movie review last week and he would take on Burlesque.  After […]

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Blu-ray Earns An ‘Easy A’

Get it?  Blu-ray earns an easy A?  I know.  Stupid!  Of course Blu-ray earns an easy A!  Duh!  Well anyway, what do we have here?  This one is really for all the Amanda Bynes fans out there.  Now why can’t I say that with a straight face?  LOL.  Okay, seriously.  Emma Stone stars in the […]

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An Average Grade for ‘Easy A’

Easy A is a high school comedy that tries to be a fun, modern take on The Scarlett Letter.  It features Emma Stone in the lead role, basically working to establish her as a leading star.  While the film is essentially a chick flick, it seems to have aspirations to push in some satirical elements […]

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There’s No Such Thing As An ‘Easy A’

Easy A is one of those films where let’s face it, if it were not for my wife wanting to see this, I think I could have come up with better ways to spend a free Thursday evening.  But as a critic, it’s your job to subject yourself to torture and to prevent the average […]

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Peter Jackson is in Fine Form with “The Lovely Bones”

Commercials for The Lovely Bones are promoting the movie as a supernatural murder-mystery where a teenage girl who is killed helps her father solve the crime from the after life.  It’s understandable why Paramount and DreamWorks SKG decided to market the movie, based on the 2002 novel of the same name by Alice Sebold, this […]

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In Search of The Lovely Bones

Every once in awhile a movie comes around that truly tests one’s faith.  Spoken like a religious man who understands fate, huh?  I can’t even imagine how I am going to react when my dog dies, whether lone how I would truly respond emotionally, mentally and physically should I ever, God forbid, lose a child.  […]

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