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Superman Returns

I was not overly impressed.
With that said, it was a good movie. Maybe the hype I’ve been hearing since before the movie hit theaters had built it up too much.
Superman/Clark Kent (Brandon Routh) returns after a five-year search for his home planet. He comes home to find Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth) with a [...]

Accepted

Yes, another college movie about partying and all the fun you’ll have when you’re there.
But, is there something more? I would go as far as saying there is. While, for the most part, this is another rehash of the onslaught of college movies that we’ve seen for the past five years, this movie [...]

Junebug

I am in awe of Amy Adams’ performace in director Phil Morrison’s take on the South. She played the perfect southern girl. She talked a lot (probably making up for more than half the film’s dialogue), but she did it right.
Usually, when someone recommends a film to me and say it is a [...]

Empire Falls

So, I finally caved and bought the DVD version of Empire Falls based off Richard Ruso’s novel. And the first thing I have to say is that it was good. Not as good as the novel, but still good. I actually didn’t know that Russo himself had written the screenplay. [...]