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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) (movie review).
‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ is the first film of Peter Jackson’s follow-up trilogy to ‘The Lord Of The Rings’. The result…
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December 2012
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Connected (2012) (movie review).
‘Connected’ is a story with two unfolding plots. One is Science Fiction and the other is a love story. But the love story…
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Hitchcock (film review by Mark R. Leeper)
‘Hitchcock’ is the story of the great director, his marriage, his relationships with his starring actresses and the making of his most easily…
November 2012
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Life Of Pi (2012) (film review).
Capsule: ‘Life Of Pi’ joins ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’ (1973) and ‘The Little Prince’ (1974) as being an adaptation of a philosophical book that…
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Skyfall (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
James Bond is after a stolen list of MI6 agents who have been placed in terrorist cells. At the same time. all of…
October 2012
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Argo movie review (2012) (Mark’s take).
Argo – a film review by Mark R. Leeper Set during the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, ‘Argo’ tells a strange but true footnote to…
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Frankenweenie (2012) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper)
Tim Burton returns to his roots making a feature-length version of one of the two short films that made him famous. Filling the…
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The Master (2012) (film review).
In the years after WWII Freddie Quell, an unbalanced and misfit Navy veteran, finds and comes under the sway of an American cult…
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Arbitrage (2012) (film review).
Arbitrage (a film review by Mark R. Leeper) Richard Gere, having grown into looking the role of a silver fox of finance, plays…
September 2012
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Adventures in Plymptoons (2012) (Film Review).
Many animators make films that give the impression that anything could happen. But Bill Plympton’s cartoons (a.k.a. Plymptoons) make that what-could-happen the anythingest.…
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Super Hero Party Clown (Mark’s movie review).
An amiable, slight, and overly familiar story gives us a boy so shy he cannot talk to the girl he likes without wearing…
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The Possession (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
A family going through a painful divorce is also subjected to the ravages of a dybbuk, a possessing spirit from Jewish folklore. Until…