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THE GUARD - Not Your Average Comedy

“I’m Irish. Racism is part of me culture.” So says the police officer of the title, Sgt. Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson). The Guard crashes right into stereotypes galore, racial and otherwise. To begin with, Sgt. Boyle is ignorant, he’s lazy, he only enforces laws when he feels like it, […]

First Impressions: John Carter

I wrote this review when John Carter first came out. I still feel the same way about this future-cult classic. I saw John Carter yesterday and I really enjoyed it. The movie, based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars (1912), balances action and world building better […]

MYMHM 2012: Bernie

Recently tagged “most underappreciated film of 2012” by the Los Angeles Times, Bernie (2012) is based on the true story of Bernie Tiede (Jack Black), who befriended and eventually murdered an elderly woman, Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), in Carthage, Texas. We’ve picked it as one of our Movies You May Have Missed […]

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