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Movie Review / Movies / Videos
· by · Jun 15, 2012

VIDEO: Corpse Bride (2005)

Joey watches Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, starring the voice of Johnny Depp (who else?) as a shy groom who practices his wedding vows near a grave and ends up married to a murdered bride, voiced by Helena Bonham Carter (who else?). This is one of Joey's favorite Burton films, and he explains why it's basically the grown-up version of Burton's other famous stop motion film, The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Movie Review / Movies / Videos
· by · Jun 5, 2012

VIDEO: Australia (2008)

In Baz Luhrmann's Pearl Harbor, Nicole Kidman is a British aristocrat who inherits a cattle ranch in pre-World War II Australia, and Hugh Jackman is the rancher who helps her drive her cattle across the outback. Spoiler alert: They fall in love. Also, they adopt a half-white/half-Aboriginal boy who can do magic, apparently, and arrive just in time to be caught in a Japanese sneak attack.
Movie Review / Movies / Videos
· by · Jun 1, 2012

VIDEO: American Virgin (2009)

A college student makes a vow of abstinence, and yet still falls prey to a porn producer (Rob Schneider) who plans to put her in his Girls Gone Wild-esque video. Watch as a bunch of no-name actors (including Schneider's daughter, maybe?) go on a road trip to get the incriminating footage back.
Movie Review / Movies / Videos
· by · May 30, 2012

VIDEO: Priest (2011)

After a centuries-long war between humans and vampires, the Church has assumed total control of humanity, with "priests" that are actually elite vampire slayers. Paul Bettany is a veteran priest living an unassuming life, but when vampires kidnap his niece (Lily Collins), he goes to hunt them down, bringing along Karl Urban, Cam Gigandet, and plenty of cool weapons.
Movie Review / Movies / Videos
· by · May 25, 2012

VIDEO: The Italian Job (2003)

The Special Relationship Part Four!

Sursum Ursa continues a series from long ago, where we compare British films against their U.S. remakes! In Part Four, Ursa looks at 1969's The Italian Job with Michael Caine, versus the 2003 remake, er, "homage" starring Mark Wahlberg.
Movie Review / Movies / Videos
· by · May 24, 2012

VIDEO: Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Sofie goes down the rabbit hole for Alice in Wonderland, another visually impressive yet incoherent mess from Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, and Mia Wasikowska as Alice. Watch and wonder how a movie this mediocre made a billion damn dollars.
Movie Review / Movies / Videos
· by · May 19, 2012

VIDEO: The Help (2011)

Emma Stone is a White Savior character in 1960s Mississippi who writes a book about the black maids in town (Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer), which makes all the white people in town feel bad about racism. It also makes a buttload of money for Emma, while leaving the maids worse off then before. Whoops!
Movie Review / Movies / Videos
· by · May 15, 2012

VIDEO: Shark Night 3D (2011)

From the director of Snakes on a Plane, this movie follows a group of college kids (including Sara Paxton and Katharine McPhee, who fortunately spend most of the move in bikinis, but unfortunately never less than that, because this movie is PG-13) as they go on the perfect vacation, only to find out they're being fed to sharks by a group of rednecks intent on making awesome internet videos!
Agonizer / Videos
· by · May 13, 2012

VIDEO: Sofie's Journey to a Fantastic World

This time, Sofie tries something different, as she analyzes the patterns and formulas used in fantasy movies, singing the praises of some big time classics as well as newer blockbuster hits, including Pan's Labyrinth, Chronicles of Narnia, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Avatar, Phantom of the Opera, Labyrinth, and even Twilight!
Movie Review / Movies / Videos
· by · May 11, 2012

VIDEO: Minority Report (2002)

In Steven Spielberg's overlong, needlessly complicated adaption of a Philip K. Dick short story, the Couch Jumper (AKA Tom Cruise) plays a "precrime" detective who stops murders before they happen with the help of blind, androgynous "precogs" who can see the future.

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