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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is the first popcorn hit of the summer, a mindless, high-fructose, high-octane adventure that demands very little of your intellect but is sure to get your heart racing. Like the [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Benjamin Franklin once said, “Fish and guests stink after three days.” The same could be said of movie franchises that overstay their welcome and don’t know when to pack up gracefully. The good news is, Shrek Forever [...]

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Robin Hood opens with a series of olde tyme title cards, the sort you’d see in the Errol Flynn version of the story. This thoughtful esthetic throwback, occurring in the first seconds of the film, is where [...]

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Letters to Juliet is the perfect example of formula done right, buttressing a familiar story rather than hamstringing it. It is the sort of wish fulfillment movie you actually wish for. Sure, you know more or less [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Sequels that outstrip originals are like students who surpass teachers. It is an exceedingly rare event and worthy of adulation (provided, of course, the original was worth something). For all others, to draw near their shadow will [...]

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Just in time for Mother’s Day is a documentary that should come with a warning label — “Caution: this film contains explicitly adorable infants. It will make you want to run out and have babies.” The wholly appropriate, if unimaginatively, named Babies, follows four children in San Francisco, Tokyo, Outer Mongolia and Namibia from birth [...]

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