Most animated films are made for kids but contain just enough smarts to entertain adults. Rango is made for adults and contains just enough fun to entertain kids. Rango, which just may be the most beautiful and certainly among the strangest films you will see all year, is Disney by way of Hunter S. Thompson. [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Zombieland is precisely the movie I was hoping it would be — laugh-out-loud funny, gratuitously gory and endlessly entertaining. It’s fitting that much of the film takes place in an amusement park, because “Zombieland” is one thrill [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
My Sister’s Keeper is the sort of film that requires a pre-film checklist. Overpriced soda? Check. Overpriced popcorn? Check. Pocketful of tissues? Check. Based on the book by best-selling author Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper is directed [...]

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