In the Brandon Fibbs Book of Movieisms it is stated: “A bad film is not the worst kind of film. A bad film is simply bad. It does not aspire to be anything better. But a film with potential to be great that squanders its promise by either action or inaction is a far more [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Director Judd Apatow has made a quite different film — both narratively, stylistically and tonally — than those that recently perched him squarely among Hollywood vaulted royalty (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up). He shows much greater depth [...]

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There is a sequence in the new Star Trek in which one character attempts to unseat another’s command by arguing that the leader is too emotionally compromised by the situation to be of any [...]

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