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  • “Saw 3D” movie review from film critic Brett Martin

    “Saw 3D” movie review from film critic Brett Martin

    October 30, 2010 at 12:31 am

    The seventh and FINAL film in the series is in 3D. As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw’s brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of Terror…See my review before you SAW 3D. MPAA Rating R Directed by Kevin Greutert Starring Tobin Bell, Cary Elwes, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Sean Patrick Flanery, Gina Holden, Chad Donella, Laurence [...]

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  • “Hereafter” movie review from film critic Brett Martin

    “Hereafter” movie review from film critic Brett Martin

    October 22, 2010 at 12:09 pm

    While watching this movie, my biggest question was “when it will end” rather than what is in the hereafter. Clint Eastwood’s “Hereafter” is really three small stories in one. Matt Damon is a blue-collar American who has a special connection to the afterlife. Cecile de France plays a French journalist who has a near-death experience that shakes her reality, and a London schoolboy loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each on a path in search of [...]

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  • “Red” movie review from film critic Brett Martin

    “Red” movie review from film critic Brett Martin

    October 15, 2010 at 1:53 pm

    This action-comedy evolves around retired CIA agents who find themselves in a little trouble.Now framed for assassination, they must use all of their collective cunning, experience and teamwork to stay one step ahead of their deadly pursuers and stay alive. To stop the operation, the team embarks on an impossible, cross-country mission to break into the top-secret CIA headquarters. “RED” is not a great film, but it’s pretty amusing, without insulting your intelligence, for the better part of two hours. [...]

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  • “Secretariat” movie review

    “Secretariat” movie review

    October 8, 2010 at 3:04 pm

    This “against all odds” movie is like no other you have seen….Housewife and mother Penny Chenery (DIANE LANE)…along wityh veteran trainer Lucien Laurin (JOHN MALKOVICH)…battle through the male-dominated horseracing business. In the end they take Secretariat on a spectacular journey to become the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years and perhaps the greatest racehorse of all time. Good flick !

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  • “Life As We Know It” movie review

    “Life As We Know It” movie review

    October 8, 2010 at 3:00 pm

    Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel team up to make a romantic comedy, just barely. There is no chemistry between the two and the biggest laughs come from baby “poo” jokes. “Life as we know it” is a stinker and should be as forgettable as a discarded loaded diaper…. Check out my review…

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  • “The Social Network” movie review from film critic Brett Martin

    “The Social Network” movie review from film critic Brett Martin

    October 1, 2010 at 1:09 pm

    In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history… but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications. From director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin comes The Social Network, a film that proves you don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few [...]

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