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So finals are over and Spring Break has set in. This term has been a lot of fun, watching movies every week and reviewing them, but there were a lot of movies that I caught and just didn't have the time to review fully, or chose a different movie for that week. So I thought I might do a few short reviews for those films, just to wrap up the term.



It's Complicated:



I saw this just before the term started, so it's been a while. Starring Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, and Alec… Continue

Walking into this movie with certain expectations is not difficult. In fact, the difficult part is not expecting something, anything, good or bad. Why? Because Tim Burton is that director that is so well known for a very specific style that, like it or hate it, comes with such expectations. For example, I expected it to be weird. Tim Burton excels in the strange, from Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Big Fish. No matter what the movie is about,… Continue

First off, I’m pretty sure the title here is sarcastic.

Brooklyn’s Finest is the story of three different cops in Brooklyn, whose stories only intersect in fleeting moments, each one carrying their own story arch. First we have Eddie (Richard Gere), a half drunken police

officer a week away from retirement. He is a wash out, receives no respect from

his peers, mostly because he has done nothing in his…

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Buddy cop movies are their own kind of classic. Fun, action packed, engaging, they’re known to be comedic (but aren’t always), pitting two mismatched people together to solve a crime or save someone. Or something. The plot is usually simple: bad guy needs stopping. It’s down to our boys (who might not even be boys, but most of the time they are) to work for the police (though sometimes one of them isn’t even a cop). It’s an easy, open formula, and has been quite…

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