Though genuine masterpieces from The Grapes of Wrath to Annie Hall to The Silence of the Lambs have been released in the month of January, Hollywood wisdom holds that this is the time to release films with low expectations while audiences are still catching up on the big year-end films. They are generally at best
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Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: I get it. The date planner, the two potential conquests, the best friend. I understand it all. I just don’t like it. The over abundance of pink is nauseating and why they had
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Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: The warm and soft colors of the poster are visually pleasing. The festival stamps at the top of the poster aren’t helpful and the triptych of the three lead characters is a bit
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Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: Only briefly touched on in the trailer, this image is supposedly one that reveals that Mary Magdalene was pregnant. I don’t see that, but I hope that will be sufficiently explained in the
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Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: Why they had to do an Animal House-style hand-drawn poster is a mystery. It’s not terribly engaging and it seems to make light of the film’s subjects, which may be ok, it’s just
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It’s a bountiful week for classic film releases. Warner Bros., Fox/MGM and Universal have all released films that have been in demand since the dawn of DVD eleven years ago. Ten years after his death, Warner Bros. pays tribute to Frank Sinatra with the release of four collections celebrating his lengthy career. Sinatra’s popularity as
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Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: Garish and obvious, the poster for OSS 117 is anything but exciting. The lead actor being forefront and the attractive women in the back does not add to its enticement value. Trailer Rating:
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Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: Whether or not this poster would appeal to a mass audience is a moot point. That isn’t their target. Instead, the target is the horror audience, which is a little less discerning. However,
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Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: D+ Review: Garish, unpleasant and resembling Rush Limbaugh’s head, this poster is anything but agreeable. This may be part of the producers’ plans, but it’s anything but challenging or attractive, which doesn’t serve to bring
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Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: I’m sure there’s a reason why the poster looks somewhat like a Korean flag, but I can’t understand why. Without a trailer to go off of, it’s impossible to know how comparable the
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Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: What this poster has to do with the film, other than to suggest it’s something of a comedy, is anyone’s guess. It’s not terribly attractive or evocative. Trailer Rating: B Review: A comic-horror
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Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B; C+ Review: In-jokes mixed in with the clutter make this one of the week’s best entries, but not one of the best of the year. It’s relatively simple and somewhat safe, but the skull
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Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C; C Review: Way more simple than it needs to be, this poster is hardly exciting and, while it fits perfectly within the scope of the film’s plot, it isn’t one of those poster’s that’s
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Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: Without resorting to the typical action clichs, the poster manages not to offend too much. While the airbrush style makes it seem too far out of place, it is nevertheless a less obtrusive
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Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: The poster is evocative in that it is perfectly capsulating of the trailer. It’s a strange, idiosyncratic film and the poster is entirely fitting. Trailer Rating: C+ Review: This film looks irritating. It
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