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It’s Not the End of The World ... Wait, Check That

Photo courtesy of slashfilm.com What’s Happening? Wouldn’t you like to know ...
June 30, 2008




Where and with whom would you want to be at the end of the world?


With retreating intimate foreshadowing and intentionally disturbing, otherwise ordinary shots, M. Night Shyamalan frightens up goose bumps as he relates an event that begins one morning in New York City’s Central Park. Readers, walkers and workers stop, begin uttering repetitive phrases and begin killing themselves by the closest method at hand.


As the circumstance spreads, the camera moves to a skyscraper construction zone, where one by one workers let go of their restraints and plunge to the ground. With the camera tilted upward showing numerous workers on their way down to death, eerie chills pervade É imagine the numbers that plunged from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001?


“The Happening” vaults to a terrorist attack on NYC as evidenced by scenes of breaking news reporters attempting to what and why the occurrenc

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Wall-E an Save-the-Earth Allegory

June 30, 2008



Leave it to the premier animators at Pixar to conceive a futuristic love story between two robots that sends older viewers a clear message that we must take action to take care of Mother Earth. Anchored by detailed animation graphics, &l

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The Strangers — Must-See Suspense

June 20, 2008



Every so often a film sneaks into the release schedule that instantly becomes a “must see.”  Inexplicitly, those exiting “The Strangers” had mixed comments, but one called it “a horror classic” an

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N.Y. City Girls have Fun, Maybe a Little Sex

June 20, 2008



Why do young women go to New York City? Fashion labels and to find love. That’s the message of the four friends — Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall, Charlotte (Kristin Davis), and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) &

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Spoiler Warning! Article About Spoilers!

June 20, 2008



I walked into Spider-man 3 knowing the ending and having watched probably 20-25 minutes of the movie already. I knew the shakedown and nearly scene-by-scene storyboard of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Finally, I kne

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McG’s 'Terminator IV' Faces Actor’s Strike With a Plan

June 5, 2008

Do you remember the injured Byron Leftwich protected and nearly carried by teammates in a heroic, though risky, effort to make a miracle comeback?

“We Are Marshall” director McG must have been told of that adversity; he’

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