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AWFJ 2017 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 09, 2018
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The Shape of Water wins Best Film, and Best Director goes to Guillermo del Toro. Agnes Varda is Defying Age and Ageism, and Hollywood’s sexual tormentors are inducted in the AWFJ Hall of Shame.

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The Big Sick movie review: girlfriend in a coma, the rom-com

Fri, Jul 28, 2017
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A rom-com for people who hate rom-coms. A painfully funny movie, full of enrapturing emotion that captures the glorious contradictions of all kinds of love.

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Unlocked movie review: the spy who broke the female mold

Fri, May 05, 2017
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There’s stuff in this spy thriller that’s fresh, and lots that’s familiar, but Noomi Rapace using her brains and brawn to fight bad guys is a genuine thrill.

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Deepwater Horizon movie review: blood for oil

Mon, Sep 26, 2016
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Immensely intense and suspenseful. Disaster filmmaking at its most gripping, yet there is nothing in the least bit exploitive or sensationalized about it.

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Penguins of Madagascar movie review: it’s cheezey-dibble-icious

Fri, Dec 05, 2014
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Gloriously bonkers. Like, Looney Tunes levels of cartoon madness. You will laugh your homo sapiens head off.

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Red 2 review: global positioning

Fri, Aug 09, 2013
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Smart, breezy spy action, with an of-the-moment vibe that takes it post-post-9/11 and into the Wikileaks era of global politics.

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Warm Bodies (review)

Mon, Feb 11, 2013
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Contents itself with the mildest of tweaks at both the zombie and the romantic-comedy genres… (new on DVD/VOD in the US and Canada)

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Transformers: Dark of the Moon (review)

Tue, Jun 28, 2011
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Ewww. It’s got Michael Bay’s jingo-jism all over it.

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best and worst movie quotes of 2010

Tue, Apr 05, 2011
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Oh yeah, I’m late with this. I carefully gather them all year long and then I never get around to posting them. So here they are at long last. And for 2011, I’m just gonna post ’em as they come in. So there.

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question of the day: Who is your favorite hammy actor?

Fri, Nov 26, 2010
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Let’s just call it a given that William Shatner is probably at the tops of many a list. Who else? Al Pacino? John Malkovich? Jim Carrey? Are there any actresses who could be called hammy?

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