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can you spot the bullshit in this description of Timur Bekmambetov’s Warriors of Oz?

Wed, Jul 24, 2013
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The female protagonist has been scrubbed from this “classic story.” Why, Bekmambetov? You got a problem with women?

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter movie review: met on a great battlefield

Tue, Jun 19, 2012
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Timur Bekmambetov treats his pile-on of pulpy historical pseudo revisionism sincerely, but cheerfully so: its subversively gentle sense of humor is never so earnest that it stumbles over into cheese.

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I kinda don’t get why this ‘Apollo 18’ poster is supposed to be so cool…

Wed, Dec 01, 2010
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Am I alone in being totally underwhelmed by our first peek at what should be a cool idea: a faux-found-footage fake documentary about the “actual” final Apollo mission that NASA covered up…

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April 16: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings

Fri, Apr 16, 2010
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We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but all that street crime isn’t gonna fight itself, and you’ve got to pick up your cape and mask from the dry cleaners, too. But you can have a multiplex-like experience from the comfort of your own sofa with a collection … more…

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