April 2013
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March 2013
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February 2013
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January 2013
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Movie 43 Damaged my faith in Humanity →
To steal from Roger Ebert “I hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, this movie.
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Movie Reviews Gangster Squad, Hitchcock, Zero Dark... →
Critic Sean Patrick reviews the weekend’s new releases. Sean is a member of the Broadcast Film Critic and has been a film critic for more than a decade.
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My Predictions for tonight's Critics Choice Movie... →
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IOWA FILM CRITICS NAME 'LINCOLN' Best PICTURE →
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December 2012
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Unlike many critics, I liked "Deadfall" →
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My review of "Silver Linings Playbook" →
Victor Cruz, favorite Giant →
January 2012
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Five Characters I Hate on Shows That I Love →
here’s something really special about TV shows that movies have never been able to replicate. A movie might turn into a series, spawning two or three sequels (or 17 if it’s a horror movie), giving us a chance to watch the characters develop a little. But with a TV series, we get to watch multiple characters develop a lot. Writers don’t have to condense a lifetime of change into a two hour film,...
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In Defense of War Horse →
December 2011
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An Epic Year End Movie Conversation Day 4
I have been kicking myself for 24 hours for having forgotten to mention the brilliantly dark and fierce Rooney Mara in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo when I raised the topic of leading ladies. Mara was phenomenal here as she was in The Social Network. I have a feeling she’s going to be around for a long time and she’ll make sure that I or anyone else won’t forget...
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An Epic Year End Movie Conversation Day 3
@Reeltalker
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Click the twitter names to visit these folks’ fantastic blogs and the unique conversation they are generating about this epic annual year end movie conversation.
On twitter, @ReelTalker aka Candice raised the topic of Young Adult and this offers us the opportunity to talk about a movie that I love as well as a larger topic about leading ladies in...
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Year End Movie Conversation Day 2
Day two begins with my second contribution. Follow me on twitter @seanpatrikernan
Welcome back Brian, and thanks for that lovely take on Tree of Life. Moving away from Malick and The Help there are so many interesting movies to talk about here. In preparing for our talk Julian raised the topic of Winnie the Pooh which arrived in theaters and disappeared as if it hadn’t been released by the...
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Year End Movie Conversation
My friends and I like to get together at the end of the year and talk movies. Over four days via email we share our thoughts and then post each other’s responses on our blogs.
Candice Frederick from Reel Talk
Julian Stark Movies and Other Things
Brian Dunn BPD Review
Let me begin our second annual year end movie conversation by thanking three of my favorite writers, Candace Frederick,...
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Community is the Best Series on Television 2011 →
2011 in television saw the continued deterioration of network television. Yes, thanks to reality TV and the overall reach of network TV, the networks still control most of the ratings versus cable. That lead is slipping away more and more however with cable premieres beginning to crack the kinds of numbers normally shown by the networks. Both Sons of Anarchy and The Walking Dead out-ranked such...
Movies I Reviewed in 2011
1. Season of the Witch
2. The Dilemma
3. The Green Hornet
4. No Strings Attached
5. The Way Back
6. The Company Men
7. The Mechanic
8. The Roommate
9. Sanctum
10. The Eagle
11. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
12. Cedar Rapids
13. Big Momma’s Like Father, Like Son
14. I Am Number 4
15. Unknown
16. Drive Angry 3D
17. Hall Pass
18. The Adjustment Bureau
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The Way Back Movie Review →
Sometimes a movie will place a critic in the odd position of appreciating the artistry and craftsmanship involved and yet leaves the critic entirely incapable of recommending the film. Director Peter Weir’s “The Way Back” is a movie that inspires such a feeling. The work here is exceptional but it is exceptional in delivering a cinematic experience that I would not recommend to the average...
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The Mechanic Movie Review →
If by some chance you have managed to avoid every other movie about coolly efficient assassins who live alone like monks and share a warrior’s code with old school samurais then you might find the new Jason Statham film “The Mechanic” interesting. If, however, you are like me and you have seen any hit man movie ever you find nothing the least bit original or fascinating about this rehash of...
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The Company Men Movie Review →
John Wells made his nut as the Executive Producer and creator of the hit series ER. For all intents and purposes John Wells never has to work again. Yet, with multi, multi, multi millions of dollars in the bank John Wells is hanging himself out there as a director and making the movie “The Company Men,” a real American Dream movie about a self made man who decides to risk it all for an ideal that...
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No Strings Attached Movie Review →
It’s becoming a modern movie affliction; movies that are more idea than movie. “The Dilemma” is a good example: How do you tell your best friend that his wife is cheating on him? Good idea but that was all anyone seemed to come up with and the film flailed about hoping the cast would find something funny to do. More often than not, the cast never found anything.
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The Green Hornet Movie Review →
Seth Rogan does not exactly cut the figure of a superhero. Luckily, that is kind of the point of this reboot of the old school masked hero “The Green Hornet;” he’s not the real hero. Though he wears a mask and rolls around Los Angeles in a seriously pimped out superhero car, “The Green Hornet” is a make believe hero while his martial artist, super-mechanic pal Kato is the real hero; beating...
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The Dilemma Movie Review →
Yeah, yeah, yeah, my job is to talk about the movie “The Dilemma” but I’m not so much interested in this movie as I am in the fact that Jennifer Connelly, excuse me, OSCAR WINNER JENNIFER CONNELLY, is the fourth lead in a bad romantic comedy. This, I guess, shouldn’t be news; she was after all the sixth lead in the far worse romantic crime “He’s Just Not That into You,” but the...
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Season of the Witch Movie Review →
The first review I wrote in 2011 was of the Nicolas Cage movie “Season of the Witch”
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Interview with the cast of TinTin →
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Glee Season 3:09 'Extraordinary Merry Christmas' →
A review of Glee’s Christmas special.
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18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominations →
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Black Hawk College on Mid-Morning in the Cities →
