All posts by Chris Heller
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Bully for 'Bully'
There's no such thing as an honest documentary. Any one, told in any way, will be twisted and tacked into place by a filmmaker's intentions....
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Bully Pulpit
Last month, Bully was fighting for its life. After being handed an R rating by the Motion Picture Association of America -- effectively ruining any...
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Cabin Fever
Don't watch the trailer, don't ask your friends, and above all else, don't read about it online. (Except, um, here.) The Cabin in the Woods...
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Comic Culture
Fandom has reached something akin to a roaring pitch on the fringes of today's pop culture. For every hit television show or movie, dozens of...
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Death Match
The first thing worth mentioning about The Hunger Games is the silence. Few characters say much, and those that do don't repeat themselves. Their thoughts,...
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Film: Spring Arts 2012
In order of scheduled release date. Dates subject to change at the whim of a studio executive. MARCH THE HUNGER GAMES – Set in a...
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The Vanishing
There are three things you should know about Theater Alliance's How to Disappear Completely And Never Be Found: It's too long, too manic and, ultimately,...
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Mars Barred
Based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs story that debuted in a pulp magazine 100 years ago, John Carter is a very expensive movie. If there's...
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Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Film doesn't get much grimmer than We Need To Talk About Kevin. It's an utterly bleak, astonishing piece of work that demands your attention just...
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Oscar Fix
Well, it's Oscar time again! Somewhere out West, at this very moment, starlets are shrieking at their personal assistants about ill-fitting Dior, Billy Crystal is...
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Vanity Affair
One thing is clear in W.E., Madonna's mess of an attempt to pin ''auteur'' onto one of the few unoccupied spaces of her many-sided identity....
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Review: The Innkeepers
The Innkeepers, like all of Ti West's horror, is an exercise in slow-burning scares. He short-circuits nerves with anxiety, using sober creeps to ratchet...
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Fly Guys
There's not much depth to Chronicle. In spite of a unique take on the traditional superhero origin story, rookie director Josh Trank and screenwriter Max...
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Man Power
Albert Nobbs should work. Hell, it already did work on stage thirty years ago when Glenn Close raked in off-Broadway acclaim and first aspired...
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Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
I can't give Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close a chance. It's bullheaded and downright selfish of me, but I just can't do it. Seconds into...
