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Star Trek boldly goes where many men have gone before

For the last decade or two, the Star Trek franchise has been in a pretty steady decline, combining ever-lessening creative quality with serious overexposure (three series and four movies in just the l

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Wolverine fails to put the human in superhuman

By Carey Norris

Origin stories in superhero movies are tricky things. Usually, they are just things that need to be gotten out of the way before the real action begins. So devoting an entire film to the backstory of

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Crank 2: Electric Boogaloo

By Carey Norris

The original Crank was an unexpected joy for action-movie fans. It starred Jason Statham in a DOA-style plot about hitman Chev Chelios, who was dosed with a Chinese poison and had to find the people w

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Adventureland: Summer Lovin'

Superbad director Greg Mottola’s charming new film Adventureland finds new depths in an old genre.

By Carey Norris

At first, the bare bones of the movie seem familiar to anyone who has ever seen a coming-of-age movie, in which a callow young man has a Summer That Changes Everything, but Superbad director Greg Mott

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Duplicity tests the twisty limits of genre

Combing a romantic comedy and an ultra-convoluted thriller may seem like an uneasy marriage, but the new film Duplicity certainly lives up to its name, ably joining the two genres and testing the twisty limits of the caper movie while ultimately laying th

By Kyle Whitmire

Combing a romantic comedy and an ultra-convoluted thriller may seem like an uneasy marriage, but the new film Duplicity certainly lives up to its name, ably joining the two genres and testing the twis