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Review of Avengers I: The Simple Summer Joys of ‘Hulk, Smash’
Summary: Today Locke Peterseim reviews the first Avengers film, a timely flash-back that helps us put A2-Ultron in context. Unsurprisingly, much of this review applies just as well to Avengers-Ultron....
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Our Burning Skull: The Dark, Brutal Ritual of Mad Max: Fury Road
Summary: Today Locke Peterseim pens the review you’ve been waiting for — Mad Max: Fury Road. It’s America as seen in the funhouse mirror. {2nd of 2 posts today.} “Our Burning Skull: The Dark, Brutal...
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Tomorrowland: If You Don’t Like This Movie, You’ll Kill Our Future
Summary: Today Locke Peterseim reviews Tomorrowland, Disney’s “ode to a pre-Vietnam, pre-Watergate, pre-counterculture past when the early ‘60s, Space Race, Camelot-fueled notion of tomorrow was still...
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Review of “Inside Out”: fun for kids & disturbing fun for adults
Summary: Today Locke Peterseim reviews Inside Out. Kids love its great story and fine graphics. Adults love it for more interesting and perhaps disturbing reasons. Read on to learn more. {2nd of 2...
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The one review for all this summer’s hottest blockbusters!
Summary: Today Locke Peterseim gives us something different than his usually insightful review of a summer blockbuster; he gives a macro-review of summer blockbusters as an art form. What does their...
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Black Mass: a light film about an important story of US corruption
Summary: Here Locke Peterseim gives one of his typically excellent reviews. He looks at Black Mass, explaining not just the film but also how and why it gets brought to the screen. The film tells one...
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The Great Lie at the Peak of “Everest”
Summary: Here Locke Peterseim reviews the new film “Everest”. As he does so well, he provides insights not just about the film, but also about the story it tells of business and personal adventurism in...
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Oz the Great and Powerful: a reminder that Mickey Mouse Owns Your Childhood
Tweet Summary: Today Locke Peterseim reviews the latest revisit to Oz, as Hollywood continues not so much reinvent stories for each generation as strip-mine our cultural reserves. Modern marketing...
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Review of Skyfall: an old Bond for a tired franchise
Tweet Summary: Today Locke Peterseim reviews Skyfall. It’s one of his best reviews. “There’s no energy to the entire endeavor that doesn’t feel borrowed, and while the movie keeps moving, it doesn’t...
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“Skywalker” is the “Transformers” for our time
Tweet To better understand the latest Star Wars trilogy, let’s turn to one of our top film critics. His review of Transformers 4 describes the transformation of American cinema from an art into a...
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