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Film Review: "This is the End"

Film Review: "This is the End"
"This is the End"
Directed by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen

Starring Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, James Franco, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Emma Watson, Michael Cera
Comedy, Action
107 Mins
R

Funnymen Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen - the writing team behind Superbad - have teamed up again to make their directorial debut and the funniest movie in the last ten years. With the who's-who of comedic actors playing amped up versions of "themselves," this ensemble bounce off each other with the snappy veracity of high speed bumper cars and manage to bottle lightning. Like sitting in on a smoke session with this pack of real-life buddies, the experience will either make you euphoric, inducing helpless giggles and maybe even tears of joy, or make you uncomfortable, leave you with dry mouth and make you want to go home. Thankfully, if your funny bone still works, you'll probably be in the former camp.

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Film Review: "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane"

All The Boys Love Mandy Lane

How do you discuss a movie that seems to actively uphold genre trappings and makes absolutely no contribution to the film world at large or the horror subculture? You point out everything wrong with it and hope that no one makes these mistakes again. Well at least that's what I'm gonna do. That and make fun of it.

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June '13 Digital Week I

Blu-rays of the Week

Cleopatra

(Fox)

Despite its reputation as one of the biggest bombs in movie history—tens of millions spent with very little bang for those bucks—Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s four-plus hour ancient Egyptian epic (with Liz Taylor and Richard Burton sleepwalking through their roles as the beautiful queen and her lover Marc Antony) at least shows all of its money onscreen.

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Film Review: "Hannah Arendt" at Film Forum

Sukowa in Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta; written by von Trotta & Pamela Katz
Zeitgeist Films
Opens May 29, 2013
Margarethe von Trotta and Barbara Sukowa make a formidable team dramatizing formidable women’s lives. The German director and actress have made biopics about Communist agitator Rosa Luxemburg (Rosa Luxemburg, 1986), 11th century abbess and polymath Hildegard of Bingen (Vision, 2009) and now, Hannah Arendt, about the Jewish-German theorist-philosopher whose description of Nazi Adolf Eichmann as a mere bureaucratic functionary epitomizing the “banality of evil” at his 1961 trial—which she wrote about for The New Yorker—outraged many (incorrectly) as defending the indefensible.

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