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Thanks for checking out our Pathology review. For anyone who has been reading The Movie Blog for the last year or so, you know one film that I’ve gotten myself quite invested in is “Pathology”. I visited the set last year and was completely blown away by what I saw there. I’ve [...]

Thanks for checking out our Smart People review. If you’d like there is a video version of the Smart People review at the bottom of this post.
First time director Noam Murro delivers this new comedy (Smart People) that has had my attention ever since I first saw the trailer for it. It has [...]

Thanks for checking out our Street Kings Review. If you’d like, you can also watch this review in a video version at the bottom of this post.
Unless the film has the word “Matrix” in it someplace, long gone are the days when putting the name “Keanu Reeves” on the poster gets even the slightest [...]

Thanks for checking out our Prom Night review!
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Plot outline from IMDB: Donnas senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, one of magic, beauty, and love. Surrounded by her best friends, she should be safe from the horrors of her past. But when the night turns from magic [...]

Hey there. Thanks for checking out our “The Ruins” review.
I’ve got to admit right up front that when I first saw the marketing for “The Ruins”, I shock my head and didn’t have much hope for it. You can’t blame me really. The last 2 years have been filled with utterly forgetable [...]

Hey there. Thanks for checking out our Leatherheads review.
It’s been said that George Clooney is the last true movie star. It’s hard to argue with that statement. Clooney embodies all the charisma, charm, swagger and glamour of the old time Hollywood movie stars. He is the face of what the industry [...]

Hello Friends, Thank you for checking out our Nim’s Island Review!
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Plot synopsis from IMDB: Anything can happen on Nim’s Island, a magical place ruled by a young girl’s imagination. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover - the world’s greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author [...]

Thanks for checkout out our Drillbit Taylor review. Let me say this right up front. Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow ought to be ASHAMED of themselves for this pathetic, boring, laughless and shameless Superbad carbon copy movie they’ve put out. Shame on them. My respect level for each of them has [...]

On the site, I have made it known on numerous occasions that home invasion thrillers scare the living hell out of me.  Every time I have commented on how films like Ils and A l’interieur and If I Die Before I Wake are by far the most disturbing films of its subgenre, I always had [...]

My friend Wintle bought me a 50 pack of Sword And Sandal films before I left for Hollywood. He then bought a pack for himself, and we began discussion about going through the series together. Soon after we decided to share our journey with all of you; and thus the Macho Movie Review [...]

Hey there guys.  Thanks for checking out our Mongol review from the SXSW film festival.  This is a film that Doug has been looking forward to seeing for a while now.  Did it measure up to his expectations?  Yeah… it sure did.
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Plot outline from IMDB: The story recounts the early life of [...]

Hey there! Thanks for checking out our “The Foot Fist Way” review. We’re hanging at the SXSW film festival in Austin TX right now so there isn’t a video version of the review, sorry about that.
Finding a great little movie that most people don’t know about is sort of like putting on [...]

Thanks for checking out our review of Battle in Seattle.
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Plot Outline from IMDB: Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings.
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People should always make the most out of their right to express [...]

Thanks for checking out our Forgetting Sarah Marshall Review.
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Plot Outline From IMDB: Devastated Peter (Segel) takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah (Bell). Little does he know Sarah’s traveling to the same resort as her ex … and she’s bringing along her [...]

Thanks for checking out our Run Fatboy Run review from the SXSW film festival here in Austin Texas.
I am but one of many people who instantly because a big and probably life long fan of Simon Pegg after watching Shaun of the Dead for the first time. That movie just had it all… terrific [...]

Thanks for checking out our Harold And Kumar 2 Review! We had a chance to see the film at the SXSW premier last night with members of the cast in attendance, including his eternal holiness Neil Patrick Harris
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Plot Synopsis from Imdb: Follows the cross-country adventures of the pot-smoking duo as they [...]

Thanks for checking out our Never Back Down Review!
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At his new high school, rebellious Jake Tyler (Sean Faris) is lured into an underground fight club. With the help of legendary Brazilian MMA trainer Jean Roqua (Djimon Hounsou) Jake learns to focus his natural fighting ability and in the process, masters his emotions. [...]

Thanks for checking out our Bank Job Review. Feel free to also view the video version of this review at the bottom of the post.
I became a big fan of Jason Statham after watching “Snatch” (still one of my favorite movies of all time). At the time though, I didn’t really think we’d [...]

Thank you for checking out our review of The Other Boleyn Girl.
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Plot synopsis from IMDB: A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family’s blind ambition, compete for the love [...]

Thanks for checking out our Semi Pro Review!
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Plot synopsis from IMDB: Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association’s Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true
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Tim Meadows isn’t in Semi Pro much, but the strongest scene in the film features him and this is [...]