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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Let me say right up front that I quite enjoyed “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” but I don’t expect most other people will. At unless they’re hardcore Tolkienites like myself. Director Peter...
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Too much or too little? When it comes to Tolkien screen adaptations, there seems to be little agreement in how much material to stuff into these movies. The choice by director Peter Jackson and his...
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Cloud Atlas
A grand, brave, often mesmerizing but just as often puzzling cinematic experience, “Cloud Atlas” takes a book generally thought to be unfilmable and delivers something rather astonishing. The...
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The Matrix (1999)
“Science-fiction not only shows us the future, it shows us ourselves.” — James Pinkerton With its tale of a world in which people are at the mercy of machines, 1999’s “The Matrix” pulsates with Y2K...
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Unlike the triumphant finale of the three “The Lord of the Rings” films, the last movie in “The Hobbit” trilogy feels more like the grateful collapse at the end of an overlong marathon. With regard to...
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
With the final film in the “Hobbit” trilogy, the Tolkien train has finally rumbled to its last cinematic stop — assuming, that is, that director Peter Jackson & Co. aren’t intending to turn the...
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Hacksaw Ridge
Though it’s a little too self-serious, and emphasizes the devastation of war to the extent it overshadows the grace of its pacifist subject, “Hacksaw Ridge” has immense and undeniable power. It’s a...
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Heartland: Jasper Jones
For tickets and show times, please click here. There seem to be two things that I’m a sucker for: coming-of-age stories and murder mysteries. Whether they’re combined or separated, I’m usually open...
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MCU Retrospective, Part 5 — “Captain America: The First Avenger”
In this weekly series, Film Yap writer Andrew Carr revisits each installment of the decade-long Marvel Cinematic Universe. Once a week, Andrew will review one film in the series, in the order in which...
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Mortal Engines
What would it be like if Peter Jackson, the man who brought to life The Lord of the Rings trilogy over ten years ago, decided to partake in directing a post-apocalyptic, Mad Max-style adventure filled...
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