The Last Airbender Movie Review

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M. Night Shyamalan has been running against the wind since The Sixth Sense made a splash, and your career begins to really look bleak when the last thing critics were nice to came out a decade ago. After a string of films hoping to keep the "snappy, twist ending" effort alive, The Last Airbender may seem an odd, brilliant, and/or stupid choice, but whatever the expectations, the result may spin … [Read more...]

The Village – Movie Review – I See Boring People

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In Whit Stilman’s Barcelona (a movie I love, but can’t quite call ‘great’), Chris Eigeman’s character wonders about sub-text. To paraphrase - Everyone’s always talking about the sub-text, he says, but what’s the stuff that’s not the sub-text? The text, comes the quick reply.  I faced a similar sort of dilemma at the end of M. Night Shyamalan’s effort The Village. Where, I … [Read more...]