All posts by Jim Batts
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R.I.P.D. – The Review
Time for yet another big budget action flick based on a comic book series. This is not from...
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CRYSTAL FAIRY – The Review
Well, there’s a bit more to the title than that. According to the opening animation sequence this is...
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GIRL MOST LIKELY – The Review
Here’s a new film that offers another take on the tension-filled grown daughter/mother dynamic that’s been explored in...
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BYZANTIUM – The Review
With vampires being such a part of pop culture (with the recently concluded movie series based on the...
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PACIFIC RIM – The Review
After the smash successes of the original KING KONG worldwide in 1933 and the classic THE BEAST FROM...
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GROWN UPS 2 – The Review
So we’re just about at the Summer midpoint and we’ve gotten three big studio comedies. First out was...
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THE LONE RANGER (2013) – The Review
The Summer is at the halfway mark so it’s time for another all-media icon to storm (or in...
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THE HEAT – The Review
This year moviegoers finally felt the full force of a star that went supernova two years ago…a major...
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WHITE HOUSE DOWN – The Review
After seeing the TV spots and trailers you may be asking yourself, “Hey didn’t I see this last...
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (2012) – The Review
So what do you after you direct the third biggest box-office grosser of all time? Well you make...
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PANDORA’S PROMISE – The Review
PANDORA’S PROMISE is the new documentary that asks viewers to take another look at nuclear power. The title refers...
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THE EAST – The Review
It almost seems as though the spy biz was created especially for the movies, going back to the...
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THE INTERNSHIP – The Review
Can it really be eight years since Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson teamed up for the comedy smash...
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THE PURGE (2013) – The Review
Well, we’ve already had two looks at the far-distance future at the multiplex so far this year. Both...
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WHAT MAISIE KNEW (2013) – The Review
Arriving in theatres this weekend is a heart-wrenching drama that explores the very modern struggle between two adults...
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Joe Besser, the cartoon bio
On Sunday June 9 at 1PM the AMC Esquire Theatre at 6706 Clayton Road will be ground zero...
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FRANCES HA – The Review
Here’s a film that takes a look at modern twenty-somethings in a fresh way. While in earlier generations,...
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THE HANGOVER PART III – The Review
May’s not yet over and we’ve already got another flick in the theatres with the number three in...
