David Riedel

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Film review: Admission

At Admission’s center is Tina Fey, who stretches beyond playing the straight man and being the butt of every other...

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Magically funny: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone exceeds low expectations The advertisements for The Incredible Burt...

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Behind the curtain: Oz the Great and Powerful is a playful take on the wizard’s rise In this day and age, when...

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There’s a story about “Jack and the Beanstalk” in which Jack trades a cow for some magic beans. He gets the beans wet...

Film Review: Amour

A loving married couple, Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) and Georges, (Jean-Louis Trintignant), both retired music teachers in...

Worst. Oscars. Ever.

Each year we think the Oscars can’t possibly be worse than the year before. And then each year, it’s so much worse...

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When did the demon dogs of hell stop merely influencing movie stars and studios and begin pulling the strings? To...

Film review: Side Effects

The trailers for Side Effects, director Steven Soderbergh’s new thriller, make it look like an indictment of all...

Film Review: Warm Bodies

What Warm Bodies has that most other zombie flicks don’t is the zombie’s story. Our narrator, R (Nicholas Hoult), is...

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Non-sequitur alert: Now that the wretched Super Bowl is over, let’s discuss music documentaries. There are two...