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Gross On The Dark Knight... 48 Hrs by The Hot Blog

The Dark Knight is both ambitious in conception, superior intermittently in execution, and flawed in serious ways. It deserves a score of B+ or 80 out of a hundred, qualified with the understanding that in the current environment people will excessively...
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No Dark Knight Spoiler Review by The Hot Blog

So…. I returned to The Dark Knight , expecting that once I knew what was coming and had some sense of the themes of the film, I could pick a lot more up. And that simply wasn’t the case. Unfortunately, the second viewing exposed many of the small holes...
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Hot Button Review - The Long, Dark, Good Knight by The Hot Blog

This is not a Batman movie… this is a 2008 version of The Untouchables with The Batman as Elliot Ness, The Joker as Al Capone, much better toys, and, it seems, a topper. Great. But the topper is a bit unwieldy, in that it makes the film too long to sustain...
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Hot Button Review - Greece Is The Word by The Hot Blog

I had a hard time getting a handle on what exactly they were going for with this mélange of beautiful settings, terrible green screen (or whatever technique they used to leave massive lines around the actors’ heads when they were looking out onto the...
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Hot Button Review - Hell To The Boy, Dos a la Oro by The Hot Blog

Guillermo del Toro is truly a bright, beautiful light in the industry. For all of his genius in the imagination of characters and creatures, his real power is in the drama of the misunderstood or broken coming to a place of love and peace, often through...
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Hancock - Spoiler Review by The Hot Blog

For those who are quick to call Hancock “a mess” or the third act “a huge left turn” or Variety's hypetastic "Last Action Hero-like" or whatever euphemism they are using this time, I offer this very serious suggestion… see the movie again...
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Is 'Hancock' Half-Cocked? [Dethroning The King] by Defamer

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Hancock - Non-Spoiler Review by The Hot Blog

Hancock is very much in the spirit of Iron Man , from earlier this summer. Our hero is an anti-hero… drunk, smug, angry, selfish, and powerful. But unlike Tony Stark, his story starts to turn not when he is beaten into a change of perspective but because...
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Wanted: Fight Club Without A Brain by The Hot Blog

I've dreading digging into Wanted , the over-the-top, uninterested-in-reality or narrative mediocrity on its way from Universal. Don't even get me started on this film getting a pass, as it surely will, while the same supporters bitched about...
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Night Falls In Manhattan (and phily and rural pa, etc.) by The Hot Blog

There is really no way of understating how much of a failure M Night Shyamalan’s The Happening is. It is the first film of his real career that feels incompetent and utterly gratuitous at times. It is the first time he has used his good taste in actors...
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Ouchie!!! by The Hot Blog

Ella Taylor is taking heat for shredding , accurately, Sex & The City - Episodes 127-133: The Cash Grab. Less a movie than a very long goodbye (again), at 142 minutes, Sex and the City is basically a whole season’s worth of episodes — or outtakes...
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The Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Review (ALL Spoilers) by The Hot Blog

SPOLIERS... SPOILERS... SPOILERS!!! Are we clear? Spoliers via this link ! If you don't want to be spoiled, don't click on the link... ok? Here is a spoiler-free sample of the spoiler section... I kinda love Spielberg doing XXX XXX XXX for, probably...
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The Indy Review... Is Coming... by The Hot Blog

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Variety "Review" And The Pathetic Fear Of Irrelevance by The Hot Blog

What's almost as sad as live-blogging during the first screening of a movie is disrespectful? Variety being so insecure about being relevant that it has to run the following before actually reviewing the film... Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the...
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the assassination of speed racer by The Hot Blog

I wouldn't normally link to something so in agreement with me, especially when the issue has died down in here. But I found the image amusing enough to link it. LINK (Now THAt would be a conversion... Lancelot Link! Or is it Space Monkeys ?)
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