All posts by Jim Batts
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IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD Gets the Deluxe Criterion Treatment!
Hollywood’s most spectacular comedy is getting the treatment it so richly deserves! On his superb website (add it...
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Woody Woodpecker Returns to the Big Screen!
“Guess who?! Ha ha ha hah hah! Ha ha ha hah hah! Hahahahah!” Looks like another iconic cartoon...
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CAPTAIN PHILLIPS – The Review
Last year saw a major motion picture that exemplified the best of a sub-genre of the “based on...
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BAGGAGE CLAIM – The Review
COME FLY WITH ME, the late, late movie staple, like the old Sinatra standard, put forth the idea...
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ENOUGH SAID – The Review
All right you kids, get out of the pool! Time to give the adults a chance to have...
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DRINKING BUDDIES – The Review
“It’s still the same old story…” states a classic tune that became the theme of a classic Hollywood...
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RUSH (2013) – The Review
Vroom! Vroom! Time to strap ourselves in and wait for the green light. The multiplex becomes the big...
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THANKS FOR SHARING – The Review
As we ease into the winter months (and the year-end awards season), the studios are delving into more serious...
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THE 3D IMAX WIZARD OF OZ is here!
So it’s a bit early, but if any motion picture deserves a year-long celebration it’s this one. This weekend,...
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INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 2 – The Review
Oh, oh. It’s Friday the thirteenth once again. So, of course there’s going to be a brand spankin’...
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SHORT TERM 12 – The Review
The theatres get a little quieter after the big Labor Day holiday. The Summer superheroes have rolled up...
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THE GRANDMASTER – The Review
Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the US release of FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH, the movie that...
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THE SPECTACULAR NOW – The Review
Well Summer’s almost over and the more serious film fare is starting to arrive at the cinemas. But...
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THE WORLD’S END – The Review
What do many folks rapidly approaching middle age yearn for? Why it’s the title of a Springsteen anthem, “Glory Days”,...
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KICK-ASS 2 – The Review
So if Percy Jackson and the retired spies of RED can get follow-ups, why not that geeky non...
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LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER – The Review
Usually once or twice during the big Summer movie season, the Hollywood studios release a film that’s a...
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PLANES (2013) – The Review
For the last few Summers we’ve come to expect a brand new animated feature from the fine folks...
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ELYSIUM (2013) – The Review
Mulling over this new film opening up today, I thought of an inversion of the ole’ “Lone Ranger” TV/...
