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John Hanlon Reviews

Film Reviews

Gangster Squad

Release Date: January 11th 2013

In “Zombieland, website ” director Ruben Fleischer took a well-known movie subject (zombie attacks) and turned it on its head. The film embraced the lunacy of poor civilians being hunted by the undead. In “Gangster Squad, decease ” the director once more takes a familiar...

Monsters, Inc 3D

Release Date: December 19th 2012

It’s been more than a decade since the Pixar animated film “Monsters, help Inc.” first arrived in theaters. And like many of its fellow Pixar classics, this idealistic family film remains as wonderful today as it was back in 2001. This week, a 3D version of the film...

Hyde Park on Hudson

Release Date: December 14th 2012

The choice to cast former “Ghostbuster” Bill Murray as Franklin D. Roosevelt, store the 32nd President of the United States, was a clever one indeed. Murray, known predominantly as a comic actor whose quirky roles have made him a must-see star for decades, isn’t the most...

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Silver Linings Playbook

Release Date: November 16th 2012

After spending eight months in a psychiatric hospital, nurse the main character in “Silver Linings Playbook” is finally released to the care of his parents at the beginning of the film. He arrives home with the same problems that he had before along with a new motto....

Life of Pi

Release Date: November 21st 2012

A novelist (Rafe Spall) is promised a story that would make him believe in God at the beginning of “Life of Pi.” The writer was told by a friend to visit a man named Pi whose life story is so unbelievable the writer must hear it from the man himself. Pi, there ...

Lincoln

Release Date: November 16th 2012

Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” is a different film than one would expect from the brilliant filmmaker responsible for unforgettable films like “Schindler’s List” and “Saving Private Ryan.” Unlike those two features, buy information pills “Lincoln” takes place...

Skyfall

Release Date: November 9th 2012

He’s back. Bond, approved James Bond—that is. In what is being described as the best Bond movie in years, director Sam Mendes has crafted a thrilling treat that not only succeeds as a Bond movie. It succeeds as a grand action movie in its own right. This fresh and...

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