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Blu-ray Review: The Circle

August 1, 2017

[amazon_link asins=’B072MPK8K6′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’d9298960-76dc-11e7-85f6-2787d53fbef7′]Based on Dave Eggers’ novel of the same name, The Circle raises some interesting questions about the expanding role technology plays in our everyday lives, but lacks the necessary depth to explore the them. Eggers co-wrote the screenplay with the film’s director James Ponsoldt whose previous films include the teen romance The Spectacular Now and the highly recommended David Foster

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Pixar Shorts 2

Blu-ray Review: Pixar Short Films Collection – Volume 2

November 18, 2012

Released in 2007, Pixar’s first collection of short films offered a glimpse of the company’s evolution from 1984 through 2006. Watching that first collection, it’s fascinating to witness the tremendous leaps in CGI that were occurring during Pixar’s earliest efforts. Watching this recently released second collection—which covers 2007 through 2012—it’s impossible not to admire Pixar’s abilities with CGI. They are simply head and shoulders above

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Patton Oswalt

DVD Review: Patton Oswalt – Finest Hour

April 16, 2012

Rewind. Play. Rewind. Play. Rewind. Play. I’ve done that with Ratatouille on DVD. My sister has done that with Ratatouille on DVD. In this household, that’s all I know of Patton Oswalt, that he was the voice of Remy in Ratatouille. I knew that there must have been something that led to him getting that voice role, but I didn’t know what it was. Now

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Young Adult

Blu-ray Review: Young Adult

March 12, 2012

While it has comedic moments, when Charlize Theron stumbles through Jason Reitman’s Young Adult, she’s not playing it for laughs. Diablo Cody’s screenplay about Mavis Gary (Theron) a 37-year-old woman who hasn’t really moved beyond the social clicks and immaturity of high school has several funny lines, mostly at Mavis’ expense. The deadened glare she delivers while engaging in several bad behaviors makes it clear

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DVD Review: Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil

October 16, 2008

Lewis Black has a rather frenetic style when delivering comedy. Much like the late George Carlin, he always seems on the verge of a nervous breakdown. While in a full on rant, Black ridicules history, politics, religion, trends and cultural phenomena. He uses sarcasm and hyperbole laced with profanity to emphasis his disgust disdain or disbelief for a specific topic. Black once described his humor

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