Movie Reviews

Life is Beautiful (Blu-ray)

October 19, 2011
Nathan Swank

 “This is a simple story but not an easy one to tell.  Like a fable there is sorrow, and, like a fable, it is full of wonder and happiness.” The opening lines of LI...

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Life Of Pi Movie Review

November 22, 2012
Nathan Swank

Rarely do I read books before seeing the film as inevitably the book will ruin the movie experience because of the unfair expectations.  However, about five years ago a ...

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Lilo & Stitch / Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch Blu-ray Review

June 25, 2013
Nathan Swank

Right before LILO & STITCH was released in 2002, Disney presented one of its most memorable and humorous advertising campaigns containing a ferocious but adorable lit...

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Limitless (Blu-ray)

July 27, 2011
Nathan Swank

Lacking focus or motivation to put any effort into his unfulfilled book contract, slovenly and disheveled writer, Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper), plummets to a new low when...

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Little Ashes (with Robert Pattinson)

April 14, 2010
Rebeca Surber Swank

I was raised in a home where if you didn’t have something nice to say about someone/thing then don’t say anything at all.  If I were to heed to my upbringing you wou...

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Lockout Movie Review

April 16, 2012
Nathan Swank

POW! A rugged man tied to a chair is punched in the face.  When questioned again, he calmly gives a cocky smart-aleck remark about sleeping with his assailant’s wife. ...

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Lola Versus Blu-ray Review

October 9, 2012
Nathan Swank

An independent film about the life of a single woman, LOLA VERSUS attempts to modernize the finding one’s self genre.  Unfortunately, while the attempt garners a f...

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Lone Survivor Movie Review

January 10, 2014
Nathan Swank

Based on the true story of the failed 2005 mission “Operation Red Wings”, LONE SURVIVOR follows the four SEAL members who were ambushed by Taliban soldiers in...

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Looper Movie Review

October 1, 2012
Nathan Swank

Time travel is always a tricky topic that almost always falls victim to plot holes and added questions, usually relegating the sci-fi film to campy fun or irritating frus...

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Gabriel Byrne, Devin Druid in Louder Than Bombs

Louder Than Bombs Movie Review

April 29, 2016
Nathan Swank

AMERICAN BEAUTY, ORDINARY PEOPLE, SQUID AND THE WHALE, and THE ICE STORM are all great films involving family drama.  Admittedly, this is a genre that I tend to skew tow...

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