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LaRae's Published Articles
Movie Review: High School Musical 3: Senior Year
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Posted by LaRae | October 26th, 2008 at 1:03 pm |
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (HSM3-SR) can best be described as an excuse for dancing, singing campiness.
High school basketball superstar Try Bolton (Zac Efron) has to decide what he wants to do with his life when he graduates. His father wants him to follow his basketball talent, but Julliard comes to scout his drama talents. His girlfriend, Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) has been accepted to Stanford University in California. His girlfriend encourages him to join the school play. Also in the play is diva Sharpay Evans (Ashley Tisdale), her choreographer brother Ryan Evans (Lucas Grabeel), basketball buddy Chad Daforth (Corbin Bleu), and talented composer Kelsi Nielsen (Oleysa Rulin). The quirky drama teacher Ms. Darbus (Alyson Reed) leads the group through their most important play.
The dancing in High School Musical 3: Senior Year is appropriate for the age of its target audience. With the exception of a couple of scenes there are no raunchy moves. More important than the age appropriate dancing is the accessibility offered by HSM3-SR [...]
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Movie Review: Body of Lies
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Posted by LaRae | October 10th, 2008 at 12:59 am |
CIA spy Roger Ferris is sent to Jordan to find a Middle Eastern terrorist in Body of Lies. Smart but spent, Body of Lies is an American stereotype done up nice.
Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio), a CIA agent in Iraq, is reassigned to Jordan to find Al-Saleem (Alon Abutbul), a terrorist threatening to commit attacks all over Europe. Contrary to and against the warning of his successors, Ferris decides to include the Head of Jordanian General Intelligence Department, the well dressed and brilliant Hani Salaam (Mark Strong) in the planning to catch this terrorist. Overweight and callous CIA boss Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe), lives in Washington DC and manages Ferris. It is obvious that Hoffman has left a trail of burned relationships in his wake.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe give equally convincing performances. DiCaprio puts his angry face on as he runs around, refreshingly innocent and naive for a spy. Crowe taps into a smarmy quality in a deep, cold sense. Even though both Crowe and DiCaprio are fun to watch, Body of Lies belongs to Mark Strong [...]
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Movie Review: Eagle Eye
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Posted by LaRae | September 26th, 2008 at 10:34 am |
Boom, Bang, Vroom, Huh?, Crash, Kablam = Eagle Eye. A true escapist movie, Eagle Eye is explosive fun, as long as you don’t think too much and you don’t mind commercials.
Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf), an underachieving slacker, is blackmailed into a criminal situation, directed only by a woman over the phone that seems able to access all the electronics connected by some kind of network. Rachel Hollowman (Michelle Monaghan) is driven into the same situation with Jerry when her son is threatened. FBI Agent Thomas Morgan (Billy Bob Thorton) and Air Force Investigator Zoe Perez (Rosario Dawson) are assigned to investigate Shaw, and, as a consequence, Rachael. They all are led by the seat of their pants on the path the woman on the phone decides [...]
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Movie Review: Sex and the City: The Movie
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Posted by LaRae | May 30th, 2008 at 10:17 pm |
Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall, and Kristin Davis all return for this big-screen adaptation of the HBO television series.
Posted in Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews | 3 Comments »
The 3D Technology of ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’
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Posted by LaRae | February 28th, 2008 at 6:40 am |
Star Brendan Fraser was on hand for the viewing of five clips from the upcoming adventure, which uses a new 3D technology.
Posted in Movies, News, Technology | 3 Comments »
Movie Review: Be Kind Rewind
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Posted by LaRae | February 22nd, 2008 at 8:18 am |
Jack Black, Mos Def, and Danny Glover star in this comedy written and directed by Michel Gondry.
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Movie Review: Nanking
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Posted by LaRae | January 13th, 2008 at 11:23 am |
Mariel Hemingway, Rosalind Chao, and other actors narrative and read from letters written during the WWII atrocities occurring when the Japanese invaded the Chinese city of Nanking.
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Movie Review: Rendition
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Posted by LaRae | November 2nd, 2007 at 4:19 pm |
The film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon is about the post-9/11 American torture practices and shocks the audience into facing the truth of what their fear created, both home and abroad.
Posted in Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Movie Review: Things We Lost In the Fire
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Posted by LaRae | October 31st, 2007 at 8:30 pm |
The film, starring Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro, shows how life is not fair, bad things happen to good people, good people aren’t always good, and bad people aren’t always as bad as they seem.
Posted in Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Movie Review: In the Valley of Elah
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Posted by LaRae | September 22nd, 2007 at 1:35 am |
Tommy Lee Jones, Susan Sarandon, and Charlize Theron star in this military drama.
Posted in Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews | 3 Comments »
Movie Review: Eastern Promises
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Posted by LaRae | September 13th, 2007 at 11:26 pm |
David Cronenberg’s film, starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts, is to the eyes what crème brule is to the tongue: smooth, sophisticated, and delicious.
Posted in Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews | 4 Comments »
Interview: Seth Gordon
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Posted by LaRae | September 3rd, 2007 at 5:01 am |
The director of The King of Kong: A Fist Full of Quarters, a documentary about two men competing for the Donkey Kong title, opened up about his new film, its process, and his future.
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DVD Review: House M.D. Season 3
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Posted by LaRae | August 20th, 2007 at 6:18 pm |
There’s only one reason to buy House M.D. Season Three on DVD — it’s one of the finest shows on television right now.
Posted in DVD Reviews, DVDs, Reviews, Television | 1 Comment »
Movie Review: The Invasion
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Posted by LaRae | August 20th, 2007 at 12:07 pm |
While there are times that The Invasion is fun, with action that can captivate for a couple minutes at a time, that’s pretty much all it has to offer.
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Interview: Noah Bean of ‘Damages’
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Posted by LaRae | August 16th, 2007 at 9:33 am |
Damages star Noah Bean tells us about working with Glenn Close and gives his thoughts on his character’s untimely demise, as well as drops a few hints as to what we can expect for his character in upcoming episodes.
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Interview: ‘Rush Hour 3′ Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner
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Posted by LaRae | August 10th, 2007 at 9:19 pm |
LaRae sits down with Rush Hour 3 star Chris Tucker and director Brett Ratner to talk about the film, which opened today.
Posted in Interviews, Movies | 1 Comment »
Movie Review: The Bourne Ultimatum
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Posted by LaRae | August 3rd, 2007 at 10:32 am |
The Bourne Ultimatum, the third installment in the Bourne series based on Robert Ludlum’s novel, is an eye peeling, edge of your seat action romp that leaves the audience feeling like they ran around chasing Jason Bourne through the streets.
A mysterious man meets with reporter Simon Ross to bring to light top secret government [...]
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Movie Review: No Reservations
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Posted by LaRae | July 27th, 2007 at 7:00 am |
No Reservations can be summed up with one word: charming.
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TV Review: ‘Damages’ (Pilot)
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Posted by LaRae | July 23rd, 2007 at 12:20 am |
Damages, a new murder mystery/legal thriller, starring Glenn Close, Ted Danson, and Tate Donovan, premieres this Tuesday, July 25 on the FX Network.
Posted in Reviews, TV Reviews, Television | 1 Comment »
Movie Review: Hairspray
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Posted by LaRae | July 20th, 2007 at 11:27 pm |
A sweet musical twist on a tart subject makes a cinematic tongue tingler. If you don’t laugh during Hairspray, your skin is on too tight!
Posted in Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews | 4 Comments »
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