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A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES New Movie Review
The opening moments of A Walk Among the Tombstones are, like much of the movie, quiet and contemplative. Liam Neeson, playing police officer Matt Scudder under layers of hair, walks into a bar (no,...
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MauiTime’s Movies & Showtimes | Sep. 25th-Oct. 1, 2014
NEW THIS WEEK THE BOXTROLLS – PG – Animation/Adventure – A boy raised by trash collecting trolls fights an evil exterminator 97 min. THE EQUALIZER – R – Action/Thriller – Denzel Washington stars in...
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THE EQUALIZER New Movie Review
It was hard to miss The Equalizer when it first began airing on TV in the 1980s. The opening, set to a propulsive theme by Stewart Copeland, presented a montage of dread-inducing scenarios, mostly...
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GONE GIRL New Movie Review
In the early scenes of Gone Girl, we’re not sure if we like Nick Dunne, the “hero” of the piece, played by Ben Affleck. He’s handsome, has a salt of the earth quality and a younger sister who adores...
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ANNABELLE Special Bonus Movie Review
I don’t like scary movies. Do you have to see a lot of them? I never watch them. People tell me this often, typically right after my wife introduces me as a movie critic. I hear it so often that it...
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THE JUDGE New Movie Review
Here’s a high-profile movie that has, like Frankenstein’s monster, been stitched together from other movies. How appropriate, that we get a Franken-movie a few weeks shy of Halloween. Robert Downey...
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ADDICTED New Movie Review
The subject matter may be sexual addiction but the movie’s only interested in desire, lust and the joys of inhibition-free sex. Addicted, based on the book by Zane (the erotic novelist, not Billy), is...
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OUIJA New Movie Review
I’m not sure what Hasbro had in mind with this one. When the toy company branched off into filmmaking and adapted their “Transformers” and “G.I. Joe” lines into a series of popular (and moronic)...
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Happy Halloween! Here are a couple lists of the scariest movies we’ve ever seen
The month of October annually creates a need for Best Of lists from film enthusiasts who love all things Scary. I found myself at A Saigon Cafe in Wailuku with Ben Lowenthal, my longtime friend who...
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NIGHTCRAWLER New Movie Review
The title is exactly right. Louis Bloom, the character Jake Gyllenhaal plays in Nightcrawler, is a real creep. The kind you imagine oozing out of sidewalk cracks or slithering down a grimy, forgotten...
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