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My Apology to a Civil War Veteran

Today marks a sad occasion. Exactly 136 years ago, a veteran who was injured serving his country during the Civil War was humiliated by a president... a man who had hired a substitute. The Civil War veteran was Alfred Denny. During his time of service, he was thrown...

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Review for “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”

As a film critic, I try to have an open mind about the movies that I watch and rewatch. In the case of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” — not the 1974 classic directed by Tobe Hooper, but the 2003 cult classic directed by Marcus Nispel — I return to the flick again and...

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Title: Review for “10,000 BC”:

"10,000 BC" does not deserve its bad rap. It is not the worse reviewed film in director Roland Emmerich's oeuvre (that distinction belongs to "Moon 44"), but it is perhaps his most infamous. "Boring" is a word that I often hear from casual moviegoers who have watched...

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Review for ‘Pulse 2: Afterlife’

The “Pulse” trilogy is to the Internet what certain episodes of “The Twilight Zone” are to space travel and computers. (I am going to focus on the second movie, “Pulse 2: Afterlife,” but also discuss the other two films.) That anachronistic take on tech is one of the...

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Review for ‘Uncle Simon’

I want an action figure of Robby the Robot... but with a metallic face under his translucent dome, as opposed to the tubes, wires, spheres and flashing lights seen in the 1956 sci-fi film "Forbidden Planet." The reason for this is simple: Without that cold, cruel...

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Review for ‘Paths of Glory’

The opening scene in "Paths of Glory" should appear in a dictionary next to the word "Machiavellian." It is World War I and a French military official, Major General Georges Broulard (Adolphe Menjou), has been given an impossible assignment. His superiors, who are...

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Review for ‘The Borderlands’

Call it "Final Prayer," as they do in the USA, or call it "The Borderlands," as they do everywhere else. Just don't forget to call it the best found footage horror ever! The concept of found footage horror has, alas, usually been better than the execution. In theory,...

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