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Wrath of the Titans

The irony, naturally, is that Wrath is the superior picture. Not only was it actually intended to be 3-D from the green light, but the script made more sense. With fewer titans clashing about, this follow-up is far easier to, well, follow. Perseus (Sam Worthington, Avatar, Texas Killing Fields) has chosen not to live as […]

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Unknown

Still, he has room to grow, and a need for a script that’s up to snuff. Yet another entry in the bad-ass column for Liam Neeson — not a complaint, mind you — “Unknown” explores what happens when his Dr. Harris lands in Berlin for a biotech conference with his wife (January Jones), gets in […]

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Excalibur

I recall finding it boring and tiresome, but I was 15 — what did I know? In the 20-plus years that have intervened, I’ve revisited it several times, each more pleasurably than the last. It’s a film that just gets better with age, and it looks fabulous in its Blu-ray debut. The iconic early scene […]

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