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Review of World War Z (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 21 Jun 2013

If this is the kind of movie you're inclined to check out, feel free to do so. Otherwise, go rewatch the last season of The Walking Dead…

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Review of Monsters University (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 21 Jun 2013

If it wasn't for Mike's romantic subplot with Celia in the first movie, I'd make the argument he and Sulley are animation's most enduring gay couple…

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Review of Man of Steel (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 14 Jun 2013

Henry Cavill gives us something we haven't gotten on film in a while: a SUPERman, with all the awesome power the name implies…

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Review of The Internship (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 07 Jun 2013

Google made over $3 billion in profit in just the first quarter of this year, and yet they not only expect you to sit through a two-hour commercial,…

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Review of Epic (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 31 May 2013

I will now review this movie using the lyrics to the song Epic by Faith No More, which I think you'll find are eerily fitting…

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Review of After Earth (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 31 May 2013

How could species evolve over the course of a mere thousand years to get a serious hate on for human beings, when *no humans have been on the…

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Review of Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 18 May 2013

I was comforted to see a warp drive spacecraft could be kickstarted like a 1912 Buick, and we were treated to not one but two desperate uses…

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Review of The Great Gatsby (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 18 May 2013

If I hear someone say Old sport one more time I will run them over with my giant yellow convertible…

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Review of Pain & Gain (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 27 Apr 2013

Bay could've paid for Pain & Gain with the spare hundreds he keeps around for cocaine straws…

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Review of Trance (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 13 Apr 2013

Trance isn't the director's best by a long shot, but it's a perfectly serviceable thriller with all Boyle's trademark flourishes…

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Review of G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 30 Mar 2013

If you went back to 1984 and told me there would be a serious production about toys called Destro and Ripcord, I'd have asked you when lobotomies…

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Review of Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 23 Mar 2013

Olympus Has Fallen wants to be Die Hard in the White House so much I half-expected Alexander Godunov to pop up at the end…

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Review of The Call (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 23 Mar 2013

Shocking, I know, to think the writer of Thir13en Ghosts and Exit Wounds may not have been up to the task of crafting a fully realized narrative…

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Review of Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 09 Mar 2013

Oz the Great and Powerful is perfectly adequate for kids and people who don't believe every trip down cinema's memory lane amounts to sodomy…

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Review of Snitch (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 02 Mar 2013

The scene where Matthews searches for cartels on Wikipedia is as (unintentionally) hilarious as Michael Bolton looking up money laundering…

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Review of Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 02 Mar 2013

Tomlinson wears a suit of armor well, but as long as we're reimagining the classics, why not give the Princess more to do that run away from…

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Review of Beautiful Creatures (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 16 Feb 2013

I'd enjoy listening to Emma Thompson even if she was reading me my list of offenses against the Crown while the Royal Buggerer oiled up his…

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Review of A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 16 Feb 2013

Over the course of 25 years and four ensuing movies, we've gone from mild eye-rolling to goggling incredulity…

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Review of Warm Bodies (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 03 Feb 2013

It kind of reminded me of Twilight, if that movie had an engaging cast, intelligent script, coherent story, and didn't make me want to eat a bullet…

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Review of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 27 Jan 2013

I counted at least six occasions when Renner could've led with, This ... is my BOOM STICK…

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