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Pirate Radio: Sly and Exuberant Fun - Movie Review

D. Benjamin Wickowitz
Movie review - Pirate Radio.  Overall Great - 4 out of 5 beams.  Kicks ass: 70% LOL, a sly script and exuberant sex & drugs & rock & roll make this a really fun movie. (To be fair, sex & drugs aren’t shown...

Coco Before Chanel - "Biopic Suits Its Extraordinary Subject"

D. Benjamin Wickowitz
Movie Review; Coco Before Chanel, Overall Good - 3.5 out of 5 beams.  A well mounted biography of iconic fashion queen Coco Chanel, this handsome movie reveals in simple fashion her humble origins...

Movie Review: "This Is It" Entertains and Illuminates in Equal Measure

D. Benjamin Wickowitz
"This Is It" - Overall Great - 4 out of 5 beams.  Michael Jackson – like Elvis – left the building at a shockingly young age, inadvertently bestowing this semi-polished documentary to posterity.  It's quite...

Zombieland Review - Clever Film with Comedy Edge

D. Benjamin Wickowitz
Movie Review: "Zombieland", Overall Good - 3.5 out of 5 beams.  Zombie movies aren't my thing – but comedies are – and this zombie comedy rocks. Amply LOL and with fewer clunkers than most comedies...

Movie Review: Carey Mulligan Shines in "An Education"

D. Benjamin Wickowitz
"An Education", Overall Great - 4 out of 5 beams.  Not your normal coming-of-age movie, this charming and engaging early-60s period piece seems likely to be remembered as Carey Mulligan’s coming...

Movie Review: "A Serious Man"

D. Benjamin Wickowitz
Dyspeptic and deeply sacrilegious, the Coen Brothers' latest is also reliably funny and brilliantly surreal. A ludicrous fable of Biblical proportions, the movie nonetheless oozes verisimilitude, a credit to the manifold...

"More Than a Game" Review - Lebron James Hoops Film Brilliant

D. Benjamin Wickowitz
Overall Great - 4.5 out of 5 beams. - Ain't no better basketball movie than this boys-to-men documentary about LeBron James and his brothers-in-hoops. Also a brilliant and touching portrait of half a dozen...

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