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Post Oscar Thought: Grown Up Films – An Endangered Species?

“When I was a child,” film reviewer Stephen Whitty wrote in “What Happened to Grown-Up Films?” for New Jersey’s state paper, The Star-Ledger, on the day of the Oscars, “most of the big hits in movie theaters were aimed at adults. Now that I’m an adult, most of the big hits in movie theaters are …

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‘Transformers 3 – Dark of the Moon’ – Gratuitously overlong, ridiculously stupid

Transformers 3 – Dark of the Moon Directed by Michael Bay Written by Ehren Kruger 2011, USA It’s the obnoxious pomposity of it all that really grates. Or rather the bewildering (off-)balance of tedious sincerity and bumbling idiocy. Almost three hours of bewilderingly awful nonsense, perforated with occasional flashes of overtly machoist invention and all …

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