Sue's Reviews: Across the Universe

Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:04 PM EDT

It was about a year ago that I saw the first trailer for Across the Universe, and it looked fantastic. What could go wrong with a musical featuring all Beatles songs and starring a guy that looks like Albert from Little House on the Prairie?

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Sue's Reviews: The Heartbreak Kid

Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:52 PM EDT

When I first hear the title The Heartbreak Kid, I thought it sounded like a 30-year-old TV movie starring Kristy McNichol. Little did I know it actually was a 30-year-old movie starring Cybill Shepherd, and the new Farrelly Brothers movie was a loose remake.

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Sue's Reviews: May Sequels

Mon Jun 4, 2007 2:04 PM EDT

28 Weeks Later: I enjoyed the original 28 Days Later, but I was not impressed with this sequel.

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entertainment, pirates, movie, review, spiderman, cinema, sues-reviews, hot-fuzz, 28-weeks-later

Smokin' Bat's Breath! Voyagers! DVD to Release on July 17th

Tue May 22, 2007 4:05 PM EDT

Sunday nights in 1982 were not about 60 Minutes for this nine-year-old. They were all about Bogg and Jeffrey, and their time-traveling adventures on NBC's Voyagers!. Nothing got my chores done faster than the possibility of missing that theme song.

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Sue's Reviews: Blades of Glory and Grindhouse

Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:45 PM EDT

Anyone with a few extra bucks to spend is in luck – there are some surprisingly good choices at the theater this month.

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entertainment, movies, cinema, will-ferrell, sues-reviews, robert-rodriguez, tarantino, kurt-russell, jon-heder, grindhouse

'Survivor' Heading to China for Season 15

Seeded on Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:09 AM EDT (Variety.com)

CBS has booked China as the location for the next edition of "Survivor," and locked in premiere dates for two key summer reality shows -- including Mark Burnett's "Pirate Master."

entertainment, china, survivor

Sue's Reviews: Sweet Land

Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:24 PM EDT

I finally had an opportunity to see Sweet Land in a second-run theater a month or so ago. Independent, low-budget movies like Sweet Land sometimes never make it to smaller cities like mine, victims of the relentless wave of forgettable blockbusters.

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Sue's Reviews: 300

Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:05 AM EDT

Good news, ladies! 300 provides the perfect male equivalent to lingerie, and believe it or not, it's a red cape and a leather diaper. Bad news for your partners, you might grow a mustache from all the residual testosterone.

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Sue's Reviews: Pan's Labyrinth

Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:16 PM EDT

I saw The Number 23 last week, but writing a review about that steaming pile of mediocrity after seeing Pan's Labyrinth proved to be difficult. Joel Schumacher should have stayed away from that one, and I should have too. Pan's Labyrinth is in a completely different class.

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Sue's Reviews: Dreamgirls

Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:35 AM EST

I love musicals. Even the bad ones have a certain charm, am I right, all you Xanadu and Grease 2 fans? The heavily-hyped Dreamgirls promised some great music and some great performances. The music didn't disappoint. But an Oscar-quality acting performances was nowhere to be found.

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Sue's Reviews: Catch and Release

Sat Feb 3, 2007 12:38 PM EST

Damn that Zach Braff. Ever since his Garden State Soundtrack helped catapult a mediocre movie into cult status, Hollywood has been giving music some cushy starring roles.

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entertainment, jennifer-garner, movie-review, catch-and-release, kevin-smith, sues-reviews, susannah-grant, cinemas

Sue's Reviews: Dismal December

Tue Jan 9, 2007 10:55 AM EST

My December trips to the theater left me feeling like I did when I opened up new underwear on Christmas morning – a little disappointed.

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Sue's Reviews: Casino Royale and Happy Feet

Fri Dec 8, 2006 11:09 AM EST

I was lucky enough to find myself in a theater not once, but twice during the Thanksgiving holiday - or as I like to call it, a wonderful beginning to an extra happy and joyous holiday season.

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Sue's Reviews: Stranger Than Fiction

Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:00 PM EST

The most entertaining moment in Stranger Than Fiction came as the credits rolled and my siblings and I were walking out of the theater. A young woman behind us said, "Wow, that wasn't what I expected!" I agreed.

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Sue's Reviews: The Prestige

Mon Nov 13, 2006 11:41 PM EST

I expected a lot from The Prestige. Not only is the movie about rival magicians, but it boasts names like Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, and Christopher Nolan, all of whom are capable of creating a little movie magic all by themselves. Darn those high expectations.

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Sue's Reviews: Hollywoodland

Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:06 AM EDT

Ah, autumn. If we believed every quote on movie posters and commercials from now until the end of the year, every drama released would be an Oscar shoo-in.

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entertainment, movie, movies, ben-affleck, movie-review, sues-reviews, hollywoodland, adrien-brody, diane-lane

Sue's Reviews: Crank

Tue Oct 3, 2006 2:10 PM EDT

Jason Statham and I have a love/hate relationship. He has got to be the most charismatic pig that I have ever had the pleasure and misfortune of viewing on the big screen. After watching Statham's latest movie, Crank, I admit that I was entertained.

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Sue's Reviews: The Last Kiss

Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:10 PM EDT

I am getting old. It became obvious to me while recently watching The Breakfast Club. Instead of ogling over Judd Nelson as I once did, I found myself thinking, "You know, SOMEONE has to put all those cards back in the card catalog in the correct order." It was a sad moment.

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Sue's Reviews: Amazing Race 10

Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:15 PM EDT

Welcome back, Phil old friend! The Amazing Race fills a void that no amount of Big Brother ever could. Sunday's premiere episode had all the familiar elements, and one lame twist.

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entertainment, cbs, amazing-race, phil-keoghan

Bob Seger Dumps Chevrolet

Seeded on Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:22 AM EDT (starpulse.com)

after watching Al Gore's global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Seger admits he is starting to see the beauty in smaller, more environmentally-friendly vehicles and his love affair with Chevrolet is over. You rock, Bob Seger!

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Sue's Reviews: Invincible

Fri Sep 8, 2006 11:29 AM EDT

You would think a movie based on the life of Vince Papale would write itself. The true(ish) story of how the 30-year old bartender/substitute teacher earned a place on the 1976 Philadelphia Eagles football team sounds like a shoo-in for Feel-Good-Movie of the Year.

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Guy Goma Goof to Become Movie?

Seeded on Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:31 PM EDT (empireonline.com)

Producer Alison Rosenweig plans to bring Guy Goma's story of mistaken identity to the big screen. Didn't we already see it in 1992 starring Dolly Parton?

entertainment, straight-talk, guy-goma, rosenweig

Sue's Reviews: The Descent

Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:47 PM EDT

I hate most women in horror movies. I get tired of their screaming and their tripping and their perfectly tousled hair and their pathetic dependence on men.

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Sue's Reviews: Clerks 2

Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:24 AM EDT

Like movie critic Joel Siegel, I too found one scene in Clerks 2 utterly repulsive. It involved a man doing something that, well, all I can say is that I had to close my eyes and cover my ears and go to my happy place until it was over.

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Sue's Reviews: Cars

Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:07 AM EDT

My husband calls me names like "Movie Nazi" when we watch movies together. According to him, anyone who didn't cry at the frozen baby in Titanic is completely void of emotion.

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Comments & Feedback

Sue's reviews are refreshing and a perfect column to have on your watch list! In fact, with young kids at home I don't get out much to see movies (at least non-kid movies), so her reviews keep me up to date on what is going on in movie land.
— Lufbery

I second that.
— Paradox460

Quite possibly one of the finest film reviewers to be found on Newsvine or anywhere else. And if I had a shred of credibility that might mean something.
— M. Remmers