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Fandango Offers Holiday Movie Guide.(Movie review)

Article from: Entertainment Close-up Article date: November 17, 2008

ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-17 November 2008-Fandango Offers Holiday Movie Guide(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com

Designed as a guide to help consumers with their moviegoing decisions this season, Fandango said its Holiday Movie Guide has launched at fandango.com/holiday.

The holiday movie guide on Fandango, a movie destination, offers a full movie calendar of the season's hottest flicks, a vacation sweepstakes, premiere photos and entertaining lists of the season's notable cinematic achievements, the company said.

One list entitled "Twelve Holiday Movies ...

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Cloverfield Not Monstrous

Posted Jan 18, 08 12:23 PM CST in Gossip,  Arts & Living 

Cloverfield Not Monstrous
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(Newser) – Cloverfield “is going to divide audiences,” predicts ReelViews’ James Berardinelli, and if the critics are any indication, he’s right. The film’s Godzilla/Blair Witch high concept is a love-it-or-hate-it proposition. For Berardinelli, the shaky handheld view provides immediacy and intensity. Time’s Richard Corliss is less entertained. “We know only what they know,” he writes. “I.e., not much.”

Corliss also deducts points for the characters’ stupidity, which, he muses, “is a crucial aspect of a genre that trades in moral threat.” The protagonists get no love from Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, who found himself begging “for the monster to show up and stomp these annoying nonentities.” For Travers, Cloverfield is a trite, poorly acted missed opportunity: "Hot damn, what it might have been.”

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