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 Higher GroundBy James Nolan271 pagesPublished by University of New OrleansReview by Fritz EskerFive months after Hurricane Katrina, a New Orleans man is killed in a mysterious drive-by shooting.

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A Dangerous Method3 starsBy David Vicari A Dangerous Method is directed by David Cronenberg, and while there are no exploding heads perpetrated by Scanners, Keira Knightley does, however, get spa

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  Director Roman Polanski’s latest film, Carnage (adapted from the stage play God of Carnage), is a partially successful film that runs out of gas in its final act. The movie takes place almost entirely in the

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In the wintery months of January and February, New Orleans gets the last of the previous year’s Oscar contenders. We also get something else...something darker. You see, January/February is generall

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 Girl With The Dragon Tattoo3 and 1/2 starsBy David VicariI haven’t read the book by the late Stieg Larsson, but I have seen the 2009 Swedish film version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, wh

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Descendants by David Vicari3 1/2 starsThe premise of The Descendants, based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, may sound like a schmaltzy made-for-Lifetime-TV-Movie, but it is far from it. This is Al

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Buried Halloween Horror FlicksBY DAVID VICARIIt’s always fun to turn out the lights and watch a horror movie marathon, especially on Halloween night. Staples for Halloween viewing consist of John Ca

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The 22nd Annual New Orleans Film Festival will be held from October 14th to the 20. This film lovers event will take place at various venues across the New Orleans Metropolitan Area, including The Theatres at Canal Place (333 Canal St.), Prytania Theatre (5339 Prytania St.

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This version begins not with Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin) but with his friend Ed (no longer “Evil” Ed this time around, and played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse of McLovin fame) convinced that Charley’s new neighbor, Jerry (Colin Farrell), is a vampire.

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Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) wants to serve his country, which is in the midst of World War II, but he’s a sickly, 90-pound weakling. After being rejected for military service a handful of times, Rogers is approached by German scientist, Dr. Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci), to participate in a top secret experiment.

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The title says it all, and the movie delivers the goods as cowboys battle it out with intergalactic aliens. What I liked best about the film is that it is constructed like a mystery. In the Arizona desert of 1873, a wounded cowboy (Daniel Craig) wakes up with amnesia as well as a strange metallic device locked around his wrist.

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Horrible Bosses is the second comedy, after 1987’s Throw Momma From the Train, to borrow from the central gimmick of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Strangers on a Train (definitely worth a look on DVD) where friends plot to commit murders

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There’s plenty of funny one-liners and even though the film sometimes feels like an R- rated sitcom, it’s a good sitcom. Timberlake and Kunis go a long way towards selling the material to the audience. With lesser actors, this might have been mediocre, but it ends up being entertaining.

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Why am I glad that the Harry Potter movies are now over with? Frankly, I was tired of being disappointed over and over again. Now, these films are well produced and perfectly cast, but they are constantly hampered by the humorless, stuffy screenplays by Steve Kloves.

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 Super 83 1/2 starsBy David VicariIt’s the summer of 1979 and a group of adolescent friends are making a horror movie using a super 8 camera. While filming one night, they witness a train crash