Laura Hooper Beck

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• Posted Weekend Watch: The Call, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, and Stoker to Culture/Entertainment
  The Call - Everywhere Halle Berry, a grizzled 911 Operator, gets a call from Abigail Breslin, who's been kidnapped by the coke-fueled ghost of...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Emperor, Oz, and a Serial Killer Comedy Road Trip (???) to Culture/Entertainment
  Emperor - Everywhere Does Tommy Lee Jones have Bell's Palsy? Because I don't think that dude can smile anymore. Something happened to him; please...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Jack the Giant Slayer, Phantom, & 21 and Up to Culture/Entertainment
  Jack the Giant Slayer - Everywhere Directed by Bryan Singer, and written by about 15 people, it's a 2013 IN YOUR FACE version of...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Snitch, Dark Skies, and Bless Me, Ultima to Culture/Entertainment
  Snitch - Everywhere An action thriller starring Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson as the father of a son who's wrongly accused of being a terrible...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Beautiful Creatures, Die Hard 52, and Charlie Sheen with a Job (LOL) to Culture/Entertainment
  Beautiful Creatures - Everywhere It's a thoughtful, fun, and complex Twilight-esque fantasy adventure about witches and warlocks. It's a sexy teen romp that knows...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Identity Thief, Side Effects, Top Gun in 3D IMAX (Of Course) to Culture/Entertainment
  Identity Thief - Everywhere Melissa McCarthy is a comedic gem, and if the collective we want to see her star in movies that aren't...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Oscar Nominated Shorts, And The Most Delightful Film of the Year to Culture/Entertainment
  In Another Country - Opera Plaza Cinemas Three different stories about three different French women named Anne, each of whom is visiting South Korea,...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Hansel & Gretel, Movie 43 & Quartet to Culture/Entertainment
  Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters - Everywhere It's the time of year when either nothing is released, or the crap that studios know don't...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Mama, The Last Stand, and Broken City to Culture/Entertainment
  The Last Stand - Everywhere I'm torn. This Kim Jee-Woon action-adventure has my least favorite actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and my most favorite actor, Forest...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Gangster Squad, $ellebrity, and A Haunted House to Culture/Entertainment
  Gangster Squad - Everywhere Super violent film that's also, despite its best attempts at being badass, a little cheesy. It's all ridiculous costume-y costumes...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Tchoupitoulas, Texas Chainsaw 3D, and Midnight Movies to Culture/Entertainment
  Tchoupitoulas - Everywhere A documentary crew follows three young brothers as they explore New Orlean's vibrant nightlife. It's supposed to be magical and whimsical...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Django Unchained, Parental Guidance, and Les Miserables to Culture/Entertainment
  Killing Them Softly - Roxie Three idiots try to con the mob and then a bad-ass Brad Pitt hunts them down with his rifle....
• Posted Weekend Watch: Jack Reacher, The Guilt Trip, This is 40 to Culture/Entertainment
  Jack Reacher - Everywhere Standard action-adventure fair -- kinda like a Designer Imposters version of Mission Impossible. Tom Cruise livens it up like the...
• Posted Weekend Watch: The Hobbit, Which Is Crap, and Pretty Much Nothing Else to Culture/Entertainment
  The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Everywhere The long-ass tale of Bilbo Baggins' big-ass feets' epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Hitchcock, A Terrible Rom-Com, And A White Dude On A Skateboard to Culture/Entertainment
  Playing For Keeps - Everywhere Terrible generic rom-com that for some reason is being advertised out the wazoo. Also, if you've seen the trailer,...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Brad Pitt is a Mob Enforcer, Boring Serial Killers, Another Hole in the Head to Culture/Entertainment
  Killing Them Softly - Everywhere Super-stylized dark comedy about some idiots who fuck with the mob. You would think people would finally learn about...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Twilight Is Finally Over, Bradley Cooper Romances Jennifer Lawrence, and Anna Karenina Is Gorgeous and Sad to Culture/Entertainment
  The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 - Everywhere It got "hot" teenagers and is filled with drama DRAMA DRAMA!!! but still manages...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Lincoln, Nazis, Bond, And Strings to Culture/Entertainment
  Skyfall - Everywhere It's Bond with emotional heft. He's not the love 'em and leave 'em super spy, anymore -- well, he is, but...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Wreck it Ralph, RZA and Lucy Liu Together at Last, and a Horror Film About Humanity (Hint: We're the Devil) to Culture/Entertainment
  Wreck It Ralph - Everywhere Animated comedy about a video game villan with a heart of gold. It's light and fluffy cotton candy and...
• Posted Weekend Watch: John Carpenter, Fun Size, and our Messed Up Health Care System, Happy Halloween! to Culture/Entertainment
  Cloud Atlas - Everywhere Wachowski Starship's latest, a remake of the epic multi-generational mindfuck of a novel. Like the book, the movie features characters...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Another Paranormal Activity, Tyler Perry as Not Madea, Fat Kids Rule the World to Culture/Entertainment
  Paranormal Activity 4 - Everywhere If you're a fan of the franchise, there are a few scares in here that you might make you...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Seven Psychopaths, Argo, & More White Guys Doing Things to Culture/Entertainment
  Seven Psychopaths - Everywhere Another Martin McDonagh movie about white guys being violent and speaking so fast and we can't understand them. So basically,...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Diana Vreeland, Frankenweenie, and a Whole Lot of Butter! to Culture/Entertainment
  Taken 2 - Everywhere Liam Neeson kicking ass and taking names even though he is a million years old and could never actually be...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Looper, Pitch Perfect, and a Bunch of Crapola to Culture/Entertainment
  Looper - Everywhere Rian Johnson's action thriller about Joseph Gordon Levitt-as-Bruce Willis killing Bruce Willis-as-Bruce Willis. CONFUSED??? That's right, it's a real mile-a-minute mindfuck...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Paul Thomas Anderson Tackles Religion, Cops Shoot It Out, and Troop Beverly Hills! to Culture/Entertainment
  Dredd 3D - Everywhere It looks a thousand times better than the Stallone adaptation of the far future dystopian comic. But also, watching my...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Arbitrage, Resident Evil, and Sexy Young Models! to Culture/Entertainment
  Arbitrage - Everywhere Richard Gere plays a seemingly mega-successful business magnate who is crumbling beneath his shiny exterior in this Nicholas Jarecki suspense-thriller. It...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Big, Big Week! Two Comedies Worth Seeing! It's a Miracle! to Culture/Entertainment
  The Possession - Everywhere A couple's young daughter buys a creepy box at a garage sale (what little girl wants a BOX? okay, sure.)...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a Bike Messenger, Frank Langella Befriends a Robot, and Cronenberg is Baaack to Culture/Entertainment
  Hit & Run - Everywhere Road trip romance action adventure mish-mash of a film starring Kristen Bell, who everyone loves, and Dax Shepard, who...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Action, Romance, and More Botox Than a Can of Expired Peaches to Culture/Entertainment
  The Awakening - Everywhere McNulty is a teacher at an all boys school that's haunted by sexxxy ghosts. Honestly, I don't know if they're...
• Posted Weekend Watch: Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis Run for Congress, And Jeremy Renner is Bourne(ish) to Culture/Entertainment
  The Bourne Legacy - Everywhere This is a sequel to the Bourne flicks that stars all-of-a-sudden-famous-person Jeremy Renner as a spy on the run...