Super Bow of no interest? No worries!

Opening This Week:

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/b/12_bigmiracle.htm> Big Miracle
★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - One of those formulaic, bare-minimum efforts that confuses
meaning well for being worthwhile. Right down to the banal title, "Big
Miracle" yearns for its audience to walk away stirred and inspired and
feeling just right. A great deal more pressing for viewers will be what's
next on the day's agenda.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/c/12_chronicle.htm> Chronicle
★★★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - In an age when cinema so sparsely amazes anymore, "Chronicle"
is a motion picture that does just that, again and again. "The Avengers,"
"The Dark Knight Rises," "The Amazing Spider-Man"-all of this year's
upcoming superhero releases better be bringing something mighty
groundbreaking to the table. If not, they'd be wise to just go home now.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/w/12_womaninblack.htm> The Woman in
Black
★★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - Director James Watkins expertly puts his audience through the
wringer of what reminds of a nightmarish funhouse carnival ride. Uncommonly
smart not only in what it does, but how it does it, this cinematic yarn is
what fans of 2011's "Insidious" have been patiently waiting for.
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Facebook IPO is coming

http://www.ifre.com/facebook-readies-to-file-us$5bn-ipo-could-grow/20046277.
article

SNEAK PREVIEW OF 28 UPCOMING SUPER BOWL ADS

http://www.businessinsider.com/here-are-the-ads-you-will-see-on-super-bowl-s
unday-2012-1#

Steve Bridges does Obama....worth a watch and good laugh

http://www.stevebridges.com/obamavideos-promo-Aug-2011.html

No football? No problem. A lot to see this weekend!

Opening This Week:

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/g/12_grey.htm> The Grey
★★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - To lay out the basic plot of "The Grey" is to make it sound
like an uninspired traipse through familiar territory, an amalgamation of a
dozen other movies tossed together. What a synopsis cannot describe is just
how skillfully made it is, and how unexpectedly evocative it gradually
becomes.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/m/12_manonaledge.htm> Man on a Ledge
★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - One moment of solitary reflection about "Man on a Ledge" and
the whole hamstrung thing crumbles. Still, taken on a scene-to-scene basis,
the film is not without its diversions. Coming less than a month into the
new year, prospective viewers would do wise to lower their expectations
accordingly.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/o/12_oneforthemoney.htm> One for the
Money
★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - The first film in what Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment
would no doubt love to turn into a profitable ongoing series, "One for the
Money" clanks with tone-deaf clunkiness, woebegone enough to turn off even
fans of the book. No wonder they chose not to screen the finished product
in advance for review. "One for the Money" is a surefire example of inept
filmmaking, absolutely reeking of rote desperation.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/p/12_perfectsense.htm> Perfect Sense
★★★½ (out of ★★★★)

Now OnDemand, Select Cities Feb 3 - "Perfect Sense" is an expert study in
paranoia, the fleetingness of one's past, and the memories that make us who
we are. It all boils down to the connection between emotions and senses,
and the fuse that could so easily short-circuit if one of them cut off.
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An alternative to the football playoff games?

Opening This Week:

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/h/12_haywire.htm> Haywire
★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - Gina Carano has got what it takes to move on to fuller, richer
parts in better films. For now, she's got a nice start in "Haywire."
Without her, there'd be no use for such a familiar, threadbare film to
exist at all.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/r/12_redtails.htm> Red Tails
½ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - "Red Tails" is off-putting for plenty of reasons, but its
shameless self-satisfaction-and for no valid reason, turning a prideful
part of black history into an unenlightened, frequently derogatory free-for-
all-is more than enough on its own to turn stomachs.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/u/12_underworld4.htm> Underworld:
Awakening
★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - Fleet pacing and some adequately handled action leave one
wondering if this might be the movie to turn the underachieving franchise
around. Instead, it loses its way just when it should be getting taken to
the next level. All things considered, "Underworld: Awakening" is at least
on par with its predecessors.
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The "Devil" is in the details......don't be fooled this weekend

Opening This Week:

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/d/12_devilinside.htm> The Devil Inside
★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - It's enough to make one want to break into the projector's
booth and burn the celluloid. The more the mind ponders "The Devil Inside,"
the more cheap, pointless and cockamamie it reveals itself to be. Horror
fans hoping to start 2012 with a bang are about to be in for a very rude
awakening.
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<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/n/12_norwegianwood.htm> Norwegian Wood
★★★ (out of ★★★★)

Select Cities - Low-key and sweeping, intimate and classically melodramatic,
"Norwegian Wood" never deviates from focus on its characters, but places
them within a tableau where falling in love and meeting an awful end are on
the same mounted-and expected-wavelength.
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