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2014 has come to a close, which means it’s once again time for my look-back at the best and worst movies of the past six months. From July through December, I saw 41 flicks… and, yes, I missed a handful– but most of them were intentional (Annie, Ouija, The Best […]

We’re half-way through 2014, which means we’ve arrived at my semi-annual look at the best and worst movies of the past six months. From January through June, I saw 26 movies (a light load, I know… chalk it up to my semi-retirement, which I have since emerged from). Some of […]

2013 has come to a close, which means it’s once again time for my look-back at the best and worst movies of the past six months. From July through December, I saw 41 flicks… and, yes, I missed a handful– but most of them were intentional (Insidious: Chapter 2, The […]

We’re half-way through 2013, which means we’ve arrived at my semi-annual look at the best and worst movies of the past six months. From January through June, I saw 45 movies at Essex Cinemas and Cumberland 12– some good, some bad. But all of them had something to offer. Without […]

2012 has come to a close, which means it’s once again time for my look-back at the best and worst movies of the past six months. From July through December, I saw 51 movies at Essex Cinemas and Cumberland 12. And, yes, I missed a handful, but most of them […]

…and with that, we’re halfway through 2012– so it’s once again time for my look-back at the best and worst movies of the past six months. From January to July, I saw 50 movies at Essex Cinemas and Cumberland 12. And, yes, I missed a handful of movies… sometimes intentional […]

Here we are, starting another new year– so it’s once again time for my look-back at the best and worst movies of the past six months. From July to December, I saw 57 movies at Essex Cinemas and Cumberland 12 (plus two –The Descendants and My Week with Marilyn- that […]

Well, we’ve officially reached the halfway point of 2011, so it seems like a good time to take a quick look back at what we’ve seen in theaters so far this year. In all, I caught 60 movies at Essex Cinemas and from January 1 through July 2– including 17 […]

Now that that 2010 is safely in our rear-view mirror, it’s a perfect time to look back at the movies that came and went. In all, I saw 57 movies at Essex Cinemas from July 1 through December 31– including 15 in 3D, and 5 in the new T-REX theater. […]

Now that the first six months of 2010 are behind us, it seems like a particularly appropriate time to look back at the movies that came and went. All in all, it was a rather uneventful half-year, with only a handful of standout movies, a couple surprises, a lot of […]