http://c1n.tv Fri, 17 May 2013 14:27:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://c1n.tv/the-big-wedding-lives-up-to-its-name/ http://c1n.tv/the-big-wedding-lives-up-to-its-name/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 13:16:13 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=21678 “Lives Up to Its Name” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! The Big Wedding is like a French farce, only without the madcap pacing, which is halfway understandable, because it is adapted from a 2006 French comedy, Mon Frere Se Marie, which means “My Brother Is Getting Married.” Those French sure have a [...]...]]> http://c1n.tv/the-big-wedding-lives-up-to-its-name/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/the-company-you-keep-a-blast-from-the-past/ http://c1n.tv/the-company-you-keep-a-blast-from-the-past/#comments Sat, 04 May 2013 13:37:24 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=21644 “A Blast from the Past” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! The Company You Keep is based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Neil Gordon; Robert Redford produced, directed, and stars in it; and it is about an anti-war protester from the Seventies who has been underground all this time, but is now [...]...]]> http://c1n.tv/the-company-you-keep-a-blast-from-the-past/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/disconnect-a-heavy-handed-look-at-serious-problems/ http://c1n.tv/disconnect-a-heavy-handed-look-at-serious-problems/#comments Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:55:49 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=21601 "Hotshots" looks at a movie!...]]> http://c1n.tv/disconnect-a-heavy-handed-look-at-serious-problems/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/the-sapphires-a-sweet-story-set-during-vietnam-war/ http://c1n.tv/the-sapphires-a-sweet-story-set-during-vietnam-war/#comments Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:44:26 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=21542 "Hotshots" looks at a movie!...]]> http://c1n.tv/the-sapphires-a-sweet-story-set-during-vietnam-war/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/the-place-beyond-the-pines-a-terrific-wonderful-drama/ http://c1n.tv/the-place-beyond-the-pines-a-terrific-wonderful-drama/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:43:16 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=21402 "Hotshots" looks at a movie!...]]> http://c1n.tv/the-place-beyond-the-pines-a-terrific-wonderful-drama/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/the-host-of-two-minds-one-body/ http://c1n.tv/the-host-of-two-minds-one-body/#comments Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:42:30 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=21263 "Hotshots" looks at a movie!...]]> http://c1n.tv/the-host-of-two-minds-one-body/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/admission-a-multicultural-and-multigenerational-love-story/ http://c1n.tv/admission-a-multicultural-and-multigenerational-love-story/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:31:23 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=21198 “Multicultural and Multigenerational Love Story” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Admission is full of laughs and enough awkward situations that produce their own laughs that you almost forget that basically you almost overlook the fact that it is also a love story on many different levels. Tina Fey [...]...]]> http://c1n.tv/admission-a-multicultural-and-multigenerational-love-story/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/the-incredible-burt-wonderstone-so-credible-its-a-cliche/ http://c1n.tv/the-incredible-burt-wonderstone-so-credible-its-a-cliche/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:01:36 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=21069 “So Credible, It’s a Cliche” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! The Incredible Burt Wonderstone may appear to be fresh and original, but if you examine it closely, you will realize that you have already seen this movie many times before. It has the same plot as many other movies before it, and all you [...]...]]> http://c1n.tv/the-incredible-burt-wonderstone-so-credible-its-a-cliche/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/the-last-exorcism-part-ii-not-really/ http://c1n.tv/the-last-exorcism-part-ii-not-really/#comments Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:24:28 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=20896 “Or Is It?” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! The Last Exorcism Part II has a title that makes you think, whereas the movie itself just makes you cringe or laugh, sometimes simultaneously. Maybe the filmmakers just wanted to cash in on the popularity of the trend in blockbuster series of movies [...]...]]> http://c1n.tv/the-last-exorcism-part-ii-not-really/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/a-good-day-to-die-hard-a-video-game-of-mass-destruction/ http://c1n.tv/a-good-day-to-die-hard-a-video-game-of-mass-destruction/#comments Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:36:19 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=20819 “Video Game of Mass Destruction” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! A Good Day to Die Hard is the fifth in the series of movies starring Bruce Willis as wisecracking action hero John McClane, which began in 1988, and of all the movies in the series, this one is the most recent. In other words, if you [...]...]]> http://c1n.tv/a-good-day-to-die-hard-a-video-game-of-mass-destruction/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/identity-thief-another-road-trip-comedy/ http://c1n.tv/identity-thief-another-road-trip-comedy/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:36:41 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=20723 “Another Road-Trip Comedy” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Identity Thief is a comedy about a serious subject that has even been in the news lately: stealing someone’s identity and using it to the thief’s advantage. In this case, Melissa McCarthy plays the title character, her name is Diana when [...]...]]> http://c1n.tv/identity-thief-another-road-trip-comedy/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/identity-thief-movie-trailer/ http://c1n.tv/identity-thief-movie-trailer/#comments Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:00:46 +0000 Channel 1 Networks http://c1n.tv/?p=20621 Unlimited funds have allowed Diana (McCarthy) to live it up on the outskirts of Miami, where the queen of retail buys whatever strikes her fancy. There’s only one glitch: The ID she’s using to finance these sprees reads “Sandy Bigelow Patterson”….and it belongs to an accounts rep (Bateman) who [...]...]]> http://c1n.tv/identity-thief-movie-trailer/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/safe-haven-might-have-started-with-gimmicky-ending-first/ http://c1n.tv/safe-haven-might-have-started-with-gimmicky-ending-first/#comments Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:13:23 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=20611 “Gimmicky Ending First” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Safe Haven is from a Nicholas Sparks novel, and for those of you out there who are familiar with his novels and the movies made from his novels, I need to say nothing more. However, for those of you out there who aren’t familiar with them, [...]...]]> http://c1n.tv/safe-haven-might-have-started-with-gimmicky-ending-first/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/quartet-more-than-just-the-big-game-gala/ http://c1n.tv/quartet-more-than-just-the-big-game-gala/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:58:49 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=20571 “More Than Just ‘The Big Game’ Gala” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Quartet is another in a string of recent movies about colorful, quirky oldtimers, the first film directed by actor Dustin Hoffman, and much more entertaining than you might have expected. The credit for a large part of that has to [...]...]]> http://c1n.tv/quartet-more-than-just-the-big-game-gala/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/amour-is-difficult-but-thought-provoking/ http://c1n.tv/amour-is-difficult-but-thought-provoking/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:15:54 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=20446 “Difficult, but Thought-Provoking” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Amour means “love,” “affection,” or “passion” in French, and although the film has dialogue in French with English subtitles and it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Feature, it was not submitted by France, [...]...]]> http://c1n.tv/amour-is-difficult-but-thought-provoking/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/silver-linings-playbook-contrived-and-over-the-top/ http://c1n.tv/silver-linings-playbook-contrived-and-over-the-top/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:19:49 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=20436 “Contrived and Over the Top” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Silver Linings Playbook has already won some awards and will likely win more, but some of you might be disappointed in this so-called “dramedy” about two troubled souls. Bradley Cooper stars as Pat, he is in a psychiatric facility in [...]...]]> http://c1n.tv/silver-linings-playbook-contrived-and-over-the-top/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/rust-and-bone-is-french-murkiness/ http://c1n.tv/rust-and-bone-is-french-murkiness/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:20:11 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=20407 “French Murkiness” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Rust and Bone is a French film, and sometimes that is all that needs to be said, but in this case that describes only half of it. It stars Marion Cotillard, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the 2007 La Vie en Rose, in which she [...]...]]> http://c1n.tv/rust-and-bone-is-french-murkiness/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/zero-dark-thirty-deserves-all-the-awards-it-receives/ http://c1n.tv/zero-dark-thirty-deserves-all-the-awards-it-receives/#comments Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:12:19 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=20365 “All the Awards It Receives” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Zero Dark Thirty is the fascinating story of the hunt for Osama bin Laden by the C.I.A. and the attack by SEAL Team 6 on his compound in Pakistan which ended with his death. It was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who previously directed the [...]...]]> http://c1n.tv/zero-dark-thirty-deserves-all-the-awards-it-receives/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/promised-land-is-a-big-tease/ http://c1n.tv/promised-land-is-a-big-tease/#comments Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:27:47 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=20325 “A Big Tease” “Hotshots” looks at a movie! Promised Land is a film about the controversial subject of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” in which an oil and gas company drills into the ground and pumps liquid chemicals into the earth in order to release the oil and natural gas that is trapped [...]...]]> http://c1n.tv/promised-land-is-a-big-tease/feed/ 0 http://c1n.tv/django-unchained-is-typical-tarantino-overindulgence/ http://c1n.tv/django-unchained-is-typical-tarantino-overindulgence/#comments Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:52:50 +0000 Dan Culberson http://c1n.tv/?p=20302 “Typical Tarantino Overindulgence” “Hotshots” looks at a movie!   Django Unchained was written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, and it is a terrific movie for the first two hours. Unfortunately, the movie is three hours long, and the last hour is full of Tarantino’s self-indulgence at its [...]...]]> http://c1n.tv/django-unchained-is-typical-tarantino-overindulgence/feed/ 0