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Brian Webster

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Biography:

Brian is editor of Apollo Movie Guide, a leading online magazine focusing on reviews of the latest new movies, DVDs and home video releases. Apollo Guide's focus is on concise, intelligent reviews written to a high standard. A team of more than a dozen critics contributes, with every review edited by Brian. Apollo Guide is among the top-ten DVD review sites on the internet and provides the most thorough home video coverage available anywhere.

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Favorites:

Some Favourite 1998 films: The Butcher Boy, Saving Private Ryan, Zero Effect, Slums of Beverly Hills, A Perfect Murder, The Celebration, Smoke Signals, The Spanish Prisoner, The Horse Whisperer, Out of Sight Some least favourite 1998 films: Dirty Work, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, The Substitute 2: School's Out, Operation Delta Force II, The Hunted Some Favourite 1997 Films: Titanic, Welcome to Sarajevo, The Ice Storm, The Full Monty, Cop Land, Wag the Dog, As Good As it Gets, In the Company of Men Some Least Favourite 1997 Films: Melanie Darrow, The Right Connections, Quicksilver Highway, Sins of the Mind, Prince Valiant Some Favourite Directors: Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, John Sayles, Joel Coen, Constantin Costa-Gavras

Location:

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Official Website:

http://www.apolloguide.com

Reviews

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The Princess and the Frog (2009) 86% 74/100 “The result is a pretty standard old-style Disney story -- of damsel up against exotic challenges -- that's very nicely spiced up by its unique setting.” – Apollo Guide Oct 16, 2010 Full Review Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) 21% 53/100 “I never thought the day would come where I'd wish I were watching Scooby-Doo rather than what's actually onscreen.” – Apollo Guide Apr 8, 2010 Full Review Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) 93% 78/100 “Funny, eccentric and great-looking, Fantastic Mr. Fox is utterly unique and highly entertaining.” – Apollo Guide Apr 6, 2010 Full Review Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) 81% 73/100 “If you've got the slightest interest in Jackson's music, then this is the movie for you. If you want to learn the truth about the icon, then you're looking at the wrong film.” – Apollo Guide Jan 29, 2010 Full Review Surrogates (2009) 37% 63/100 “Sure, it's made capably, in a technical sense. But it's banal, utterly predictable and often quite stupid.” – Apollo Guide Jan 19, 2010 Full Review The Lovely Bones (2009) 31% 73/100 “Peter Jackson is anything but a good fit to direct this story, as his well-intentioned efforts at conveying transcendence sometimes look and feel phony.” – Apollo Guide Jan 15, 2010 Full Review Extract (2009) 62% 71/100 “Mike Judge's nuggets are often enjoyable enough for us to want to ignore the fact that Extract really doesn't work particularly well in its totality.” – Apollo Guide Jan 12, 2010 Full Review Brüno (2009) 68% 73/100 “You can watch Bruno purely as outrageousness or you can view it while pondering where the line is - or should be - between incisive social commentary and misanthropy.” – Apollo Guide Nov 18, 2009 Full Review Up (2009) 98% 86/100 “A joyous, wacky, sometimes bittersweet story of love, loss and making your dreams come true, Up does what Pixar movies usually do %u2013 it far exceeds our expectations.” – Apollo Guide Nov 13, 2009 Full Review Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) 46% 68/100 “I'm mystified by those who find these characters appealing.” – Apollo Guide Nov 6, 2009 Full Review The Proposal (2009) 45% 69/100 “It's not awful, certainly not memorable and - despite the words of at least one quote whore - it's not "the year's best comedy."” – Apollo Guide Nov 2, 2009 Full Review Chéri (2009) 52% 66/100 “Scene after scene unfolds, with colourful costumes, attractive sets, knowing glances and innuendo, but also a feeling that this is a pedestrian read-through of a stage play.” – Apollo Guide Oct 16, 2009 Full Review Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) 42% 64/100 “Clearly, one person's authentic homage is another person's overwrought teeth-gnashing fest, as Branagh's film never hesitates to slop on the melodramatic mustard.” – Apollo Guide Oct 14, 2009 Full Review The Craft (1996) 57% 70/100 “The 1970s-style special effects do little to distract us from an uneven script, direction and performances. Yet there's enough here for us to hope it'll come together.” – Apollo Guide Sep 30, 2009 Full Review Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 97% 90/100 “This is both an entertaining old movie and a significant historical document. If you love film, then you must see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” – Apollo Guide Sep 29, 2009 Full Review Earth (2007) 87% 71/100 “Like Arctic Tale, this is a great looking and interesting view of nature. Also like that other 2007 film, Earth falls short of being truly memorable.” – Apollo Guide Sep 14, 2009 Full Review Inside Planet Earth (2008) 100% 71/100 “Like Arctic Tale, this is a great looking and interesting view of nature. Also like that other 2007 film, Earth falls short of being truly memorable.” – Apollo Guide Sep 14, 2009 Full Review American Son (2008) 100% 74/100 “The sort of movie that folks who are addicted to a Tom Cruise-style action sequence every three minutes might dismiss as one in which "nothing happens."” – Apollo Guide Sep 8, 2009 Full Review Adventureland (2009) 89% 71/100 “Clearly, writer/director Greg Mottola has plenty of good ideas and an inclination toward quirky movies just slightly off-centre.” – Apollo Guide Sep 1, 2009 Full Review The Soloist (2009) 57% 71/100 “While I admire filmmakers who navigate material like this without sentimentality, this film stands back just a bit too much and leaves us feeling like distant observers.” – Apollo Guide Aug 13, 2009 Full Review Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) 26% 60/100 “Even without the bad timing %u2013 a paean to debt and excess released a few months after the world's biggest financial meltdown since the 1920s %u2013 it still would not have worked.” – Apollo Guide Jul 6, 2009 Full Review A Bug's Life (1998) 92% 75/100 “Promotes the classic American ethos of individualism without seeming preachy or narrow-minded, creating characters we enjoy, a story that's fun and visuals that sparkle.” – Apollo Guide Jun 17, 2009 Full Review Defiance (2008) 58% 81/100 “That Edward Zwick made such an honest film about the Bielski brothers is a wonderful gift, even if it is likely to be underappreciated by audiences.” – Apollo Guide Jun 17, 2009 Full Review Three Days of the Condor (1975) 87% 86/100 “Makes you wish the makers - and especially the funders - of today's overblown big budget thrillers could be made to learn from some of the finer thrillers of the 1970s.” – Apollo Guide Jun 1, 2009 Full Review Taken (2008) 60% 71/100 “It's got all the attributes of a guilty pleasure - excitement, some undeniably enjoyable scenes and the absence of what it needs to be more memorable and more substantial.” – Apollo Guide Jun 1, 2009 Full Review
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