A Note on '12 Years A Slave'
Watching Steve McQueen's visualization of the autobiography is at times gut-wrenching. The emotional response the film elicits results from more than ...
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For Charlie Kaufman, with each passing film he has continued to deconstruct what we typically expect from a standard narrative, acknowledging there ar...
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The Sheriff, an enigmatic leader ready to break the law to enforce the law....
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Stress has been attacking Lindsey's body as she completes her Labor and Delivery training while being 8 weeks pregnant. My solution, a date night sta...
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Costa brought the production to Cochabamba for one reason - cheap labor. The impoverished Bolivians came out in droves to an open casting call overwhe...
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Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore, a quiet and lonely man who is dealing with an impending divorce. Through the letters he composes for other people at ...
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Read Full Entry →A Note on 'Insidious'
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Read Full Entry →A Note on MacBeth
You are, I’m sure, familiar with the plot. MacBeth, the loyal Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from “three weird sisters” who tell him he will one...
Read Full Entry →A note on Preston Sturges, part 1
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Read Full Entry →A Note on Preston Sturges, pt. 2 (major spoilers as I discuss the lackluster endings)
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Read Full Entry →A note on Rex Reed and True Grit
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Read Full Entry →A note on Shame
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Read Full Entry →A Note on The Lobster
Rachel Weisz’s unaffected narration sets the tone of the film and introduces us to David (Collin Farrell). He’s an “unmatched” man with a boarder coll...
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Read Full Entry →A Note on the Notes
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Read Full Entry →A Note on The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch immediately establishes itself as a film not just pushing the limits of what people have seen in Westerns up until the time (1969) but ...
Read Full Entry →A note on Tom Hardy and the film 'Bronson'
It's a one man show! Starring Britain's most violent prisoner and most expensive mental patient. He stands before a captive audience, breaking the for...
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Read Full Entry →A stream of thought on a King's Speech tease...
ALACK! deception the man in a horrible shade of burgandy cries out this theater is screening the taymor adapted shakespeare finale The Tempest SPRING!...
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Read Full Entry →Notes on A Mondo Night at The 'New' Beverly!
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Read Full Entry →Rambling about Capra and Sturges
When Capra was down and out, living in a room from which he'd soon be evicted and unable to find an engineering job, he was approached by a man named ...
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I though Thomas Haden Church played a great teacher, again the cool teacher that we all wish we had in high school. He's able to make great moments a...
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