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“Stop Making Sense” Still Burns Down the House 30 Years Later
Break out the hair gel and your brightest blue and pink eye shadow, we’re going back to the synth-heavy future of the ‘80s to take in a Talking Heads concert. You heard me.
Now available on iTunes and making its way around the country on a theater tour, Jon...
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Blu-Ray Review: Deadly Eyes
Label: Shout Factory
MSRP: $26.99
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Region A
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Film: D+ / Video: C / Audio: C- / Extras: B
1982's Deadly Eyes has all the hallmarks of a cheap, exploitative horror movie. It establishes itself with a scientific lectu...
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Netflix Weekend 7/11: Three Films by Richard Linklater
This week we’ll be taking a look at three films by Richard Linklater, in honor of his most recent film, Boyhood, hitting theatres. Those films are Slacker, Waking Life, and Bernie.
Linklater’s first feature film, Slacker, simply just follows a day in the li...
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The Second Criterion: “Persona”
Few films have been written about and scrutinized as much as Ingmar Bergman's Persona. With so many elements of the feature ripe for discussion, from the unsettling opening sequence to the perceived merging of two separate women, the film has bewildered and fa...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (7/3/14–7/16/14)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1) Out of Sight
Steven Soderbergh's breakout commercial success, Out of Sight, caps off a run of Elmore Leonard adaptati...
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Netflix Weekend 7/4: AMERICA!
Welcome to Netflix Weekend! Each week I’ll be highlighting three films available to watch on Netflix Instant that (hopefully) share a coherent theme, and why they should be watched.
Since it’s July 4th weekend, I thought we’d take a look at three of the mos...
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Blu-Ray Review: The Unknown Known
Distributor: Anchor Bay
MSRP: $29.99
Release Date: July 01, 2014
Region A
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Movie: B+ / Video: B+ / Audio: B / Extras: B-
I first saw The Unknown Known at a press screening in Toronto, just before TIFF started last September. Surrounded by Ca...
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The Second Criterion: “Close-Up”
In Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up, art imitates life. Or perhaps the other way around. Frankly, it's kind of hard to tell, though the film very handily proves beyond a shadow of a doubt the hoary old adage that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. For many, Kia...
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Netflix Weekend: Buddy Cops, the Thrill of Discovery, and a Special Anniversary
Welcome to Netflix Weekend! Each week I’ll be highlighting three films available to watch on Netflix Instant that (hopefully) share a coherent theme, and why they should be watched.
In celebration of this weekend’s new releases, How to Train Your Dragon 2 ...
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Blu-Ray Review: “Ravenous”
Distributor: Shout! Factory/Scream Factory
MSRP: $24.97
Release Date: June 03, 2014
Region A
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Movie: A / Video: D / Audio: B+ / Extras: C
Antonia Bird’s Ravenous is a B-movie through and through. Set in the aftermath of the Mexican-A...
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