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“Sabotage”: A Promising Return to Form For Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sabotage begins with low-fi footage of a woman in close-up being tortured as she wails for help that will never come, and it never gets any more pleasant from there. Following in the wake of End of Watch, the film only deepens co-writer/director David Ayer’s c...
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Are We Not Critics? A Rallying Cry
Critics across disciplines and mediums have been abuzz over the last week or so, arguing and discussing the current state of pop culture criticism. It began with Ted Gioia's piece for the The Daily Beast on March 18, in which he wrote that modern music critici...
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The Lars von Trier Retrospective
There are very few provocateurs in the film biz these days, and of the ones that do exist, hardly any hold a candle to Lars von Trier's consistently shocking, daring, extraordinary filmography. Originally one of the founders of the Dogme-95 movement of avant-g...
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“Muppets Most Wanted”: The Kid-Friendly Version of “Face/Off”
Like The Great Muppet Caper, the follow-up to The Muppet Movie, Muppets Most Wanted concerns itself with the theft of British jewels. Unlike Caper, Muppets Most Wanted is a lot of fun and a very good movie. It’s a loopy tribute to the anarchy of its titular c...
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Songs in the Key of Cinema: “Boom Boom” and Bond’s Masculinity in “Skyfall”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film and how that music fits within the context of the film as a whole and a place where we'll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
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Top 10 Films of 1932
The limited release of The Grand Budapest Hotel this past weekend was catnip for those of us who are fans of either a) Wes Anderson, b) classic Hollywood cinema, or especially c) all of the above. With the film being set predominantly in 1932 (or at least an a...
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The Male Gaze and Criticism
It's easy to forget sometimes that film/television critics are a homogeneous group (white men predominantly). A group of males that spend a majority of their time discussing their favorite shows and movies, and sometimes debating when consensus isn't had. Thes...
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“3 Days To Kill”: Not Suitable for Sober Viewers
Amber Heard stands under a bordello red spotlight on an otherwise empty set, her leg propped up suggestively, as if she were posing for a lurid portrait. But there's also a cell phone to her ear, no one's watching her, and she's alone. Kevin Costner's characte...
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Top 10 Romantic Fantasy Films
As anyone who has watched nearly any animated Disney film knows, romance and fantasy fit splendidly together. The dizzying rapture of love manifests physically in elements that are very much not of this world. It becomes at once familiar and strange, frighteni...
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Berlinale Review: Brutality and Beauty Are Mixed in Period-Thriller ‘71
Jack O’Connell, an actor who made his name in the UK as one of the main stars of popular teen series Skins, currently finds himself on something of a hot streak. After edgy prison-drama Starred Up, the young englishman is at the heart of yet another gut-wrench...
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