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“The Truth About You”
New Year’s Eve. A time for Best Friends™ to gather ‘round and learn Big Important Truths™ about themselves and each other. Or, in the case of The Truth About You, a time for irredeemably horrible people to say horrible things about each other in the name of “f...
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The Prestige Freak Show: Eddie Redmayne’s Metamorphosis in “The Theory of Everything”
It’s the year of “Oscar’s metamorphosis,” Jenelle Riley beamed in the header of a recent Variety survey of the lead performances anchoring the season’s graduating class of prestige pictures. Reese Witherspoon, she noted, shed her sunshiny demeanour to play a r...
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“The Color of Time”
You couldn’t possibly find a more “James Franco” project, produced by and starring James Franco, than The Color of Time, even if you tried. This is certainly not articulated as an insult or mockery, but rather, noted with a bizarre, distant, mild admiration. F...
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Blu-ray Review: “Safe”
Distributor: The Criterion Collection
Release Date: December 9, 2014
MSRP: $39.99
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Film: A / Video: A / Audio: B+ / Extras: A-
Safe begins with a sense of retreat, the camera pointed through the windshield of a car as it traverses Californi...
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Looking Back (Into Darkness): Abraham Polonsky’s “Force of Evil”
When sniffing for evidence of "subversion" in Abraham Polonsky's work, surely the House Un-American Activities Committee didn't have to look much further than the opening of his 1948 directorial debut, Force of Evil. The camera tilts down from the New York sky...
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“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1”
You can call what’s going to follow “half a review”, as for reasons that evidently don’t stretch beyond doubling up the box office of the franchise’s final installment, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 1 is also cut up in half. This is the first half of Su...
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“Nightcrawler” For You: How to Succeed at Capitalism Without Really Trying
Nightcrawler is supposedly about ethics in news journalism. To be more specific, the film is about the lack thereof. It’s allegedly similar to Network, Broadcast News, Ace in the Hole, and any number of films about journalists doing shady things or being force...
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The Emptiness of Days to Come: On Gender Stereotypes and Sex in “White Bird in a Blizzard”
When it comes to exploring themes on sexuality in film, few contemporary auteurs have been more radical, and more divisive, than Gregg Araki. A pivotal figure in the New Queer Cinema movement during the early 1990s, and highly considered to be the "bad boy" of...
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Wait Until Dark: 9 Unconventional Scary Movies
Watching horror movies is a standard and exciting Halloween tradition for many. But sometimes rewatching the same old films can get a little boring. You can certainly try to shake things up by watching something new or foreign, like Hausu or an early Cronenber...
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“Goodbye to Language 3D”
Old French master Jean-Luc Godard's new film uses 3D like nothing else before it.
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