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“Premature” Too Sticky In Its Execution Despite a High Concept
It's no accident that every review of Premature refers to the film within the context of its relationship to Harold Ramis’s Groundhog Day. The new film’s narrative similarity to the older one — in both, the protagonist finds himself reliving the same day witho...
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How Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing” Changed My Perception of Black America For The better
"On Second Thought" is a weekly column filled with personal written and visual reflections on all things cinematic by critic and video essayist Michael Mirasol.
1989 was a turning point in my life. My family moved into a new home, a two-story house in a...
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The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: “The Wind Rises”
"The wind is rising! ... We must try to live!"
~Paul Valéry
The Wind Rises may be classified as a "biopic," but it is less a document of a man than it is of a dream: beginning with its birth, progressing through its lifespan, and then finally waving a tearfu...
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Blu-Ray Review: The Unknown Known
Distributor: Anchor Bay
MSRP: $29.99
Release Date: July 01, 2014
Region A
Buy at Amazon
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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Putting Women in Their Place: Actresses Back in the Spotlight
When the average moviegoer is asked to name some of the greatest female characters, the first names that spring to mind are Ripley and Sarah Connor. Actresses were asked to do exciting things after the 1940s and 50s and films were littered with great female pe...
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The “World” As He Knows It: “Whole Wide World”, Perspective, and “Stranger Than Fiction”
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.
While Marc Forster’s Stra...
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“Hellion” Is Merely As Generic As Its Title
One of the few consolations of a beloved television series going off the air is seeing where the members of its cast wind up next. For five white-knuckle seasons, AMC’s Breaking Bad was a prime showcase for Aaron Paul, who, over the course of the series, grew ...
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“The Fault In Our Stars” Earns The Tears You’ll Inevitably Shed
As tempting as it is to roll eyes at the subject matter of teenage love fettered by terminal illness, Josh Boone’s The Fault In Our Stars -a refreshingly sober melodrama, respectful of such a weighty topic it dissects- requires one to check that attitude at th...
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Blu-Ray Review: Rollerball (1975)
Label: Twilight Time
MSRP: $29.95
One-disc set (1 BD)
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Region Free
Buy Exclusively at ScreenArchives.com (Limited Supply of 3,000 Units)
Movie: C-, Video: B, Audio: C, Extras: C
Released a year prior to Network, Norman Jewison’...
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