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Why Laika Is The Most Important Modern Animation Studio
Josh Spiegel writes about Laika's new film "Kubo and the Two Strings" and the common themes it shares with the studio's other features.
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“The Walk” Is An Astonishing Spectacle
For acrophobics, The Walk will be an exercise in sadism. Director Robert Zemeckis’ camera caresses every inch of the Twin Towers, leering straight down into wide open spaces from 110 stories above the greatest city in the world. As master of all it surveys, th...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Marvel Bonus Episode One: The “Iron Man” Films
Happy Labor Day, everyone! While you take a load off on this holiday, Josh and Gabe have been hard at work on a new bonus episode of Mousterpiece Cinema. As they pause their exploration of the Lucasfilm canon, Josh and Gabe turn their eye to some of the early ...
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“Self/Less”
Self/Less is a long, slow slog with a disappointing capper in its “Directed by” credit. It’s hard to believe that Tarsem Singh, the same visual stylist behind The Cell, The Fall, and even the utterly silly Mirror Mirror, was behind the camera for this detached...
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“The Boxtrolls”
“We are revolting children, living in revolting times”, Tim Minchin’s lyrics go in one of Matilda The Musical’s most entrancing songs, which captures the true spirit of Roald Dahl’s imagination, which seeds the justifiably dark but ultimately hopeful depths of...
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Why Harvey Weinstein’s Neutering of Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Is An Insult To Us All
When I caught wind that Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean auteur behind complex genre masterworks The Host, Mother and Memories of Murder, had a new film coming out this year, it was enough to immediately become my most anticipated release of 2013. Bong is that k...
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