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Jon Stewart’s “Rosewater” Gets U.S. Release
Open Road Films announced they picked up the U.S. distribution rights to Jon Stewart's Rosewater, the political drama that marks the directorial debut for the host of "The Daily Show." Gael Garcia Bernal stars in this real-life drama as Maziar Bahari, the BBC ...
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“The Double”: A Harmonious Blend of Orwellian Paranoia and Kafkaesque Psychological Terror
The Double opens with a medium close-up shot of Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg), seated in a moving train. The lights in the tunnel fill the frame intermittently, as do the eerily flickering lights in the train car. Simon seems lost in the disturbing harmony of ...
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Criticwire’s Sam Adams Suggests There May Be Too Many Comic Book Films
Criticwire's Sam Adams lobbed a fastball down the middle of the plate yesterday when he asked if there are too many superhero movies? The question is not unwarranted; comic book films are largely based on the same structures (origin story, escalation, bait-and...
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Gia Coppola Sparks Teen Angst Pizzazz in Directorial Debut “Palo Alto”
The common charge leveled at the Coppola progeny - that they are the beneficiaries of nepotism that not only gets them movie deals but results in films about the insular wealthy - will no doubt be applied to Gia Coppola’s feature debut Palo Alto. Within the fi...
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8 Great Nurses in Movies
You may or may not be aware, but this week is National Nursing Week here in North America (concluding with International Nurses Day on May 12th), so be extra nice to the men and women who take care of you long after the doctor's gone home. Should you be fortun...
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Putting the Geek to the Plow
Faux film criticism, Youtube critics and where we are headed.
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“Ida”: Enjoy the Silence
Anna grew up in a covent, sheltered from the everyday struggles. Wanda, a bitter stalinist show-trial prosecuting star, has experienced all life-shattering things there are and grew incredibly thick skin. A naïve, motherless girl, discovering the truth about h...
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“Spring Breakers: The Second Coming” Is…Coming
It's happening. There is a sequel in development to 2013's masterpiece of neon-tinged debauchery, Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers. Titled Spring Breakers: The Second Coming (obviously), it appears that the production company Wild Bunch is going to the Cannes ...
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“Under the Skin”: A Study of Predator as Prey
Warning: this post may contain spoilers for "Under the Skin."
After a second viewing of Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin, I'm comfortable calling it a masterpiece. Not just an other-worldly meditation on what it means to be human, like the more obvious them...
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