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2016, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Rewatch “In the Loop”
On the eve of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Fran Hoepfner writes about the odd comfort of Armando Iannucci's "In the Loop."
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Weekend Box Office: “No Good Deed” Finally Shakes Things Up
After many weekends of low box office numbers, an unchanging top 2 and little in the way of new releases anyone wanted to see, there was finally some movement at the box office this weekend. Despite riding into town sans critic's screenings (and the critics ga...
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“The Drop” Features Stock Human Performances And An Exuberant Pit Bull
I have to suppress the urge to simply state that The Drop features copious material of Tom Hardy interacting with a puppy and then drop the mic. I feel like this should be enough of a draw for any prospective moviegoer. In a movie that features Hardy, the late...
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Bruised Hearts Attempt to Rediscover Love in Nicole Holofcener’s ‘Enough Said’
The sheen of middle-class comfort that coats much of Nicole Holofcener’s Enough Said in plastic only calls more attention to the wear in the faces of Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and Albert (James Gandolfini), two middle-aged divorcés who hit it off at a party ov...
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Remembering James Gandolfini (1961-2013)
We tend to want to remember our greatest actors for their “big” moments – ones ripened with dramatic stakes and acted out with a heightened, sometimes histrionic, intensity. Dishes flying, spittle projecting, jaws practically unhinging beneath the force of a y...
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