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To Half and Half Not: The Films to Remember from 2010 – 2014
The end of the year is, undoubtedly, a time of reflection: what we’ve experienced, what we’ve learned, how many resolutions we broke and what we’re going to do to rectify that, etc. It is also the time of lists. Lists, lists, lists. The internet in mid to late...
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Come Fail with Us: “The Life Aquatic” at 10
I first saw The Life Aquatic in late 2004, when it premiered at the Winifred Moore Auditorium as part of the Webster University Film series. The exhibitors had supplied the university with boxes of souvenir caps baring the film’s title and a distinctive traffi...
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Edgar Wright Shares His Favorite Flicks of 2014
The New York Film Critic's Circle released their picks for the best films of 2014 this morning, but I'm going to focus on the selections from the director of Shaun of the Dead and The World's End instead. Edgar Wright sat down with Esquire's Emily Zemler to di...
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District Mined: The Gerrymandering of Contemporary Cinema
While concerned citizens and political journalists agonized over the fate of the Senate in the weeks leading up to the mid-term elections, there was a good reason no one was talking about the fate of the House: Due to the gerrymandering of Congressional distri...
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2014 Gotham Awards Announced
The Gotham Awards are the earliest ceremony in awards season, and rather than focus on the some of the big-hitters later on in the year, they hold up some of the indie darlings already released in the year. Additionally, the Gotham nominators also recognize th...
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Weekend Box Office: Teen Lit, Muppets and Jesus
The weekend saw the release of the latest young-adult literature juggernaut to be filmed for its presumably large teen fanbase, and considering how many of those types of films have come out in recent years, it says something that this one did well, Yes, Diver...
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The Case Against Wes Anderson
There is a shot in the first reel of Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel that will feel awfully familiar to devotees of the Anderson canon. Hotel concierge Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes) walks down a long hallway off the lobby of the film’s titular hotel, and ...
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New Images Welcome You to ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
Wes Anderson's latest creation, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is another intricate and ornate cross-section into a world that normal people don't have the privilege of visiting. This Europe of the past, a sprawling and magnificent hotel set in the 1900s before the...
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Wes Side Story: Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest” Delightfully Opens 64th Berlinale
Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel delightfully opens the Berlinale.
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‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ Trailer Suggests It Is Definitely A Wes Anderson Movie
Wes Anderson is one of the more divisive directors working today, with a unique style that you tend to either love or loathe. This writer loves it unabashedly, and as such I was thrilled as I watched the trailer for his latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel. A...
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