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“Coming Home” Is Bland And Ultimately Forgettable
If you were told that Coming Home was about a mother suffering from amnesia and the father and daughter who are forced to come to terms with the effects of her illness on them, you might assume that this was Hollywood’s latest attempt at an Oscar-bait prestige...
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Why “Star Wars” Needs a Chinese Director
With Rian Johnson set to direct Star Wars Episode VIII, Internet response seems united in praise. He joins fellow “superfans” Gareth Edwards and Josh Trank, both attached to unspecified "Star Wars" spinoffs. It’s impossible to judge sequels to unmade sequels. ...
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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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