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All posts by Brogan Morris
Today’s Superhero Films Are The New Monster Movies
Superheroes today are more akin to horror-movie monsters than the inspiring comic-book icons of yesteryear.
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Montgomery Clift: The Original Method Actor
The names and faces of Marlon Brando and James Dean are instantly recognizable in contemporary popular culture, while Montgomery Clift remains a name and face relatively few today recognize. Oh, maybe they’ve heard of him, perhaps as the subject of a particula...
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“Locke”: A Bold and Economical Work of Art, Led by a Magnetic Tom Hardy
Steven Knight's debut feature as director, last year's Hummingbird (or, to go by its more generic US title, Redemption), misplaced the screenwriter's normally sharp sense of the plight of the lost and the disadvantaged amidst a too-basic morality play. But the...
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Bradford International Film Festival Review: “Tracks”
John Curran's Tracks has a brethren in the director's third film, The Painted Veil, in that both could together be aptly termed 'cinema of the pleasant'; the images are pretty, while there's not much in the way of conflict or probing into character. A based-on...
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Bradford International Film Festival Review: “Never Die”
What a stunning film Never Die is. Though this minimalist, Mexico-set beauty could be feasibly reduced to a much shorter length - what writer/director Enrique Rivero has to say about life and death, in the story of middle-aged farmer's wife Chayo (Margarita Sa...
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Bradford International Film Festival Review: “Double Play”
Experimental Wisconsin filmmaker James Benning wandered the cafe of Bradford Film Fest's National Media Museum, along with Double Play's writer/director Gabe Klinger, almost unnoticed, shuffling around in denim jacket under long, greying hair, and giving off a...
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Bradford International Film Festival Review: “Diego Star”
Last year, an unprecedented number of high profile movies about survival at sea appeared on our screens. All Is Lost, Captain Phillips, A Hijacking and Kon-Tiki together presented the ocean as a perilous zone for daredevils and jobsbodies alike, with land alwa...
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Challenging The Canon: “Fight Club”
To begin, I'll let on that I'm a huge fan of David Fincher; I dig The Game, I enjoy Alien 3 and I even think that the one about Brad Pitt aging in reverse is a glorious example of adult fairytale-telling. I don't consider it hyperbolic but more realistic to sa...
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“The Railway Man”: An Ambitious and Moving WWII Biopic
Jonathan Teplitzky's The Railway Man is an Oscar movie out of season. Lost in the doldrums between Academy Award consideration and the cacophonous din of the summer blockbusters, it's a film abandoned, with enough tragedy, triumph, sweeping romance and factual...
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Deconstructing DiCaprio: A Look Back at ‘Shutter Island’ and ‘Inception’
It was by tackling two unreliable protagonists that the actor was able to mature to where he is now.
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