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Valentine’s Day – Film Review

Posted on12. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist The new romantic comedy Valentine’s Day has everything – that is, except for characters and a plot. Overstuffed with star wattage and storytelling clichés but not one single idea of substance, Gary Marshall’s film only needed to be this February’s He’s Just Not That Into You, and it couldn’t even be that. [...]

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That Evening Sun - Film Review

Posted on14. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Brent Simon About this time of year, every year, there’s at least one spare, micro-budgeted indie film that features a ruminative, calling card performance by an aging actor. This year that film is That Evening Sun, and that actor is Hal Holbrook, Oscar-nominated a few years back for Into the Wild. Based on a [...]

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Me and Orson Welles - Film Review

Posted on13. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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It won’t be for this pleasant bauble — and there’s no way to tell exactly for what it will be, given his varied filmography — but Richard Linklater will eventually win an Academy Award. The Texas-born indie auteur brings to bear his characteristically spry touch to yet another very different sort of movie than he’s [...]

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Youth in Revolt - Film Review

Posted on13. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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In everything from Arrested Development to big screen hits Superbad and Juno, Michael Cera has traded on self-negating humor and muttered, sardonic asides. He shakes loose of that character template (well, partially, at least) in Youth in Revolt, a picaresque booster shot of wily irreverence that puts a fresh, outrageous spin on adolescent obsession and [...]

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Up in the Air - Film Review

Posted on13. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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It’s rare, the film so perfectly bittersweet that it can put a smile on your face even as it simultaneously puts a lump in your throat or a pang of wincing recognition on your face, but that’s the case with Up in the Air, which exists at the perfect intersection of snappish fun, modulated gravity, [...]

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The Road - Film Review

Posted on13. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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Adapted by Joe Penhall from Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, desperately bleak and heartbreaking novel of the same name, The Road is a post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of an unnamed father (Viggo Mortensen) and his 11-year-old son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) as they journey toward the coast across a barren United States which has been destroyed by [...]

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A Single Man, Film Review

Posted on09. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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Christopher Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical novel forms the basis of fashion designer Tom Ford’s directorial debut, an exactingly constructed, mostly well acted period piece drama about a broken man who, in the wake of his longtime companion’s death, can scarcely see any sort of future on the horizon. Set in Los Angeles in 1962, A Single Man, centers [...]

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Moon - Film Review

Posted on19. Apr, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist While I’ve never been particularly keen on filmmakers who openly reference big-name works in the service of creating their own (the Tarantinos of the world are exempt by virtue of the obscurity of their sources of inspiration), I admire the fact that writer-director Duncan Jones tapped no less than 2001 as a [...]

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Is Anybody There? - Film Review

Posted on19. Apr, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Brent Simon A simple, straightforward and sweetly dispositioned multi-generational dramedy without much thunderclap revelation, Michael Caine’s Is Anybody There? marks the sort of solid, unfussy, character-rooted filmmaking that Hollywood studios have mostly abandoned in their pursuit of the latest hot-shit comic book or videogame property. Set in 1980’s seaside England, the movie tells the [...]

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Tyson - Film Review

Posted on19. Apr, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Brent Simon 2005’s Unleashed starred Bob Hoskins as a particularly nasty gangster and Jet Li, who’s been literally raised as a caged dog, as his feral, martial arts-gifted enforcer. At the time it seemed a silly conceit for an action film, something just outrageous enough to serve as a juicy hook while also providing [...]

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