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Oscar Moment: “The Way Back”
We won’t be seeing “The Way Back” until 2011, but since it has a nice little qualifying run in December, it is considered for the 2010 Academy Awards. Frustrating for average bloggers like me who...
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REVIEW: The Way Back
Long, grueling journeys requiring great endurance can make for great cinema. Peter Weir, the director of the fantastic Best Picture nominated “Master & Commander,” does a great job portraying the...
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REVIEW: Violet & Daisy
Geoffrey Fletcher’s jump from writing the Oscar-winning “Precious” to penning and directing “Violet & Daisy” is hardly a logical one. How someone goes from something so raw and emotionally moving...
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REVIEW: Hanna
When the score is the best part of a movie, you know it’s going to be a doozy. Although to be fair, the score for “Hanna” is composed by The Chemical Brothers – and it is wicked awesome. If you are a...
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REVIEW: Lost River
Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, “Lost River,” opens with a crooning Americana theme (“In the Still of the Night”) playing over alternating images of alternating suburban decency and urban decay in...
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LISTFUL THINKING: 10 British Actors Who Would Have CRUSHED Harry Potter
With Eddie Redmayne now in official talks for “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” a spinoff of the “Harry Potter” series, I figured now was as good a time as ever to turn a long-gestating list...
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REVIEW: Brooklyn
Sincerity has gone out of style in the world of adult filmmaking, perhaps as a sort of defense mechanism against the ever encroaching threat of extinction. (That’s just speculation on my part, though.)...
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REVIEW: How I Live Now
Plot-wise, not a lot separates Kevin MacDonald’s “How I Live Now” from prestige film “Atonement.” (And yes, going beyond the fact that both feature Saoirse Ronan.) The two films feature the discovery...
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