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Film Review: Part 2 – The Girl Who Played With Fire
There are many questions that surround Lisbeth Salander. She has an enormous tattoo of a dragon on her back, but we don’t know how she got it or why. She has sex with her girlfriend, but it’s not so much an expression of love but…
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In regard to world cinema, 2010 should go down as the year of Lisbeth Salander. Here is one of the more uniquely fascinating characters of recent years, she is an enigma that invites us to look at her a little closer, but pushes us away…
READ MOREFilm Review – Love & Other Drugs
Love & Other Drugs (2010) is a screwball comedy, or a romantic comedy, or a serious melodrama, or a satire of the pharmaceutical trade. Are you starting to catch my drift? In some ways, the film works on all these levels, but in others, it…
READ MOREAn Appreciation – Pulp Fiction
To watch Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994) is to experience American filmmaking at its very best. Here is a film that broke through boundaries, that did not adhere to the rules of traditional storytelling, that decided to create something new and innovative. The early to…
READ MOREIndie Film Review – Easier with Practice
How nice it would be if the things we wanted just fell directly in to our laps. Never needing to work hard for it, never having to sacrifice anything, being rewarded for apparently no reason. Man, that would be nice. Well, that’s exactly what happens…
READ MOREFilm Review – Megamind
When I walked in to the theater to watch Megamind (2010), I was expecting to see a bad movie. The latest animated feature from Dreamworks did not look very appealing, the designs of the characters weren’t anything to be excited about, trailers didn’t do anything…
READ MOREIndie Film Review – Anvil! The Story of Anvil
When you think of great rock bands, which ones do you think of? The Rolling Stones? U2? The Who? How about a band called “Anvil?” Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008) is an independent documentary by Sacha Gervasi featuring this band, and may be one…
READ MOREAn Appreciation – La Dolce Vita
There is a moment in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960) that has remained fixed in my mind. It happens a little more than halfway through the film, where the protagonist has a tender scene with his father. This comes after the two of them…
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