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Film Review – Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) doesn’t just take what we know of Santa Claus and flips him on his head, it also throws him in the blender, breaks him down, builds him back up, gives him fangs and a mean attitude. Written and directed…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Tourist
Man, beautiful people get to have all the fun, especially if they are wealthy beautiful people. They get to wear the best looking clothes, they get to go to the most beautiful places on earth, stay at the trendiest hotels, and eat the best kind…
READ MOREFilm Review: Part 3 – The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest (2010) picks up literally where Fire leaves off. It completes the story of one of the most interesting and endearing characters of recent film memory. There isn’t a person that comes to mind that is like Lisbeth Salander…
READ MOREFilm 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…
READ MOREFilm Review: Part 1 – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
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…
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