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Film Review – Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Tom Cruise is back once again as super agent Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), the fourth installment in the highly popular series. This time around, the film is directed by Brad Bird, the man who brought us some of the best…
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An Appreciation – On the Waterfront
“…I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am” Perhaps no other name in film acting is equated to that of an icon quite like Marlon Brando. He has been referenced and pointed to countless times, and his practice of the…
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An Appreciation – Black Narcissus
At first glance, the premise of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s film Black Narcissus (1947) was one that I was not entirely excited to see. The story about a group of nuns sent out to the high hilltops of the Himalayan Mountains to establish a…
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What We’re Watching – 11/16/2011
I’ve been trying to expand my horizons a bit more with the latest couple of titles that I’ve been seeing. There’s so much great work from everywhere that it always feels like I’m catching up to everyone else. I made it a point to see…
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Film Review – Jack and Jill
You’ve got to be kidding. While there’s still a little more than a month and a half left in the year, and a good handful of movies left to be released, I’m going to go out there and say with confidence that Jack and Jill,…
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An Appreciation – L’Atalante
There are good filmmakers, there are great filmmakers, and then there’s Jean Vigo. In the history of great directors that have come and gone, Jean Vigo’s name stands in a class all its own. Very few directors have made such an impression on me with…
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Film Review – Tower Heist
Tower Heist (2011), the latest action/comedy film directed by the infamous Brett Ratner, aims to be nothing more than a straight down the line form of popcorn entertainment. On that basic level alone, the film accomplishes what it sets out to do. There isn’t much…
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Horror Double Feature – Eyes Without a Face & Kuroneko
For my last double horror feature recommendation of the month, I decided to pick two films that I have only recently seen but have fallen in love with almost immediately. Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face (1960) and Kaneto Shindo’s Kuroneko (1968) are two movies…
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