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Film 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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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…
READ MOREFilm Review – Paranormal Activity 2
Last year, a small, shoestring budgeted horror film took the world by storm and became arguably the most profitable movie ever made. Paranormal Activity (2007) proves that you can make an intense, effective, and suspenseful movie without the need for gore or brutality. The film…
READ MOREFilm Review – Conviction
The title of director Tony Goldwyn’s Conviction (2010) really works on two different fronts. The first about the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of a man who fit the mold of a brutal killer, but swears it wasn’t him. It also works as the representation of…
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