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Film Review – Tully
Toys laying all over the carpet, dishes in the sink, mouths to feed, teacher parent conferences – the life of a parent is not an easy one. In their third collaboration together, director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody touch upon the ups and downs…
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Film Review – Super Troopers 2
If you enjoyed the kind of juvenile comedy of Super Troopers (2001), then there’s a good possibility you’ll enjoy the sequel, Super Troopers 2 (2018). Seventeen years after the original, we find the Vermont highway patrolmen Mac (Steve Lemme), Rabbit (Erik Stolhanske), Thorny (Jay Chandrasekhar), Foster…
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Film Review – Rampage
Rampage (2018) is the kind of movie phrases like “mindless entertainment” were invented to describe. It serves no other purpose than to provide audiences with escapism for two hours. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that. Some of the best movies ever made were created to…
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Film Review – Blockers
Blockers (2018) is the kind of sex comedy that does what many good sex comedies do. It’s starts off with a premise that adheres to lowbrow antics – high school kids discovering their blossoming sexuality – and then handles it in a mature, insightful manner.…
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An Appreciation – My Fair Lady
Surface level readings of My Fair Lady (1964) would focus on the supposed sexist dynamics. At the turn of the 20th century, an English phonetics professor (Rex Harrison) makes a bet with a colleague that his expertise could transform a lowly flower girl with a…
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Film Review – Ready Player One
The road that brought Ready Player One (2018) to the big screen was a circular one. We start with Steven Spielberg, the most successful director in cinema history. His work, from Jaws (1975), E.T. (1982), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), and Jurassic Park (1994)…
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Film Review – Isle of Dogs
Wes Anderson has one of the most unique visual styles of any filmmaker. His compositions are almost always perfectly symmetrical. The camera is often placed at eye level, with his subjects either facing straight toward us, or perpendicular to the right or left. His sets…
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SXSW Film Review – The World Before Your Feet
When I visited New York City, it was a definite culture shock. I was just a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State. To me, Seattle was considered a “big city.” Nothing could have prepared me for the magnitude that was “The…
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