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What We’re Watching – 8/10/11
King of Marvin Gardens Around Christmas time last year, I picked up a copy of the Criterion Collection’s box set “America Lost and Found: The BBS Story.” It wasn’t until just a couple weeks ago that I finally sat down and watched King of Marvin…
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What We’re Watching 7/13/11
Many more intelligent people than I have already summarized life as a series of dueling, chaotic and organized events. John Lennon said, life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans. Roberto Begnini’s character Bob, in Jim Jarmusch’s 1985 film Down by Law, makes…
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Film Review – Fast Five
In 2001, the original The Fast and The Furious film started a storyline involving an undercover cop and an ex-con and the unlikely friendship they formed. It also left the storyline open until 2009’s Fast and Furious reunited undercover-cop-turned-FBI-agent Brian O’Connor (Paul Walker) with the…
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Interview – Tom McCarthy – Win Win
SPOILER WARNING: The following interview contains conversations about things in the film “Win Win” that may be considered spoilers. If you would rather see the film first, simply bookmark this page and come back to it after. Thank you. With his new film Win Win…
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Interview – Alex Shaffer – Win Win
SPOILER WARNING: The following interview contains conversations about things in the film “Win Win” that may be considered spoilers. If you would rather see the film first, simply bookmark this page and come back to it after. Thank you. In the new film Win Win,…
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Film Review – Win Win
There’s something unusual lurking at the heart of director/writer Tom McCarthy’s latest film, Win Win. But then, that’s the case with all of McCarthy’s films; they’re not exactly what you expect, or what they lead you to believe they are. His first film, The Station…
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Action Junkie – Trouble Man, and the trouble with men.
“His friends call him Mr. T. His enemies call for mercy!” In the summer of 1971, the seminal action film Shaft smoothed its way onto the silver screen and exploded at the box office. Made for a budget of one and a quarter million dollars,…
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Film Review – Battle: Los Angeles
Somewhere in Hollywood, on some producer’s desk, sits the ultimate playbook of movies. Not unlike that of a football team, this movie playbook consists of every conceivable plan of action that is needed, every feasible film genre known to Hollywood, and the step-by-step guides on…
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