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Film Review – Roar
Lions and tigers and… cheetahs and cougars and panthers and an elephant, oh my. Giant cats of the world, while adorable, are typically regarded as wild, dangerous animals and are treated as such. Unless you’re Noel Marshall, Tippi Hedren, daughter Melanie Griffith, or one of…
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Film Review – A Fuller Life
Not everybody lives a life with so much activity that it could make an epic story. From crime-beat reporter to World War II soldier to novelist and filmmaker, the aptly titled A Fuller Life tells the epic story of Samuel Fuller, reporter, writer, producer and…
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Can You Dig It?: The Culture and Importance of Blaxploitation Films
“Am I Black enough for you?” Reverend Deke O’Mailey shouts to a crowd in Harlem. “Are you Black enough to hear me?” he asks back. It’s a moniker that becomes a self referential joke throughout the Blaxploitation movie Cotton Comes to Harlem, as other characters…
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Film Review – A Most Violent Year
In the perception of society, crime equals corruption. Synonymous with each other to the point of perceived mutual exclusivity, it begs the question of whether one can commit crime without being corrupt. With a clean-cut demeanor, Abel Morales, played with a subtle intensity by Oscar…
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Film Review – Inherent Vice
And so it comes to pass that with hippies, drugs and secret societies wrapped in conspiracies of world madness, writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson has crafted one of the wildest and most important neo-noir films of the new millenia.
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Film Review – Young Ones
They shoot horses don’t they? That statement is not really so much a question, as it is a declaration of fate. The idea being, if a horse breaks its leg, it can’t be healed and is thus better to put the animal out its misery.…
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Film Review – Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
It’s supposed to be a hard punch. The film takes a swing at you and it hurts. You pick your jaw up and the adrenaline running through you is fun so you ask for some more. Instead, the swing comes limp, like John Hartigan (Bruce…
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Film Review – Guardians of the Galaxy
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away roguish heroes taught us that being an outlaw and saving the day didn’t have to be mutually exclusive. With a confident, yet sly smile, a person could go between the halves of the world, the…
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