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Film Review – The Rover
Amidst the sun drenched landscape, between ringing shots of gunfire and desperate attempts for survival, a man sits in a small room lined with cages full of dogs. His name is Eric (Guy Pearce). He sits staring at the cages. Nothing is said, and no…
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Film Review – Cold in July
A couple is awoken one night to the sound of an intruder. The husband grabs a gun and goes to check out the noise while telling his wife to stay put. In a moment sparked by a startling sound and not any aggression, a bullet…
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Film Review – Blue Ruin
Actions have consequences. It’s hyperbole that follows the traits of tales of revenge. Action is what sets the revenge in motion, which in turn has its own set of consequences. If movies progress like ideas and tales of revenge began as yarns spun for entertainment…
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Film Review – Jodorowsky’s Dune
Early into Jodorowsky’s Dune we are introduced to a book. The size of this book is impressive, and what it holds might even be more so. Behind the concept art for a spaceship, which adorns the cover, is the untold version of a movie that…
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Film Review – Sabotage
There must be a certain kind of freedom involved with embracing offensive content like it’s a sandbox to be played in. Some movies seem to firmly place themselves in the realm of controversy and depravity without even trying. Michael Bay’s movies effortless walk in the…
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Film Review – Enemy
There’s a moment early on when history teacher Adam Bell (Jake Gyllenhaal) is watching a movie in his apartment alone. His face is draped in apathy. Having rented the movie at the suggestion of a coworker, Adam seems to exude really little interest beyond it…
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Film Review – The Grand Budapest Hotel
In the connection between history and understanding is memory. Stories are predicated on memory between time and place. It is in this space where interpretation comes from. Information about somewhere and some-when informs our imagination, which in turn creates a memory of something we were…
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SXSW Film Review – Thank You A Lot
Through mass media like television and movies, I’ve always viewed the music industry as two different worlds. There’s the high-profile world of professional musicians, the kind that wind up on the covers of magazines, want only brown M&Ms and have roadies pick groupies out of…
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