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Film Review – In A Valley of Violence
Silent lone gunman wandering the plains with only his horse and dog as company. An encounter with a drunken priest. Running afoul of the Marshall in a small frontier town. Gunfights and revenge. All of the cliches are present in the new Western In A Valley…
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Film Review – Inferno
“If Dante’s Inferno was less like poetry and more like prophecy” As someone who hasn’t read the book Inferno was based on, I would like to say that this film makes it on my list of top 10 movies to watch this fall. I enjoy…
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Film Review – Certain Women
Certain Women is a feature film from director Kelly Reichardt (Meek’s Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy) and her third collaboration with Michelle Williams. Based on short stories by Maile Meloy and a script by Reichardt, Certain Women follows three women, all living in Montana. Their lives…
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Film Review – The Handmaiden
My favorite Chan-wook Park film is Stoker partly because it is inspired by Shadow of a Doubt – my best-loved Alfred Hitchcock movie. He takes the two central characters and asks what would happen if they did in fact have similar natures. He’s not remaking…
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Blu-Ray Review – The Executioner
It is hard to review the work for a company like Criterion, without just handing out universal praise. Their movie releases tend to be so far past most of the industry the only real way you can fairly compare them is against themselves, and it is…
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Film Review – Ouija: Origin of Evil
Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) is set up as a prequel to Ouija (2014). Instead of taking place in the present day we travel back to the 1960s, although the house featured is the same one from the first film. Why a prequel instead of…
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Film Review – American Pastoral
Pulitzer prize-winning novel, American Pastoral, by Philip Roth became the film adaptation that Ewan McGregor chose as his directorial debut.
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Film Review – Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Here we go again…another round with that other Tom Cruise action franchise, Jack Reacher. Cruise returns once again in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back as the titular character…a former military police officer who now travels across the country solving…military crimes. Naturally he felt too restricted by…
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