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Film Review – Blair Witch
Chances are you’ve fallen into one of two camps when it comes to 1999’s record-shattering indie The Blair Witch Project: you’re either appreciative of its (at the time) gonzo, POV approach and guerrilla marketing strategy or you’re the other 80 percent of the planet. Personally,…
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Film Review – Sully
On January 15th, 2009, U.S. Airways Flight 1549 took off from LaGuardia Airport in New York toward Charlotte, North Carolina. Soon after take off, the plane ran into a flock of birds, a number of which struck and disabled both engines. The captain of the…
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Film Review – Don’t Think Twice
On the surface, Don’t Think Twice is a film about a troupe of improv players called The Commune and their struggles to not only survive but thrive in New York City. It would have been a great film right there, set in the back rooms…
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Film Review – The Light Between Oceans
Great acting can carry a story. And you can’t get a better cast of contemporary actors than those featured in the new drama The Light Between Oceans. While the basics of the plot may at first blush seem overdone, a top notch troupe of performers…
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Film Review – The 9th Life of Louis Drax
One of the best things about film writing is discovery. Every once in awhile, I watch a film with little or no information beforehand and find something amazing/delightful/heartbreaking/wonderful up on the screen. The worst thing about writing about film is when you go to a…
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Film Review – Morgan
Morgan makes no illusions as to what it is. The initial teaser trailer made it look original, intriguing, and it had an air of mystery. Cue the following trailers, and the target audience may have already figured the whole film out prior to minute one.
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Film Review – Disorder
Matthias Schoenaerts enters the realm of legitimate international star in Alice Winocour’s Disorder (2015). Schoenaerts has been a working actor for years now, but it’s with this performance – as a French soldier suffering from a severe case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – that…
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Film Review – The Sea of Trees
Aokigahara is a heavily dense forest located at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan. Nicknamed “Sea of Trees” or “Suicide Forest,” this area has developed a reputation as a popular site for individuals to attempt suicide. The suicide rate has grown so much that…
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