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Film Review – Steve Jobs
It’s strange to see recent history of which you have actual concious memory portrayed on screen. Boyhood had that effect, where you were struck with nostalgia for a mere 5 years ago. And that effect does happen in the new film Steve Jobs. Pretty much…
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Film Review – Bridge of Spies
During a year full of some of the best big-budget spectacle movies that has come along in while, Steven Spielberg decides to deliver one of the year’s more subdued, big-budget dramas. Set against the Cold War of the early 60s, Bridge of Spies tells the…
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Film Review – Freeheld
Freeheld (2015) is based on the true story of Laurel Hester and Stacie Andree, played by Julianne Moore and Ellen Page respectively. A documentary short of the same name in 2007 won the Academy Award. The film deals with a case of equality in Ocean…
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Film Review – 99 Homes
99 Homes deals with the fallout of the home mortgage crisis that resulted in people losing their homes because they could not afford their ballooning payments. Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) could no longer afford to pay his mortgage. His family home that he shared with…
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Film Review – Yakuza Apocalypse
Normally when I review a film, it’s pretty easy to give a simple, no-spoiler synopsis of the plot. Most movies make some kind of sense, and if weird things happen, they are pretty much explainable within the context of the story. Not so much with…
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Film Review – A Brilliant Young Mind
A Brilliant Young Mind is an overly sentimental film that wants us to feel for its characters but uses shortcuts and time jumps instead of interactions to give them any kind of connection. To begin with we have a pretty traditional narrative starting point with Nathan (Asa Butterfield), a kid genius…
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Film Review – Golden Shoes
Generic is too kind a term for Golden Shoes. This predictable children’s film throws every stock character and overdone circumstance at the screen in some bizarre attempt to be inspiring. Christian (Christian Koza), a young boy, dreams of being a great soccer player because, beyond his love…
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Film Review – Finders Keepers
Who would have thought the story of two men fighting over ownership of an amputated leg found in a smoker grill in North Carolina would attain a near-Steinbeck level of self-destruction and resurrection? At first glance, Finders Keepers is a parody of two hicks from…
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