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Film Review – 45 Years
If you are into quiet, subtle, brilliant film acting, you will be into the new film 45 Years. Thoughtful adult cinema about characters over a certain age is increasingly rare anymore. And especially allowing actors in their advanced years star in a film while giving…
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Film Review – Mojave
An angry white man of privilege decides to go the desert to work out some issues when he sparks a cat and mouse rivalry with a drifter in writer, director William Monahan’s Mojave. Best known for his screenplay for The Departed (2006), previously wrote and…
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Film Review – The 5th Wave
This movie doesn’t deserve a completed review. In what’s supposed to be one of the key emotional scenes of The 5th Wave (2016), a character walks up to another who is thoughtfully looking into the sky. “What are you looking at?” they ask. “The stars,”…
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Film Review – Son of Saul
Sometimes I like to go into a film screening blind, meaning I do not know much of anything about it. It works sometimes, and I am pleasantly surprised. On the other hand, it ends up being an experience I could have prepared myself for better.…
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Film Review – Ip Man 3
I want to be able to tell you that Ip Man 3 (2015) is a fantastic martial arts film, but then I also want to be truthful. Ip Man (2008) was something of a surprise, showcasing the attributes of actor Donnie Yen while displaying a…
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Film Review – Prescription Thugs
Prescription Thugs has its heart in the right place but suffers from an unwieldy narrative that moves from the personal to larger implications of prescription drug abuse while never making its case compelling. First this documentary acts as a sequel of sorts for director Chris Bell‘s Bigger…
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Film Review – Anomalisa
Idiosyncratic. That is the word that leaps to mind. It might seem like a cop out as a description. It feels a bit like calling something “Unique” when you don’t know what to make of something. But it is the first word that leaps to…
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Film Review – 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
“This is a true story,” are the words that open director Michael Bay‘s latest phantasmagoria of gorgeous violence and shoddy politics. It’s a not very subtle way to start a not very subtle film that centers on a hot button topic that’s held some domination…
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