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Film Review – Carol
When two women meet and fall in love in New York in the late 1940s, societal deviance becomes a search for safety in director Todd Hayne‘s (Safe, Mildred Pierce) latest movie Carol. Based on the novel The Price of Salt and starring Cate Blanchett and…
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Film Review – Concussion
Let me tell you something: I’m a big sports fan. I grew up playing basketball – many a night after school you could find me on the playground participating in pickup games. I’m a huge football nut as well. When I’m not delving into movies,…
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Film Review – The Hateful Eight
Okay Tarantino fans, here’s my review of The Hateful Eight in a nutshell: If you love Quentin Tarantino, you will probably enjoy this film. If you think his movies are crap, there is nothing here that will change your mind. If you, like me, have…
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Film Review – The Big Short
In addition to being an ardent film lover, I really enjoy financial scandals. (Reading about them, not committing them.) I have an MBA from the University of Washington, and most of our accounting class time was spent talking about people misbehaving with numbers. I graduated…
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Film Review – Star Wars: The Force Awakens
With Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), director J.J. Abrams had the near impossible task of continuing the saga started by George Lucas. Audiences were burned by prequels and special editions, and the pressure of kick starting the franchise back to life must have been…
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Film Review – The Danish Girl
Soon after Eddie Redmayne picked up a Best Actor Oscar for The Theory of Everything, an image of Redmayne dressed up as a woman was shared online. It was for his next project, The Danish Girl, and it pretty much became known then that this…
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Film Review – Sisters
The new Tina Fey/Amy Poehler joint Sisters accomplishes the number one thing that is required of a comedy. It is funny. Damn funny. I mean full on hard belly laugh funny. We can discuss the artistic merits of film and the depth of character or…
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Film Review – Youth
Italian Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) wrote and directed Youth, a film that examines growing old for a couple of characters, both of which are famous. Fred Ballinger (Michael Caine) is a retired, well-known composer. Mick Boyle (Harvey Keitel) is a famous film writer and director.…
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