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Film Review – Cinderella
At first glance, one may think that Kenneth Branagh directing the latest version of Cinderella (2015) would be something of a headscratcher. In hindsight, he was the perfect choice to handle this material. Trained by Shakespearean theater, Branagh has been endowed with the type of…
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Film Review – Unfinished Business
Honestly, these are the hardest kind of reviews to write. If you end up seeing a really great movie, you usually have many thoughts about it that come gushing forth and you find yourself eager to prosthelytize to everyone how wonderful it is. Also, if…
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Film Review – Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken puts us into the paranoid mind set of the kidnappers in this tense true crime drama. Knowing nothing about the case of the beer moguls abduction before seeing the film I did have a lot of assumptions about what would happen that did…
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Film Review – Chappie
If one thing is for certain, Neill Blomkamp is a director with big ideas. Early into his career and we are now starting to see the themes and style that make up his storytelling. The distinct clarity in the world he presents earned him an…
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Film Review – Salad Days: The Birth of Punk in the Nation’s Capital
It’s for good reason that there is still a lot of interest and respect for the highly influential DC punk rock scene and for Dischord Records, the label in which many of its bands belonged. While many of the groups and record labels associated with…
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Film Review – A Fuller Life
Not everybody lives a life with so much activity that it could make an epic story. From crime-beat reporter to World War II soldier to novelist and filmmaker, the aptly titled A Fuller Life tells the epic story of Samuel Fuller, reporter, writer, producer and…
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Film Review – Timbuktu
Oscar-nominated Timbuktu is centered on the town of the same name in Mali. It does not focus on a particular story, but an event that turns the small, diverse community upside down. Islamic Jihadists have taken over the area, implementing their rules and their form…
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Film Review – Focus
I’ve always wondered about master criminals: if they’re so smart and meticulous – studying their jobs to the finest detail and executing with pinpoint precision – why are they criminals to begin with? If these people are so talented at what they do, couldn’t they…
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