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Film Review – Celeste and Jesse Forever
How to move on and grow after a divorce can be a difficult task. For some it can be so hard that they resist changing anything at all. That’s where the two title characters are at the beginning of Celeste and Jesse Forever.
READ MOREFilm Review – The Apparition
What if paranormal events only occurred because we believed they could? What if ghosts could be conjured up simply by imagining them? The Apparition, out today, hints at such a premise in its opening moments, only to then completely dismiss it for the remainder of…
READ MOREFilm Review – Cosmopolis
In the world of literary author Don DeLillo practically everything is metaphor. His stories are filled with symbolic messages and societal commentary. Cosmopolis is perhaps DeLillo’s most distilled novel of societal and economic commentary. It is lean, concise, and full of the kind of technically…
READ MOREFilm Review – Premium Rush
Let’s say I gave you the opportunity to see a thriller directed by David Koepp (Stir of Echoes, Secret Window) that stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the hero and Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road, Take Shelter) as the villain. You’d probably be fairly excited, right? So why…
READ MOREFilm Review – Searching for Sugar Man
In 1971 a musician by the name of Rodriguez released a debut album entitled Cold Fact. At the time of its recording, Rodriguez was considered by many of his peers to be the next big thing. His producers (including Mike Theodore, who is notable for a…
READ MOREFilm Review – Hit & Run
I went into Hit & Run (2012) with the lowest possible expectations, and even then I’m not so sure it met them. This is one of those situations where you kind of wish a movie would either be very good or very bad. At least…
READ MOREFilm Review – A Separation
Family and the issues surrounding what is best for one’s family are dominant themes of life no matter where you are in the world. In Asgar Farhadi’s A Separation, out on DVD yesterday, Nader (Peyman Moadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami) are one of those families,…
READ MOREFilm Review – ParaNorman
I love stop-motion animation. It played a big role in the formation of my movie sensibility growing up, particularly projects like Wallace & Gromit and The Nightmare Before Christmas. There is a sense of it being the rawest form of filmmaking to me, where you…
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