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Film Review: Part 2 – The Girl Who Played With Fire
There are many questions that surround Lisbeth Salander. She has an enormous tattoo of a dragon on her back, but we don’t know how she got it or why. She has sex with her girlfriend, but it’s not so much an expression of love but…
READ MOREFilm Review: Part 1 – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
In regard to world cinema, 2010 should go down as the year of Lisbeth Salander. Here is one of the more uniquely fascinating characters of recent years, she is an enigma that invites us to look at her a little closer, but pushes us away…
READ MOREFilm Review – Love & Other Drugs
Love & Other Drugs (2010) is a screwball comedy, or a romantic comedy, or a serious melodrama, or a satire of the pharmaceutical trade. Are you starting to catch my drift? In some ways, the film works on all these levels, but in others, it…
READ MOREFilm Review – Ninja Death
Ninja Death – I love old traditional kung fu films. It reminds me of my youth when I watched hours and hours of Kung Fu Theater. And since I was a hormonally-riddled teen when this was airing, I secretly hoped to see a scantily clad…
READ MOREIndie Film Review – Marwencol
In April of 2000, at age 38, Mark Hogencamp was attacked outside of a bar by five young men, and beaten so severely that he spent nine days in a coma and another month in the hospital after waking up. He had brain damage to…
READ MOREFilm Review – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
Our filmmakers were in a difficult spot going into this awkwardly-not-final Harry Potter film. Even acknowledging that in this franchise, each film is truly only a piece of the whole, this last chapter of our story in particular seems ill-suited to further fracturing. The seventh…
READ MOREFilm Review – 127 Hours
As a bass line throbs under a techno beat, quick cuts, bright colors, and extravagant camera angles quickly and immediately introduce us to Aron Ralston, played by James Franco. In a dash around his apartment he packs supplies for an outdoor adventure, camping trip. In…
READ MOREFilm Review – Morning Glory
Sometimes it’s nice to see a film that provides the warm glow that a good romantic comedy can, but without romance actually being the focus. Morning Glory, from director Roger Michell, serves up that feeling in a breezy sort of fast motion, acted out by…
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