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Film Review – Breaking In
Panic Room without the panache, James McTeigue‘s home invasion thriller Breaking In lands on the stoop with a thump this coming weekend and I’m here to tell you why this hilariously inept stinker might just be worth a trip to the matinee. Or, at the…
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Film Review – Tully
Toys laying all over the carpet, dishes in the sink, mouths to feed, teacher parent conferences – the life of a parent is not an easy one. In their third collaboration together, director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody touch upon the ups and downs…
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Film Review – The Endless
Say, are you looking for a low-budget mind-bender but spilled orange juice on your Primer DVD, rendering it unplayable? Boy do I have the answer for you. Well..maybe not answers exactly, as directing duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Resolution, Spring) seem more keen on…
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Film Review – Avengers: Infinity War
I’ll fess up right now; most of these Marvel movies are not for me. I generally don’t care about superheroes, but lest you think I know not of what I speak, I worked in a comic book store on and off for 10 years. I’ve…
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Film Review – Super Troopers 2
If you enjoyed the kind of juvenile comedy of Super Troopers (2001), then there’s a good possibility you’ll enjoy the sequel, Super Troopers 2 (2018). Seventeen years after the original, we find the Vermont highway patrolmen Mac (Steve Lemme), Rabbit (Erik Stolhanske), Thorny (Jay Chandrasekhar), Foster…
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Film Review – You Were Never Really Here
Director Lynn Ramsay‘s output is as challenging as it is sporadic. In 16 years, she has only helmed 4 feature films, all relatively (and deceivingly) minor, while all packing one hell of a wallop. I haven’t seen her debut, Morvern Callar, since its release in…
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SXSW Film Review – The Rider
Once in a while, I will go blind into a screening. Sometimes it works wonderfully, and other times, it does not. Having not much to go on except for a photo of a young man and a horse and the title, The Rider, I took…
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Film Review – Submergence
Melodrama, when done well, draws our empathies so effectively that seeing the lives of characters play out is as suspenseful as an action film. Of all the genres in cinema, melodrama – often dealing with the ups and downs of romance – is so closely…
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