Crime
Film Review – Lawless
Somewhere inside of John Hillcoat’s Lawless (2012) is a good movie, maybe even a great one. The ingredients are there: good acting, fine direction, impressive production values – everything you could ask for. Nick Cave wrote the screenplay and helped compose the music, and the…
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Film Review – Killer Joe
Killer Joe (2012) is a movie—let’s start there. Now, is it a good one? That depends on who you ask. To some, it may be one of the worst films of the year, and to others, one of the best. Even now, as I write…
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Film Review – Easy Money
Sweden has really been supplying some taught and exciting thrillers as of late. The newest example is the exciting Easy Money. Joel Kinnaman, known best in the U.S. for his lead role on AMC’s The Killing, stars as J.W. He’s a smart, slightly shy genius…
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Film Review – The Dark Knight Rises
It is with both excitement and reluctance that we reach the end of the road on Christopher Nolan’s Batman universe. Without question, The Dark Knight Rises has been my most anticipated film of the year…but, at the same time, I knew this was the end…
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SIFF Film Review – Elena
In the new Russian film Elena, which premiered locally at the Seattle International Film Festival, Nadezhda Markina stars as the title character. In her early 60s, she is a dutiful wife to her rather cold and curmudgeonly older husband, Vladimir (played by Andrey Smirnov). Each…
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Film Review – Polisse
The new film Polisse is not a masterpiece, but the dedication to this story from the director and screenwriter, Maïwenn, makes for an interesting look at the work of the CPU (Child Protective Unit). Maïwenn places us right in the middle of these cops’ lives,…
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Film Review – God Bless America
I don’t think anyone would argue with the assessment that there are a lot of problems with our culture these days. The obsession with celebrity and entitlement have become incredibly pervasive in our culture with the rise of reality TV. Our fallout of this cultural…
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