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An Analysis – A Closer Look Into Enemy

July 3rd, 2014 | POSTED BY Allen Almachar

***Warning: the following contains massive spoilers*** – Chaos is order yet undeciphered – When I first walked out of Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy (2013), I was over come with different emotions: befuddlement, confusion, and most all fascination. I knew I had witnessed something special, a tightly…

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SIFF Double Feature – Burkholder and Another

May 16th, 2014 | POSTED BY Adelaide Blair

Burkholder: Teddy (Bob Burkholder) has been renting a room from Barry (Britt Crosley) for the past 15 years, and now that he is approaching 90, he wants to continue living his life to the fullest. He just doesn’t have much time left to mess around.…

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An Appreciation – The Wizard of Oz

April 8th, 2014 | POSTED BY Allen Almachar

Unlike most people, I did not see The Wizard of Oz (1939) as a child. In fact, I didn’t see it in its entirety until I was nearing young adulthood. But even before then, I felt like there was already a familiarity. This benchmark of…

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Netflix Recommendations – Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something True (1)

March 3rd, 2014 | POSTED BY Cassidy Robinson

I have conceded to the fact that Netflix and the other online streaming services are the future. Personally, I grew up going to video stores, and when I grew all the way up I worked at one for over four years. But with the recent…

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2014 Oscar Predictions – Ben’s Picks

March 2nd, 2014 | POSTED BY Benjamin Rendall

It’s Oscar time again and it has been a roller coaster of a year with no clear front-runner for best picture and several of the categories ripe for potential upsets. While not as strong a line up of films as last year, there are still…

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Top 10 2013 – Adelaide’s List

February 25th, 2014 | POSTED BY Adelaide Blair

I don’t watch a lot of new films because I am middle-aged and grumpy, and I want to watch things when I want to watch them, not when they are in the theaters. So every year my “best of” list is about what I watched…

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An Appreciation – Beauty and the Beast

December 26th, 2013 | POSTED BY Allen Almachar

One of the best sequences in Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast, 1946) comes when Belle (Josette Day) first enters the castle of the mysterious Beast (Jean Marais). Done completely in slow motion, we see her come into the main…

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Double Feature Showdown – Battle Royale vs. The Hunger Games

December 23rd, 2013 | POSTED BY Adelaide Blair

Last year when The Hunger Games came out, all I heard was Battle Royale this, Battle Royale that. Everybody kept talking about how similar the plots were between the two, but nobody really gave specifics, other than “kids forced to kill each other off until…

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