Posts Tagged ‘Adam Driver’
Film Review – Marriage Story
Director and screenwriter Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story is a film that revolves around the dissolution of a marriage, not the story of it. Divorce is, unfortunately, commonplace in our modern society, but that does not mean that it is a not sad occurrence, one that…
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Film Review – The Report
The Report is an important, based on real events, drama that tells the story of corruption and falsehoods at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the aftermath of the events of 9/11. Americans will be familiar with the photos and stories of mistreatment and torture of…
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Top 15 Films of 2018 – Allen’s Picks
The beauty of cinema is how it works as a reflection of our society – our hopes, our fears, and our desires. Films are a timestamp of who were, who we are, and what we could possibly be. A thousand years from now, people can…
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Film Review – BlacKkKlansman
The great revelation of Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman (2018) is how imagery can be used as powerful motivators, cultivating the way people feel and act. Throughout his entire career, Lee has been deeply concerned with racism in our society and how it has survived and evolved…
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Film Review – Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Ever since A New Hope was released in 1977, every Star Wars film followed the same basic formula: operatic space battles between good and evil, with a central character being pulled in both directions, whose final choice could decide the fate of all. From the…
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Film Review – Logan Lucky
No one in the industry seemed to believe Steven Soderbergh‘s lofty retirement announcement in 2013, especially considering that his producing and television credits continued to mount. For his first feature directorial effort since the fantastic Liberace biopic Behind The Candelabra, Soderbergh jumps stealthily back to…
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Film Review – Paterson (Second Take)
He wakes up naturally every morning, to what his wife calls his magic watch, at approximately a quarter after six a.m. He caresses his wife and listens to her tell him of a dream she had the night before, they had twins. Before leaving the…
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Film Review – Paterson
The daily life of a bus driver in New Jersey and his wife is the focus of Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson. The film is a bit of a critics’ darling, receiving many accolades. If you watch the film’s trailer, it does not come off as anything…
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