Posts Tagged ‘Charlize Theron’
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 – Gringo
If you have seen the trailers for Gringo, the cast is appealing, and the kidnap caper plot looks entertaining. The use of a marijuana drug in the plot may lead you to think this is a stoner comedy, but that is far from correct. The drug is…
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Film Review – The Fate of the Furious
By now we’ve seen cars do pretty much everything a car can and cannot do on screen. Progressively from street car racing to launching sideways out of a moving train, to falling with parachutes out of skies and landing on four wheels. We have even…
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SXSW Film Review – Atomic Blonde
The trailer for Atomic Blonde released online only two days prior to the world premiere at SXSW. Greeted in the Paramount Theatre by a DJ spinning 80s tunes, it certainly set the tone for the film. Director David Leitch (John Wick) greeted the audience along…
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Film Review – The Huntsman: Winter’s War
In the latest effort of a studio to force feed us an unwanted franchise comes Universal’s The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016). This follow up to 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman shamelessly incorporates pieces of better properties in an attempt to adhere towards the widest…
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Top 15 Films of 2015 – Allen’s Picks
I know what people say: “Lists of anything are dumb. How can you take something as subjective as movies and rank them in order?” Well, that’s kind of the beauty of it: no one list is definitive. If anything, putting out one’s favorite films only reveals…
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Top Female Performances of 2015
Written by Brooke Corso and Sarah Ksiazek To cover a year in which the state of women in Hollywood – both in front of and behind the camera – is increasingly scrutinized, questioned, and restructured, we chose roles across genres and even selected one actress…
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Film Review – Dark Places
Gillian Flynn has had a lot of influence in the book world since her novel Gone Girl was released. And for good reason, it’s a nasty, twisty, fun little thriller. David Fincher – working from Flynn’s script – made a pretty decent movie from the…
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