Posts Tagged ‘Elizabeth Banks’
SXSW Film Review – Love & Mercy
Love & Mercy tells the story of Brian Wilson, a member of The Beach Boys and the creative genius behind their hits. The film jumps from one point in Brian Wilson’s life in the 1960s (played by Paul Dano) to Wilson in the 1980s (played by…
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Film Review – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Katniss Everdeen has gone through an interesting journey so far in the Hunger Games saga. Strangely, she has often been the victim of circumstance – constantly trying to adjust as things swirl further out of her control. In Catching Fire (2013) she entered the games…
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Film Review – The Lego Movie
The Lego Movie (2014) is more infectious than it probably has the right to be. The idea is absurd: an entire universe made up of those little building blocks we used to play with as children, and inhabited by yellow characters with funny shaped hands.…
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Film Review – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games was a huge box office success, the only young adult novel adaptation since Twilight to achieve that title. I read the trilogy by Suzanne Collins before seeing the film, and I really enjoyed it. Like many others, I was excited to see…
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Seth Rogen – Video Podcast #263
In honor of the release of This Is The End, Spencer and Greg discuss Seth Rogen.
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CinemaCon Days 3&4 Recap
If screenings of clips from Star Trek Into Darkness and Fast & Furious 6 weren’t cool enough, we still had two days worth of studio presentations (Disney, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Lionsgate) at CinemaCon 2013. Generally the presentations went two ways: either the presenters would briefly mention a…
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SIFF Film Review – People Like Us
The idea of something being “based on a true story” is one of the biggest misnomers in film. The loose definition of the word “based” would make Bill Clinton proud. It is hard to know when you’re being misled, so when you get the opportunity…
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What We’re Watching – 2/1/2012
In Name Only (1939) Wealthy businessman Alec Walker (Cary Grant) is unhappily married to Maida (Kay Francis), a schemer who married him for money, not love. He learned of her deceit shortly after they were married, but she has his parents and society fooled into…
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