Posts Tagged ‘Fox Searchlight Pictures’
Film Review – Patti Cake$
Writer/director Geremy Jasper’s Patti Cake$ (2017) has all the trappings of an underdog story. The hip-hop music will call to mind 8 Mile (2002) or Hustle & Flow (2005). As our protagonist delves into her fantasies of glamour and fame, we’re reminded of similar dream…
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SIFF Interview – Geremy Jasper – Patti Cake$
Spencer interviews writer/director Geremy Jasper from the dramedy Patti Cake$ at SIFF 2017.
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Film Review – Wilson
I’ve seen Ghost World roughly a dozen times and Art School Confidential exactly once. That’s not meant as condemnation against the latter, necessarily, although I think it says something that I’ve not ever had the inclination to re-investigate.
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Film Review – A United Kingdom
Seretse Khama was born into one of the royal families of the then British Protectorate of Bechuanaland (now known as Botswana). Although observed as a king, Khama fought for a democratic state free of British rule. He would go on to accomplish just that, and…
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Film Review – Jackie
Jackie tells the story of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (Jackie) following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK). The film begins in 1963, one week after Jackie (Natalie Portman) and her children move out of the White House. A journalist (Billy Crudup) shows up…
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SXSW Film Review – Demolition
Let’s just start with this. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of this film other than it starts with a “D.” Is it Desolation, Destruction, or Devastation? No, it is actually Demolition, but I have to keep checking on the name…
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Film Review – Youth
Italian Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) wrote and directed Youth, a film that examines growing old for a couple of characters, both of which are famous. Fred Ballinger (Michael Caine) is a retired, well-known composer. Mick Boyle (Harvey Keitel) is a famous film writer and director.…
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Film Review – Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a film about beginnings and endings within a young Irish immigrant’s life, and her struggle to experience it all, to be in and of everything she does rather than let things happen or follow the accepted order of events for a woman of…
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