Posts Tagged ‘Jean-Marc Vallée’
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 – Wild
Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) is preparing to go on a 1,100-mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail in Wild. We are not told why, but sense that this is something she thinks she needs to do even though she cannot say why. As she starts out, she…
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Film Review – Dallas Buyers Club (Second Take)
Dallas Buyers Club benefited publicity-wise from pre-filming photos of Matthew McConaughey wasting away as he lost weight to play Ron Woodruff, the main character. Basically, everyone knows by this point that this is that film where McConaughey is skinny. Why did he lose the weight?…
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Film Review – Dallas Buyers Club
There is a formula for the disease-of-the-week movies I used to watch back in the ’90s: Flawed hero/heroine (usually heroine because this movie genre is a staple of the Lifetime channel) discovers he or she has contracted a terminal illness and has a short time…
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