Posts Tagged ‘Jon Bernthal’
Film Review – Wind River (Second Take)
Wind River is a film that I chose to not watch the trailer for before seeing the film. I went into it blind, other than hearing a fellow audience member saying it was a crime thriller before it started. The Rotten Tomatoes score was already…
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SXSW Film Review – Baby Driver
Other than the cast, it being an Edgar Wright film, and a photo, not much had been known about Baby Driver prior to its world premiere at SXSW. It is kind of a unique thing to be at an official world premiere of any film,…
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Film Analysis – Land of Wolves (2015)
When I was seventeen, I traveled to Mazatlan, Mexico, for spring break in March of 1998. This wasn’t a quick plane ride with two hundred hormonal college kids to a weeklong boozefest on the beach; rather, I went with a friend and her boyfriend, two…
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Film Review – Sicario
Somewhere between a pulsating, rhythmic soundtrack and Roger Deakins‘ awe-inducing cinematography, there’s an excitement that exists in the idea of something otherly evil that lurks just outside the frame of our view. Since Vietnam, the drug trade has given American audiences a villain of foreign…
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SIFF Film Review – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Intro: Normally when I write a review, I try to write a nice essay that is cohesive and flows nicely from one subject to another. (You can be the judge on whether I’ve ever successfully followed through on that.) But I’ve been pondering for two…
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SIFF Interview – Alfonso Gomez-Rejon – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Spencer interviews director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon from the dramedy Me and Earl and the Dying Girl at SIFF 2015.
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Emerald City ComiCon 2012 – Revenge of the Nerd
I’ve only been to Seattle’s Emerald City ComiCon (ECCC) a few times, but from my point of view, this was clearly the biggest that I’ve seen so far. A convention that celebrates comic books, video games, sci-fi film and television, and just about everything within…
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