Posts Tagged ‘Riz Ahmed’
Film Review – Nightcrawler
Los Angeles: a city of dreams and nightmares. Neon lights cut through deep dark shadows as a menacing score keeps us on edge. This is a city where anything can happen, and where people will do anything to get what they want. Dan Gilroy, whose…
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DVD Rundown 8-27-2013 – Video Podcast #274
Spencer and Greg give their DVD rundown for August 27th, 2013. In this episode they discuss The Great Gatsby, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Pain & Gain and The Walking Dead.
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Film Review – The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Among the many noteworthy filmmakers to rise out of the late ’80s/early ’90s, one of the more underappreciated is Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala, Monsoon Wedding). While she never achieved the fame of some of her contemporaries like Quentin Tarantino or Richard Linklater, she has consistently…
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Film Review – Trishna
Taken from the classic book Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, by Thomas Hardy, Michael Winterbottom’s Trishna (2011) tries to put a modern spin on this story, but seems to have gotten it mixed up in the translation. Trishna (Freida Pinto) is…
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