Posts Tagged ‘Sarah Paulson’
Film Review – Glass
M. Night Shyamalan is a filmmaker who exists in two different extremes. On one hand, he can set up interesting premises that draw us in with their mysterious, suspenseful, and horrific elements. On the other, the payoffs to these stories have been hit or miss…
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Film Review – Ocean’s 8
The biggest flaw of Ocean’s 8 (2018) is the title. Not only is it numerically confused as a sequel to the Ocean’s trilogy (consisting of Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, and Ocean’s Thirteen), but it also has to carry the burden of being yet another spin off of…
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Film Review – Carol
When two women meet and fall in love in New York in the late 1940s, societal deviance becomes a search for safety in director Todd Hayne‘s (Safe, Mildred Pierce) latest movie Carol. Based on the novel The Price of Salt and starring Cate Blanchett and…
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Film Review – Mud
I don’t know if Matthew McConaughey’s agent took an especially artistic blow to the head or if one too many TBS airings of Failure To Launch set him down this new path, but if you’re reading this, sir, I’d like to buy you a Coke.…
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Top 10 of 2011 – Allen’s Picks
With 2011 officially in the books, it’s time once again to look back and reflect on some of the best films that have come out in the past year. As with all movie writers, coming up with a list like this is usually expected, but…
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Film Review – Martha Marcy May Marlene
The Sundance Film Festival has a reputation for being a launching pad for filmmakers. This is becoming more challenging, as increasingly lately it seems to be a premiere spot for the indie branches of film studios to screen their latest projects. Still, every year, a…
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