Posts Tagged ‘Sony Pictures Classics’
SXSW Film Review – Only Lovers Left Alive
Being out of the film festival stratosphere, I had never heard of Only Lovers Left Alive until it was announced as part of the SXSW Film Festival lineup. Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston play the main characters, and they are also vampires. Consider my interest…
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SXSW Film Review – The Raid 2: Berandal
Gareth Evans’ The Raid: Redemption (2011) was an exhilarating action thriller. Set within an apartment complex in Jakarta, we watched police officer Rama (Iko Uwais) fight his way through gangsters and drug dealers with non-stop ferocity. It reset the standard for how far action pictures…
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Film Review – Tim’s Vermeer
Where I went to art school, they didn’t actually teach you how to paint anything. You just kind of showed up and either already knew what you were doing or you just figured something out. (I was in the latter camp, fyi.) But that’s a…
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Film Review – The Armstrong Lie
Lance Armstrong is a big fat lying liar. No debate there. But he’s a liar in a sport where everybody cheats and everybody lies about it, so who really cares? Quite a lot of people, actually. For some reason, bicycle racing fans have been able…
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Film Review – Kill Your Darlings
John Krokidas’s new film, Kill Your Darlings, uses the murder of professor-turned-janitor David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) to show how the Beat poets first came together. (This film is based on a “true story.” Which is all good and fine, but the spin on some…
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Film Review – Austenland
I’m just going to get straight to the point: Austenland is really funny and you should go see it. I had some worries beforehand, but about 30 seconds in, I realized I was entering a place I really wanted to be. Let me continue by…
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Film Review – Blue Jasmine
It seems strange that Blue Jasmine marks the first collaboration between Cate Blanchett and Woody Allen. At first glance, they seem to fit stylistically. Hopefully she becomes one of Woody’s go-to actors, because what they provide is yet another interesting, engaging female character, one of…
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Interview – Rodriguez/Malik Bendjelloul – Searching for Sugar Man
Spencer interviews director Malik Bendjelloul and subject Rodriguez from the documentary Searching for Sugar Man. This segment is also available on Stitcher, iTunes and YouTube. The audio version can be downloaded directly from here.
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