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FILM REVIEW: 'RESOLUTION'Risky Storytelling & Deconstructed Style In Surreal Low Budget HorrorIt's as if the film is toying with your mind, waiting to attack in an unguarded moment. |
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FILM REVIEW: 'HARD ROMANTICKER'Drugs, Sex & Death Dominate Brutal Japanese Exploitation ThrillerSu-yeon Gu seems to have put a lot of his personal demons into this intense film, and the result is definitely hard – in more than one sense of the word. |
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FILM REVIEW: 'BATMAN: YEAR ONE'Now Streaming: Bryan Cranston & Ben McKenzie Voice Frank Miller-Inspired Batman PrequelIf you've been feeling lost since the trilogy's end, then the DC Universe Animated Original Movie Batman: Year One may be the return to Gotham you've been craving. |
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FILM REVIEW: 'JOHN DIES AT THE END'Don Coscarelli Returns To Cinema With Imaginative Horror Comedy & Future Cult ClassicAn amped up, drug-fueled deviant drug trip of a movie, 'John Dies At The End' is a mind-blowing horror comedy that demands a second, third and fourth watch. |
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FILM REVIEW: 'BERNIE'Now Streaming: Golden Globe Nominee Jack Black Leads Charming Crime Mockumentary'Bernie' asks whether we can judge an individual based on a single action, or whether we must take into account every other choice they've made in their lives. |
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FILM REVIEW: 'SLEEPWALK WITH ME'Mike Birbiglia Writes, Directs & Stars In Self-Deprecating Love Letter To Stand-Up ComedyIn 2008, Birbiglia opened Sleepwalk as an off-Broadway one-man show that linked standup comedy and theater that was incredibly well-received by New York media. |
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FILM INTERVIEW: CAST & CREATOR OF 'THIS IS 40'Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Judd Apatow & Megan Fox Find Comedy In Reality In Sort-Of SequelPaul Rudd: ... the actual trajectory of the story is not so cut and dry, I think. It's more unfolding and episodic in the way that life is. |
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FILM REVIEW: 'ANY DAY NOW'Alan Cumming's Powerhouse Performance Brings Modern Relevance To 1970s LGBT Activism... funny and entertaining throughout. Rudy's defense against the world is sarcastic humor, and he uses it to alternately defuse and inflame taught situations. |
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FILM REVIEW: 'HYDE PARK ON HUDSON'Bill Murray Crafts Outstanding Performance In Unusual Roosevelt Biopic[Bill Murray] gives Roosevelt a persona entirely distinct from his own, with unique mannerisms, posture, and inflections of speech. |
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FILM REVIEW: 'WAITING FOR LIGHTNING'Competitive Spirit & Overcoming Obstacles In Inspirational Skateboarding Documentary'Waiting for Lightning' is the inspirational story of a visionary who has been changing the skating world in front of his peers since he was 11-years-old. |
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FILM REVIEW: 'PERSISTENCE OF VISION'A 30-Year Odyssey & Lifelong Quest Mold Kevin Schreck’s Engrossing Documentary'Persistence of Vision', then, is the story of a man who couldn't tame his own creative demons. |
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FILM REVIEW: 'HITCHCOCK'Anthony Hopkins & Helen Mirren Delight In The Macabre In Lively Master Of Suspense BiopicFor someone so visible in the public eye and pop culture, Alfred Hitchcock is a nearly impossible man to portray, and Hopkins does so with an easy grace. |
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FILM REVIEW: 'SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK'Lawrence & Cooper’s Performances Bring Oscar Buzz To Infectious Dark ComedyDavid O. Russell’s story about mental illness combines a moving drama, deviously dark comedy, and stirring romance - without dropping the ball. |
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FILM REVIEW: 'GINGER & ROSA'Vibrant Color, Subtle Strengths & The Remarkable Elle Fanning In '60s Coming Of Age DramaGinger (Elle Fanning) is at an age when everything feels brighter, sharper, and filled with profound import. |
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FILM REVIEW: 'ANNA KARENINA'An Electric Take On Tolstoy's Story From Visionary Director Joe WrightThis bold, feverish tale of forbidden passion and scandal is immortalized in the spectacle of its setting, and a truly unique take on a Russian classic. |
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FILM REVIEW: 'A LATE QUARTET'Tense Issues, Improvised Dialogue & Philip Seymour Hoffman Give Musical Drama Its Melody... the film does an admirable job of slowly humanizing its characters until we see their emotional struggles rather than their socioeconomic standing. |
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FILM REVIEW: 'SKYFALL'Daniel Craig & Sam Mendes Bring Class, Deadly Style To The Latest 007 InstallmentThe twenty-third chapter in Bond’s story truly has it all – classic cars, futuristic gadgets, Bond girls, a larger-than-life villain, and a spy that just won’t quit. |
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FILM REVIEW: 'CLUELESS'Now Streaming: Clever 90s Catch Phrases & A Fresh-Faced Paul Rudd In A Cult Teen Classic“He is kind of a Baldwin.” “She's a full-on Monet.” “The PC term is hymenally challenged.” |
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FILM REVIEW: 'A ROYAL AFFAIR'Embracing High Drama & Intricate Themes In Mesmerizing Danish Period Piece... a mesmerizing biopic that tackles the true story of Denmark’s late 18th Century ideological shift and the adulterous scandal connected to it. |
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FILM REVIEW: 'THE BAY'Flesh Eating Monsters, A Dash Of Camp & Fun Found Footage HorrorIn movie-land, the isopods start out as wriggling black worms, burrowing deep into the fish and laying eggs... but they don’t stay worms for long. |