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Review the Reviewer – Aggregator Syndrome
The heaven and hell of aggregators, however good for us is how very often they glaze over specificity and flavor, how they mute the tangible for the sugary breakfast cereal high and resort to salty...
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Killer Joe (2011)
It is Friedkin’s mannered pursuit of the macabre in his 2011 socio-pathetic amorality tale Killer Joe that elicits gut wrenching contractions, disarming the viewer to uneasy laughter that feels wrong...
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Brave (2012)
"Brave" is about knowing yourself in everything you perceive as different and the realization that the heart is as delicate as it is resilient to the wounding of experience - what the soul already...
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Savages (2012)
"Savages" is based on the wildly popular novel of the same name by Don Winslow, with a script co-collaborated between Stone, Winslow and Shane Salerno, the film is rapid fire tongues and razor wire wit...
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Argo (2012)
So "Argo" should be on your list of movies to watch if you've missed it up to now. Be advised that the thrills come in bite-fulls and the story is much more about an ensemble cast than any one...
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Django Unchained (2012)
"Django" ends up being textbook Tarantino theatrics, hardly more than his usual penchant for bedraggled morality tales, the sort of bop-prosody that fans soak up in cotton ball doses while others take...
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Filmmaker and Film Critic makes Movie Blogger Efforts
Writing about movies is about as close to making them as I can get right now and I think it puts me in a unique position to share my thoughts as a bridge for others to fall in love with the how as much...
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Why Write About The Movies We Hate
Apparently I'm not alone. We hate our movies and love them for all sorts of reasons. People hate theaters and theater people, they hate other movie goers and especially critics; that goes for bloggers...
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Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Oliver Stone’s films live and breathe in the aether of happenstance and catastrophe, hand-wrung spaghetti noodles on the wall of Americana in Technicolor pasticcio, washed in controversy and teeming...
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Twixt (2011)
“Twixt” is about dead-end roads and the distracted ambition of the travelers we find there in a makeshift world about middle grounds between dreams and the indecision of lost souls. We are invitees to...
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Concussion (2013)
Writer-Director Stacie Passon’s 2013 film “Concussion” masterfully crafts the complexity of inward glances to produce a quality of deafening silence that fills the screen with the unconveyable voracity...
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The Triumphant Returns And Spectacular Failures of Blogging in Hollywoodland
Blogging for the people that read blogs about people retiring from the spotlight for ten minutes and then in a desperate thirst for one more headline slipping back as though they never quit at all is...
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Gravity (2013)
Despite the overwhelming positivism, both in reviews and ratings and award show gold, "Gravity" suffers from the same nausea ad infinitum that often relegates it to little more than a snappily dressed...
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