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Shutter Island – Film Review

Posted on19. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist Martin Scorsese is the filmmaker who maybe more than any in the medium’s history brought cinephilia to the mainstream, and it’s this enormous legacy of inspiration, influence, and cinematic subtext that he has embedded in his body of work which makes Shutter Island so hard to talk about. Superficially about a U.S. [...]

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Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief – Film Review

Posted on12. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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If one wanted proof of the entertainment world’s complete and total lack of original ideas, they need look no further than Percy Jackson & The Olympians. A copy of the Harry Potter series so shameless that it even features Chris Columbus, the same director who shepherded J.K. Rowling’s character to the screen, there’s not one [...]

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Valentine’s Day – Film Review

Posted on12. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist The new romantic comedy Valentine’s Day has everything – that is, except for characters and a plot. Overstuffed with star wattage and storytelling clichés but not one single idea of substance, Gary Marshall’s film only needed to be this February’s He’s Just Not That Into You, and it couldn’t even be that. [...]

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The Wolfman - Film Review

Posted on10. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist In the parlance of 19th Century England, the time and place in which the film is set, “The Wolfman” is a little bit like a mouthful of wooden teeth: Technically it gets the job done, but to even the untrained eye, it’s not a convincing substitute for something real. In an effort [...]

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Glee’s Chris Colfer - A Notch Above Casual

Posted on22. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Amber Hubert photos by Robert Todd Williamson styled by Jenny Ricker groomed by Jenn Streicher art direction by Laura Ann Chris Colfer doesn’t want to disappoint his fans but unlike the lovable and fashionably adventurous character Kurt he plays on Fox’s hit show Glee, he won’t be caught parading around town in a translucent [...]

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Fish Tank - Film Review

Posted on19. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Brent Simon Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winner Fish Tank, from British writer-director Andrea Arnold, is a gritty, naturalistic drama that will slowly envelop patient arthouse audiences on the strength of its powerhouse performances. A slice of social realism in the vein of Ken Loach, this slow-boil, Essex-set tale of teen alienation and acting [...]

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Everybody’s Fine - Film Review

Posted on19. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Brent Simon A sensitively told remake of Giuseppe Tornatore’s same-named 1991 Italian film, Everybody’s Fine slots in respectably as the holiday season’s obligatory commercial drama of familial reconciliation. Robert De Niro stars as Frank Goode, a blue-collar retiree and recent widower from a small, south-central suburban New York burgh who, in the wake of [...]

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - Film Review

Posted on18. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Brent Simon It’s hard to bear much ill will toward Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, given that it was thrown into a state of disarray when Heath Ledger passed away last year, with much but not all of the film complete. Nevertheless, the movie doesn’t really work, apart from the gobsmacked reaction [...]

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That Evening Sun - Film Review

Posted on14. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Brent Simon About this time of year, every year, there’s at least one spare, micro-budgeted indie film that features a ruminative, calling card performance by an aging actor. This year that film is That Evening Sun, and that actor is Hal Holbrook, Oscar-nominated a few years back for Into the Wild. Based on a [...]

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Me and Orson Welles - Film Review

Posted on13. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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It won’t be for this pleasant bauble — and there’s no way to tell exactly for what it will be, given his varied filmography — but Richard Linklater will eventually win an Academy Award. The Texas-born indie auteur brings to bear his characteristically spry touch to yet another very different sort of movie than he’s [...]

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