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“We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are.” You’ve heard of this movie. Haven’t you? It’s the one that goes backwards, made by the guy who did The Dark Knight. Except that’s not strictly true. Yes, it begins at the end of the story, and ends at the beginning, but interspersed throughout it are …
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Tom Hooper is an Academy Award-winning director (for The King’s Speech in 2010). He’s directed television for HBO and the BBC, as well as numerous television commercials and some theatrical productions. So why does he shoot his newest film, the adaptation of the enormously successful musical Les Miserables, like a novice who’s been given his …
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So, everybody and their mother is falling over themselves to do a Top Whatever list of Movies for 2012. The problem is, a lot of really good ones came out in a short period of time at the end of it, many of them only in limited release. I mean, seriously, I’m a gigantic Tarantino …
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Christmas is coming, the goose is getting morbidly obese, etc etc. So, for this week’s entry, I decided to do something a little different. Instead of just me blathering on about one movie decided upon in a completely arbitrary fashion, I’ve gotten some of my friends and colleagues to write about their favorite Christmas/holiday movies! …
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Pop-punk is a weird line to toe. On one hand, you have the whole “punk” aesthetic, which basically eschews any sort of sentiment or authority and goes for pure energy and noise, while on the other you have “pop”, which means crowd-pleasing and fun for all. Those two forces push and pull at the artists …
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So I’m honestly not sure I can write anything about this film. It was over-the-top, violent, and seriously INSANE. I’ve read the book, and I quite honestly hated it. There was a vile racist undercurrent to the whole thing, and it seemed like Mark Millar laughing at his audience rather than with them; he seemed …
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I’m taking a week away from the A-Z of Geek Cinema column to talk about the latest release from the WWE, its paean to the height of its past glory, The Attitude Era. Just put out last week on DVD and BluRay, the multi-disc set contains a documentary covering the circumstances and players behind what …
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Very clever commentary on product placement indoctrinating the young, or blatant use of product placement to indoctrinate the young? It’s hard to tell with this film. Josie And The Pussycats was a film I enjoyed immensely when I first saw it in theatres, comparing it to a live-action Simpsons episode. Its gags hit fast and in high …
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Vulgar, funny, and poignantly trenchant, Armanda Ianucci’s 2009 film In The Loop is not only one of the most quotable films I’ve ever seen, it’s also the scariest.
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We need to talk about Shakespeare. Well, not really. I just liked using that as an opening line. Instead, let us talk about what many consider Shakespeare’s greatest work, Hamlet. Specifically, the adaptation of such to film. There’s been quite a few, really. From Olivier to Branagh, Mel Gibson to Ethan Hawke, the Bard’s melancholy …
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