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Forces of Geek "A History of Sci-Fi Cinema" - Pt XII
The fine folks over at Forces of Geek have allowed me the space and time to ramble on about the history of science fiction cinema. These bi-weekly columns, will make an attempt, however feeble, at...
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Film Review: Adam Wingard's You're Next
When recommending this new thriller from Adam Wingard, I cannot say, with any semblance of seriousness, that what you are about to experience is a movie bathed in originality, or even any huge amount...
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Yeah, yeah, I haven't been around in a while. So fuckin' sue me! Oh wow, sorry 'bout that. I should be nice here. Ah, fuck that too!! Wow, I am an ass, but that is not why I am here right now (we...
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Film Review: Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster
Every year, I post a most anticipated films list here on my site. Back in 2011, the film that topped that list was Wong Kar-wai's much anticipated Kung-Fu epic, The Grandmaster. But alas, 'twas not...
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Film Review: Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Don Jon
There are oh so obvious allusions to the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever, all throughout this film, but one could also look at Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut as something akin to Martin Scorsese's...
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Film Review: Kimberly Peirce's Carrie
A good remake, huh? Okay, it can happen once and a while. Right? Perhaps. A good remake (oxymoron perhaps?) must tread that fine line between being faithful to the original while also giving us...
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Film Review: Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity
I am not one to lightheartedly recommend seeing a movie in 3D, when a perfectly fine 2D version is available just one screen over, but every now and again, it is something I am prone to do. I did it...
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Early Bird Oscar Predictions
Welly well well, the Oscars may still be several months away, but that's no reason to not get ahead of the curve, and announce your Oscar nomination predictions. So, without further ado (other than...
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Film Review: Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue is the Warmest Color
A three hour French lesbian drama, where one of the characters is underage, and where the director and actresses are publicly battling over supposed mistreatment on set, and all saddled with the...
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Film Review: Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave
12 Years a Slave is one of those films that overwhelms in such a thematic way that many believe it to be a good, or even a great film, when in reality it is merely mediocre. There, I said it, now...
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Film Review: Edgar Wright's The World's End
They call it the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. First came Shaun of the Dead in 2004, a genre satire taking on the zombie film, and the best damn rom-zom-com out there. Next came Hot Fuzz in 2007,...
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Film Review: Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine
For approximately a quarter of century now, with the release of each new Woody Allen film (and there is usually one a year) critics invariably say one of two things. Either it is a return to form for...
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Film Review: David O. Russell's American Hustle
From his quirky beginnings in the indie world to his more recent Oscary successes, filmmaker David O. Russell has played his directorial hand at many different honey pots, from teen sex comedy to...
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Film Review: Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street
As a Martin Scorsese fan from the moment this once impressionable thirteen year old mind first caught a glimpse of Taxi Driver on late night TV more than thirty years ago, it is with great sadness (and...
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The Best of 2013
Hey everybody! It's that time of the year again. That time where we film critics (and others of a similar cinematic bent) dole out our annual best and worst of the year lists. Well, that is just...
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Film Review: Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing
Let me attempt to put a more US audience-tested face on this whole shebang. Try to imagine the likes of Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, still being alive, and reenacting their crimes against...
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Film Review: Spike Jonze's Her
When I first saw Spike Jonze's feature debut, Being John Malkovich, over fourteen years ago (has it really been that long?), I was, as some are prone to say, blown away. To this day, I still consider...
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Final Oscar Nomination Predictions
Welly well well, here we are on another Oscar nominations eve, so, without further ado (other than the poster image of 12 Years a Slave, that is), here are my final, and as the post's title says,...
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Oscar Nomination Talk..and an Oscar Poll to Boot!!
Well kids, it's time to see just who got nominated for that oh so coveted little golden guy, apocryphally named after Bette Davis' uncle Oscar, as well as find out just how well (or how poorly, but we...
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Film Review: Joel & Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis
Set inside their moody, 'grey skies are never going to clear up' world, the brothers' Coen have created yet another slice of their unique brand of morose emotionally-macabre moviemaking. And this...
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My 25 Most Anticipated Films of 2014
Well, it's that time of the year again. All the hoopla of the past year's top tens has finally died down, and even though we still have the Oscars coming up, it's time to turn our eyes toward the...
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Film Review: John Wells & Tracy Letts' August: Osage County
When I say something along the lines of Julia Roberts gives the best damn performance of her career in August: Osage County, it is not all that bold a statement. After years of playing in films below...
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Film Review: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's The Lego Movie
Sure, it may be, as some are prone to gripe, just a kid's movie. Sure, it may be just a PG-rated Robot Chicken, and therefore sadly lacking in the guts department. Sure, it may just be this...
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Film Review: Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty
So far, anyone and everyone who has reviewed this The Great Beauty, or La Grande Bellezza in its native Italian tongue, has one descriptive in common - and that descriptive is highlighted by everyone's...
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Hello, I Must Be Going...But Not That Far
Yes dear readers, in the immortal words of one Mister Julius Henry 'Groucho' Marx - hello, I must be going. But not to worry, for my going is not going to be all that far away. In fact it's just...
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