Out in Theaters: WHIPLASH
Unconventional and bold, Whiplash might just be the biggest surprise out of 2014's Sundance Festival. Between the outstanding performances from Teller and Simmons, a winning script, and an inbred set…
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Out in Theaters: AUTÓMATA
In a movie that's supposedly, subtly about evolutionary superiority, it commits some Darwin Award worthy movie sins. Brutally convenient encounters between characters - waiting to die until in the arms…
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Out in Theaters: KILL THE MESSENGER
If she were a best friend, you'd send her kicking and screaming to a mental institution for delusions of granduer. If they were your employee, you'd fire them for flagrant…
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Out in Theaters: DRACULA UNTOLD
Don't get me wrong, this is by no means a good movie, nor is there much going on beneath it, but it's a thoroughly entertaining, fittingly dumb entry to a…
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Out in Theaters: THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY
With more in common with the films of the 1960s than the films of 2014, The Two Faces of January has a tendency to turn the pot to a low…
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Out in Theaters: GONE GIRL
Gone Girl deals in accusations and historical gender circumstance. It's a 21st century battle of the sexes; a tennis match played with grenades. Amy and Nick's affair depends entirely upon…
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Weekly Review 57: KILL, HOS2EL, SACRAMENT
Three more horror movies at home this week were joined by screening of Gone Girl, Men, Women and Children and Annabelle. With a fair amount of work on my platter and a barrage of visitors, my at home viewing wasn’t what it’s been lately. Nonetheless, I present a short selection of great, good and bad....
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Out in Theaters: ANNABELLE
The added disappointment of serializing a film whose horrors were without bound, Annabelle sullies the good name of the Warren's demonology franchise. Peddling in doll stares and wanna-be ominous monotony,…
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Out in Theaters: TRACKS
One thing is for certain: you won't find more camel drool in any other movie to come out this year. And even though the journey doesn't ever conjure up the…
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A Flawless, Expert, Foolproof Ranking of David Fincher’s Films
Seeing that Gone Girl screens here in Seattle tonight, I’ve taken it upon myself to go through and rank the films of auteur filmmaker David Fincher. Fincher is simply one of our generation’s greatest filmmakers, offering dark, twisted and thrilling dramas riddled with psychological horror and saddled with a tone so black, it’d make a...