Out in Theaters: PADDINGTON
Though the third act fails to get off the ground - literally and figuratively - in much of the same ways that the first two do, the accordant motif of…
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Out in Theaters: BLACKHAT
The hacker thriller is a tough cookie to crack and has led to more certifiably misfires than any other action subgenre I can summon (yes, even more so than the…
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Weekly Review 68: ALEXANDER, LEAVE, PREDESTINATION, INTERVIEW
Having just tied a tidy little bow on 2014 with our Top Ten Movies of the Year article, there is still always that sense that you missed something. Still in the midst of compiling that infamous Top 100 list, we took to scourging through some of those that slunk under the radar for one reason...
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Weekly Review 67: ALICE, SNIPER, THEOREM
In the few moments of downtime, I’ve managed to churn and burn through a shortlist of 2014 Must Sees including Still Alice – for which Julianne Moore will win an Oscar – American Sniper – Clint Eastwood’s dutifully told biopic on prolific sniper Chris Kyle – and Terry Gilliam‘s weirdo-fest The Zero Theorem. So hurry,...
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Out in Theaters: INTO THE WOODS
The cast is admittedly stellar - Anna Kendrick, Corden, Blunt, Pine and, to a lesser degree, Streep all own their numbers, even if I personally found some of those numbers…
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Out in Theaters: THE IMITATION GAME
In 1952, Alan Turing was convicted of gross indecency due to the investigation that bookends the film. In trying to prove that Turing was a spy, the local law reveled…
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Out in Theaters: FOXCATCHER
Some people collect stamps. Others Beanie Babies. John du Pont wanted to collect talent. He wanted to bunch it all up in his verdant Pennsylvania farm and own it for…
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Out in Theaters: ANNIE
There's more plot holes as big as the sun (Spoiler: why would Annie's orphan friends help audition fake parents for her? Seriously, why?! Are they just the worst friends ever?…
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Out in Theaters: THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES
From the humble (boring) beginnings of An Unexpected Journey to the foot-dragging musings of Desolation of Smaug, Jackson and Co. have depended upon a sense of nostalgia for the far…
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Weekly Review 66: MOTIVATION, COPS, FOLLOWS, BELLE, WILD, EXPENDABLES, JOURNEY
It’s been a long week – a final homestretch towards officially calling 2014 – that capped off in a very long flight, so this weekly is as stuffed as ever. After screenings of Into the Woods (review to follow) and Top Five, I watched a few films at home that I’d been meaning to get...