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The Great Gatsby (PG-13) Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!) adapts F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about a 1920s writer (Tobey Maguire) who witnesses the tragically doomed...
Upstream Color: Tantalizing
Critics have called Shane Carruth’s Dallas-filmed sophomore feature Upstream Color a lot of things: obscure, elliptical, cryptic. It’s true that Carruth, the North Texas-raised...
Iron Man 3: Terror Plot
Was giving former Hollywood wunderkind Shane Black the keys to Iron Man’s ignition something of a crazy bet? Because the writer-director hasn’t been a...
Blogging “Django Unchained” (The End Chapters)
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I mentioned this before, but I'll repeat my SPOILER ALERT: All plot developments are given away in...
R.I.P., Deanna Durbin
I'm interrupting my series of Django Unchained posts to bring you this piece of movie news: The passing of Deanna Durbin at the age...
Film Shorts
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Iron Man 3 (PG-13) Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is forced into hiding by a string of bombings masterminded by The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley)...
Mud: A Clear Vision
In his previous film, Take Shelter, filmmaker Jeff Nichols relied on subtle direction and the exigencies of financial peril to ground the apocalyptic, magical...
Pain & Gain: Muscle Bay
Wonders never cease. Here’s Michael Bay, director of the Transformers movies and various other crimes against cinema, taking time out to helm a caper...
Blogging “Django Unchained” (Heading to Candyland)
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I’m thoroughly confused about the spelling of the name of Calvin’s estate. The DVD chapter heading has it “Candieland,”...
Blogging “Django Unchained” (The Greenville Chapters)
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• Over a shot of our two heroes on a plain backdropped by a snowy mountain, these words scroll up the...
