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Why do animators on films like Monster House and The Polar Express spend so much energy trying to realistically render people? The wave of...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2009
This post is for anyone who sat through the Transformers sequel and concluded that film writing is dead. I was privileged enough to see...
House of Gucci: Divorce, Italian-Style
“The ex-wife of Italian fashion heir Maurizio Gucci was convicted of ordering her husband’s murder, and was sentenced to 29 years in prison. Most...
Survivor Girl
Wendy Orr wrote a story when she was nine years old.
Decades later it turned into her 2002 novel Nim's Island, a slim and...
Angry Birds: Red Mist
Movies based on video games continue to earn their wretched reputation, and I’m afraid The Angry Birds Movie won’t do anything to change that....
Legal Eagle: The Conspirator
Even though it has a bigger budget and higher production values than most of the entries at the Sundance Film Festival, the historical legal...
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)...
Film Shorts
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Third Person (R) The latest film by Paul Haggis (Crash) is a series of interlocking romantic stories set in Rome, Paris, and New York....
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2018
Here we are once again with my favorite recurring feature of my end-of-year coverage: The best movie dialogue of 2018. Ground rules for all...
Film Shorts
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The Beguiled (R) Sofia Coppola’s adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s Civil War novel is about a wounded Union soldier (Colin Farrell) who stumbles into a...
