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Catching Up With the Classics (Part 1)
A few weeks ago I blogged about Sight & Sound’s list of the greatest movies ever and urged you to see some of them....
Film Shorts
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Butter (R) Jennifer Garner stars in this political satire as an Iowa woman who expects to finally win her local butter-sculpting competition, only to...
Frankenweenie: Ghost Dog
Expanded from the same 1984 short film that got Tim Burton fired as a Disney animator, Frankenweenie (which Burton has made under Disney’s auspices,...
Wallflower: End of the Tunnel
Stephen Chbosky’s coming-of-age novelette The Perks of Being a Wallflower was a huge hit when it was published in 1999, and the author received...
Considering Bruce Willis
I didn’t have space to get into this in my review of Looper, but I continue to be amazed by the career of Bruce...
DVD Review: “Damsels in Distress”
This is how big a Whit Stillman fan I am: I saw his Metropolitan as a teenager. (Weirdly enough, it was broadcast on local...
Super Looper
You can’t accuse Rian Johnson of lacking ambition. Best known for his polarizing debut film, the 2006 high-school noir picture Brick, Johnson has come...
Film Shorts
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (PG-13) Stephen Chbosky adapts his own best-selling novel about a Pittsburgh kid (Logan Lerman) who navigates through his...
Pitch Perfect: College Notes
Between Glee, YouTube, and TV’s various singing competition shows, our pop culture is awash in cover songs like never before. That’s why the spectacle...
Film Shorts
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Compliance (R) This film by Craig Zobel (Great World of Sound) is about a mysterious prank caller who induces a fast-food outlet manager (Ann...
