We Need to Talk About We Need to Talk About Kevin
There are films meant to scare, and there are films meant to disturb, and come Halloween I’m much more inclined toward the latter. The scariest films I know of aren’t...
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Captain Phillips Movie Review
Score: 9.5/10 “Captain Phillips” is based on the true story of the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama off the Somali Coast by pirates. During the incident, the...
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Cheesyball
A Retrospective Review of Moneyball “How can you not be romantic about baseball?” asks Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) in the penultimate scene of Moneyball, echoing his...
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Retroactive Review: The Last Samurai
Score: 9/10 “They say Japan was made by a sword. They say the old gods dipped a coral blade into the ocean, and when they pulled it out four perfect drops fell...
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The Great Casting Challenge: Part III
It seems this Ben Affleck casting caused quite a stir. As the news was dropped and the debris laid rest, fans were up in arms over their fallen hero, Christian Bale....
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Foster the People
Here’s the thing: here are issues, and there are Issues. Every film, at least those with a conventional narrative, is going to have an issue at its core. Characters...
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