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Drinking
is fun … for some people. For others, drinking is a slippery slope that leads
them down a path of destruction. In James Ponsoldt’s Smashed, teacher Kate is a member of the latter category.
The film chronicles the lives of a
young married couple that have a mutual love for alcohol, and lots of it. Kate
drinks because she’s depressed. Her...
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Richard Gere has gotten better with time as he delivers one of the best performances of his career in Nicholas Jarecki's feature film debut Arbitrage.
In the film Gere plays Robert Miller, a man who wholesomely represents the portrait of success. But on the night of his sixtieth birthday we witness Robert go to astronomical levels to sell...
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I'll be the first to admit that I have never heard of the film Bananas!*. The Dole Food Company won on that front.
But rest assured I have heard of Big Boys Go Bananas!*, the documentary about the documentary. On that one the Dole Food Company lost. They lost big!
Telling the David v. Goliath sized story of how a small...
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Keep the Lights On tells the story of two men who meet through a casual encounter and then embark on a decade long journey that has them battling the confines of love, addition, betrayal and friendship. In the end you can't help but be exhausted as both men vulnerably put their hearts on the line in an effort to fully understand the meaning...
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When a film puts the word 'killer' in the title you'd expect someone to die. This is only one of the many reasons I did not like Antonio Campos' Simon Killer.
The film tells the story of a recent college grad, played beautiful by Brady Corbet of Martha Marcy May Marlene, who opts to travel to Paris after his girlfriend of five years breaks...
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It is 11:30 at night and I am sitting in a theater
surrounded by drunk 20-somethings and 50-year-old women who have no idea what
they are about to see. At promptly 11:45 the film begins and for the next 92
minutes, the audience is barraged with dead-pan stares, shit-eating grins,
stupid songs, poop jokes, and awkward father/son moments.
“What...
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While both experimental and beautiful, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty failed to achieve what it set
out to do in telling the true tale of a young man, Terrance, and his unrequited
love for a girl, Namik. Despite
their emotional connection and their intimacy, Namik’s feelings for Terrence
never quite reach the potential he hopes for....
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Having started college as an opera major and ending it in
the English department, this film resonated with me. Josh Radnor brings to life
a wonderful mixture of literature, music, and heavy conversation in Liberal Arts, his second Sundance
break-out hit.
Jesse is an alumnus of Kenyon
College in Ohio. He is asked by a former professor to come...
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Me at the Zoo is
the title of the first video ever posted on YouTube. It was uploaded by one of
its founders, and has subsequently spawned a social phenomenon that will
forever be ingrained in the fabric of our lives. Nowadays all you need is a
million hits and you can be a celebrity. Viral videos can take anyone from nobody to international...
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Set in the near future, Robot
and Frank is a story about Frank, (Langella) an elderly ex-jewel thief who
lives alone in upstate New York. His
memory is failing, and his children are not sure what to do with him since he refuses
to recognize his limitations. His
son Hunter (Marsden) comes to visit one day, bringing a robot to assist his...
