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Showing posts with label 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2014. Show all posts
Monday, October 12, 2015

Returned to Life

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One of the reasons that film noir has persisted in the cultural massmind is because films noir are so often epistemological. Questions of ...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

A Wolf Cub In the Desert

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Theeb (2014, directed by Naji Abu Nowar) finds its title character, a young Bedouin growing up in 1916, roped into a grand adventure. For ...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Salting the Soil

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The Salt of the Earth (2014, directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado) is one of those documentaries that confounds expectation...
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Saturday, May 16, 2015

Heinlein in Hollywood part 3: Closing the Loop

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Robert A. Heinlein is typically considered one of the grand masters of the so-called "Golden Age of Science Fiction," that period...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Dog Eat Dog

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I'm conflicted about the Dardenne brothers' latest film, Two Days, One Night (2014). On the one hand, I think that in spite of the...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Monstrous Feminine

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David Cronenberg has always included a strain of horror toward women and female sexuality in his films. The monstrous feminine often manife...
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Saturday, April 18, 2015

Backward Glances

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Horror movies are going through one of their periodic revivals right now. The last eighteen months or so have been particularly fertile for...
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Saturday, March 28, 2015

Myths, Stories, and Songs

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Song of the Sea (2014, directed by Tomm Moore) expands on the design aesthetic of Moore's The Secret of Kells , while diving even deep...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

True/False 2015: Remote Control

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Documentaries about the "War on Terror" seem like a permanent fixture in the contemporary film landscape. So long as horrible thi...
Monday, March 02, 2015

The Devil, You Say?

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Alexandre Aja is a director who is never likely to live up to his promise. I'm not a fan of his signature film, Haute Tension , but I c...
Sunday, March 01, 2015

Ministers of Grace

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My first impression of Calvary (2014, directed by John Michael McDonagh) was that it was deadpan religious noir. It's a film that atte...
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Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Imitation of Life

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The Imitation Game (2014, directed by Morten Tyldum) aims to right an historical wrong. It postulates that the mathematician, Alan Turing,...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Gray Men, Gray World

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When I was sixteen, my parents gave me an omnibus edition of John le Carré's Karla novels ( Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable S...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Rhythm Method

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Back when I was just out of college, I had a conversation with some friends over a game of spades about what you would have to score on the...
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Sunday, January 04, 2015

Revenge of the Nerds

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Big Hero 6 (2014, directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams) is suggestive of why Disney bought Marvel a few years ago. They see potential b...
Thursday, January 01, 2015

Hindsight is 20/20

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It's customary for people who write about film to do retrospectives this time of the year. I'll make up a top whatever list eventua...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

December Potpourri

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I'm behind on my reviews again. Here's a round-up of what I've seen recently:
Friday, December 26, 2014

There and Back Again

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There's a scene near the very end of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014, directed by Peter Jackson) that highlights the s...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Superhero Blues

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Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu), like many of the director's films, s...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2014

If That Mockingjay Won't Sing...

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The third film in the Hunger Games series suffers dramatically from being only half a movie. I mean that literally. The Hunger Games: Mock...
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