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Week in Review: Vin Diesel assures ‘Furious 7’ will win Best Picture

Don’t you hate that each year Awards Season seems to creep ever earlier in the calendar year? GOD! Can’t you just go one film festival without speculating whether it will be an Oscar contender, or whether it has the legs to survive such an increasingly long awards season? Geez, I can’t imagine why so many …

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Week in Review: Tom Hardy exits ‘Suicide Squad’, Jake Gyllenhaal may replace

UPDATE: /Film is reporting that Jake Gyllenhaal has passed on Suicide Squad. Tom Hardy, who is a brilliant actor but sounds unintelligible, was forced this week to drop out of the superhero franchise in the making Suicide Squad. Tom Hardy was to be the lead Rick Flag, alongside Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jai Courtney, Cara Delevigne …

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CIFF Day 1: ‘The Way He Looks’ and ‘The 100 Year Old Man…’

There’s a reason you go to film festivals, and it doesn’t always have to do with the lineup of movies. You could probably convince yourself that you’ll eventually watch The Imitation Game on Netflix, but the real reason to actually make a point and see it at a place like CIFF is that there’s nothing …

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‘Force Majeure’ Movie Review – is a searing and knotty satire of masculinity

The folly and arrogance of masculinity is harshly scrutinized in Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure, an intense and intelligent domestic drama that asks some cutting questions about modern gender roles. High up in the French Alps, a family of four slowly crumbles after an instant of cowardice manifests itself and continues to marinate over the course of five days. That the act takes places in just the first 10 minutes and slowly festers up until the last few scenes speaks volumes about Östlund as a stylist.

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