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VOTD: Every scene in ‘House of Cards’ looks the same
We’re deep in the mix of House of Cards Season 3, which just became available on Netflix Instant streaming this past Friday. Cinephiles will know that David Fincher’s brain child has a visual aesthetic that makes it look distinctly cinematic and Fincher-esque, but even after multiple seasons, directors and cinematographers, it has maintained a very […] More
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‘Gone Girl’ team set to remake Hitchcock classic ‘Strangers on a Train’
It seems like David Fincher and Gillian Flynn will be making another movie together — except it won’t be that Gone Girl sequel everyone is looking for. Deadline reported on Tuesday that the team from Gone Girl (including Fincher, Flynn, and Ben Affleck) are set to remake the classic Alfred Hitchcock movie Strangers on a Train. […] More
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50 Best Films of 2014
15. The Immigrant – If one were to rank the films of 2014 based solely on innovation, The Immigrant would probably end up near the bottom. Writer-director James Gray’s languid melodrama tells the tumultuous story of a resilient Polish woman looking to find a slice of the American Dream, without much in the way of […] More
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The 20 Best Film Scores of 2014
It’s been a great year for film music. I say that as someone who had to endure the laughably dated qualities of Alberto Iglesias’ Exodus: Gods and Kings and had to swallow the pill that is Howard Shore‘s latter days Middle-earth music. But it has been a great year. Clint Mansell gave us haunting, complex soundscapes in Noah, the […] More
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50 Best Films of 2014
40. Night Moves Since 2006, Kelly Reichardt has found a way to reach inside of the hearts of her audiences, plucking out strings one by one with desolate re-imaginations of the American Pacific Northwest, seen through the eyes of people not so different than ourselves. With Meek’s Cutoff, she departed from her typical genre and moved […] More
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Best Movie Trailers of 2014
Making a trailer is never an easy feat, regardless of the film being promoted. Nearly everyone has a story of a flawed trailer that does the opposite of its job, whether it’s by giving away the entire story of the film being promoted, or by poorly using a song. However, a memorable trailer can detach […] More
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4 Things Movies Taught Us In 2014
On the face of it, 2014 has been a rather strange year for film, a step down from an annum of classics and simultaneously a slalom dodge into the realms of adventure and discord. Here I take a look at five movies and the four lessons they taught us in 2014, for better or for worse. More
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Obsessed with Pop Culture: Best of the Week
Childhood Memories: ‘Sneak Previews’ When renowned film critic, Roger Ebert, died last year, there was a huge outpouring of appreciation from film lovers around the world. He was an ambassador for cinema who introduced audiences to countless films they might have otherwise missed. Ebert and his long-time partner, Gene Siskel, started reviewing movies on […] More
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‘Dumb and Dumber To’ takes top spot at the weekend box office
The top three films at the US box office this weekend are a sequel, an adaptation, and an original property. Leading the way is new release Dumb and Dumber To, the sequel to the Farrelly Brothers’ 1994 film Dumb and Dumber. The third film in the franchise saw original stars Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reprise […] More
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Read the screenplay for Gillian Flynn’s ‘Gone Girl’
One of the best written screenplays of the year came from the author of the screenplay’s source material, Gillian Flynn and her adaptation of her own novel Gone Girl. David Fincher’s film has rekindled the same controversy and conversation the book first sparked, making a killing at the box office in the process. Any […] More
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Hatchet for a Honeymoon: Marriage and the Screen
Last month David Fincher’s Gone Girl made a smash at the box office. As if plugged directly into the Zeitgeist, it seemed as if everyone had a take on the film’s views on gender, the media and marriage. Gone Girl was a sensation that turned the camera inward, revealing our discomfort with the institution of […] More
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The Hype Cycle: Contenders Arrive in Theaters
Excuse the absence in this column for the last few weeks. I’ve been covering the Chicago International Film Festival, catching up with a few of the Foreign Language Oscar contenders while there. Now however, many of these movies are finally making their ways into theaters, providing an extra wrinkle into the race as both critics […] More
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