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Week in Review: The New York Times will no longer review every movie opening in NY
In this day and age of film criticism, less of it is seemingly always a bad thing, and when a bastion like The New York Times announces they’re cutting back, it seems like a particularly painful blow. However, Variety Thursday obtained an email from NYT Film Critic A. O. Scott explaining that the Times would no […] More
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Childhood memories and explaining ‘Donnie Darko’
The gateway movie to my full-blown film addiction was Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko (2001). Kelly has yet to create a film that matches the mood or magnitude of his first success. This supernatural thriller has sparked a cult following behind its intense narrative and themes. Countless arguments have played out discussing it’s a representation of madness. Made in only 28 days it utilised a low budget of 4.5 million. This made it a poster-child for indie films. More
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“Frank” is a delightful finger-snapping oddball set to music and creative mayhem
Frank Written by Jon Ronson and Peter Straughan Directed by Lenny Abrahamson (as Leonard Abrahamson) UK/Ireland, 2014 Artistic personalities from all walks of life seem to dance to the beat of their own distinctive drums. The creative process and all its motivations and manipulations is what makes these dedicated artists strive for their performing juices. […] More
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Frank is a high concept, heartrending film
Frank Directed by Leonard Abrahamson United Kingdom, 2014 The pitch for Frank sounds like it might fall somewhere between Rubber and Kevin Smith’s upcoming Tusk: films that seem predicated on a dare, a bet, a drunken night. But Frank is a high concept film masquerading as low concept. Jon (Domhnall Gleeson) is a middle-class, IT-by-day, […] More
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Uncomfortable truths pierce through the mask of ‘Frank’
Frank steers away from almost-Almost Famous territory and into something familiar to anyone who’s seen The Devil and Daniel Johnston; director Abrahamson carries his deft balancing of tonal shifts from his 2012 film What Richard Did over to this effort. More
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Fantasia 2014: Frank is this year’s most heartwarming film about a gigantic head
Frank follows a post-internet age Billy Liar and asks, “What if he did follow his dream through, but his idol was a lunatic?” Jon (Domnhall Gleeson), a young middling English songwriter, gets invited to play keyboard for the aforementioned Frank (Michael Fassbender). Frank wears a giant fake head made of papier-mâché and refuses to take it off. Soon, Jon is invited to spend a year in Ireland with the band as they record their painstakingly overblown album, all the while secretly filming it and posting clips to YouTube. More
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Sundance London 2014: Fassbender hilarious in ‘Frank,’ a tribute to late musician
Frank Written by Jon Ronson and Peter Straughan Directed by Lenny Abrahamson UK and Ireland, 2014 It is hard to judge a character by their looks, but it becomes a much more difficult task when the person in question is hiding their face under a huge papier-mâché head. This is the challenge Hollywood star Michael […] More
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‘Frank’, with Michael Fassbender, releases its first trailer
Actor Michael Fassbender has seen his star rise significantly over the past few years, with a filmography that includes 12 Years a Slave, X-Men: First Class, Fish Tank, Inglourious Basterds, and Prometheus. Many fans of the performer were intrigued to learn that his next role would be more comedic in nature, a genre he has […] More
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Sundance 2014: Photoset
Read Sound on Sight’s review of The Double. Read our Sundance review of Infinitely Polar Bear Ten unacquired Sundance 2014 films we hope to see someday. Read our review of Rudderless Read the Sundance review of Frank Read our Sundance review of Hellion. More
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Sundance 2014: ‘Frank’ a wildly eccentric look at creativity, ego, and mental instability
Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank is brash and unflinching in its depiction of the creative process during its most raw stages and how outside influences who are overly concerned with fame can not only corrupt a unique sound, but deeply disturb a musician working through profound problems. The film is loosely based on a character that late musician […] More
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The audacity of dope: ‘White House Down’ a goofy, fun ‘Die Hard’ rip-off
Subtlety is a skill Roland Emmerich has not mastered. Subtlety is not, nor ever will be, in his repertoire; it is likely as alien a concept to him as opposable thumbs are to all non-human creatures. Most of the time, his thudding portentousness doesn’t serve him well as a director, with previous misfires like The Day After Tomorrow, Godzilla, and 2012 lining his filmography, movies that are big and loud enough to make money despite being massively, unpleasantly stupid. More
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‘White House Down’, the newest thriller from Roland Emmerich, releases its first trailer
Filmmaker Roland Emmerich has made a name for himself in the Hollywood action blockbuster genre, with numerous hits to his name, most notably 1996’s Independence Day, which helped establish Will Smith as a credible leading man. Emmerich, however, has not had a film open in the traditional blockbuster summer season since 2004’s The Day After Tomorrow, an anomaly […] More
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