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Sundance 2016: Affleck’s performance and Lonergan’s writing buoy ‘Manchester by the Sea’
‘Manchester by the Sea’ can be a soul-crushing watch at times, but its beauty and humanity make it a hauntingly life-affirming experience. More
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Sundance 2016: Most Anticipated
The Sundance Film Festival brings the most original storytellers together with the most adventurous audiences for its annual program of dramatic and documentary films, shorts, New Frontier films, installations, performances, panel discussions, and dynamic music events. Since 1985, hundreds of films launched at the Festival have gained critical recognition, received commercial distribution, and reached worldwide […] More
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Disney Blu-ray Roundup: ‘Oz the Great and Powerful,’ ‘The Emperor’s New Groove,’ ‘Atlantis: The Lost Empire,’ and ‘Lilo and Stitch’
How much are you willing to spend on a Blu-ray combo pack if you don’t get any special features? I’ve posed this question in so many words in past Disney Blu-ray Roundup columns, and it’s perhaps never felt more pressing than today, specific to three of their four new releases. (We’ll get to Oz the […] More
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 88: ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’
You’re…off to see the wizard! The powerful wizard of Oz! We hear he is a bit of a jerk, if ever a jerk there was! If ever, oh, ever a sleaze there was, the wizard of Oz is one because…because, because, because, because, because…because of the slimy old things he does! You’re off to see […] More
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‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ a sometimes charming, sometimes flat fantasy-adventure
Oz the Great and Powerful Directed by Sam Raimi Written by Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abaire USA, 2013 Oz the Great and Powerful is a film obsessed with façades. The characters, particularly the lead, rely on being able to control and define what is and isn’t real. Oscar Diggs, a would-be genius magician who accidentally […] More
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‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ overcomes flaws to become a fine entry in an old series
Oz the Great and Powerful Written by Mitchell Knapper and David Lindsay-Abaire Directed by Sam Raimi U.S.A., 2013 Here we go again. Another March, another major live action Disney film coming to theatres. More than that, it is another live action adventure which taps into very old, much beloved fantasy literature, directed by a major […] More
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More Equal Than Others: Six Films of 2012 Done Better
For better or worse, films don’t exist in a vacuum. If literature derives from itself, and, according to Marshall McLuhan, the content in any new medium is always the same as in the old, then films don’t exactly have a wealth of opportunities to be original. You can always compare a film to one that […] More
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Trailer: Sam Raimi returns with ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’
The poster and trailer for Oz the Great and Powerful proudly trumpet Sam Raimi as the “visionary director of the Spider-Man trilogy.” Seems like odd timing for that bit of cross-promotion, no? In any case, The trailer showcases a bit of Wizard of Oz-aping visual shifting, moving from black-and-white and 1.33:1 to widescreen and full […] More
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‘Take This Waltz,’ while far from perfect, shows off some nice moves
Take This Waltz Directed by Sarah Polley Written by Sarah Polley Canada, 2011 Actress, writer, producer, director, Sarah Polley can apparently do it all. Ever since her touching, memorable performance in Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter, she has earned her place within the film industry on both sides of the Canadian-American borders. Her work is […] More
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Inside Out 2012: ‘Keep the Lights On’; a powder Blue Valentine
Keep the Lights On Directed by Ira Sachs Written by Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias USA, 2012 Keep the Lights On tells the story of Erik Rothman (Thure Lindhardt), a gay Danish documentary filmmaker living in late 90’s New York City. While not filming, Erik likes to patron the city’s phone-sex lines, soliciting no-strings-attached one-night […] More
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Bar Michelle Williams, ‘My Week with Marilyn’ is full of the one-note
My Week with Marilyn Written by Adrian Hodges Directed by Simon Curtis UK/USA, 2011 My Week with Marilyn’s key strength, and obvious biggest point of interest for most viewers, is Michelle Williams’ turn as Monroe. Williams excels at portraying various facets of Monroe’s star image omnipresent in pop culture, but the quality of the performance […] More
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‘Blue Valentine’ Soundtrack: Haunted by Ghosts of the city and the past
The news of indie favourites Grizzly Bear contributing an all-original soundtrack for the intense romantic drama Blue Valentine has been circulating on the internets for quite sometime now. Bated breaths were held, waiting for the new material to surface accompanied closely by the also no doubt brilliant, yet heartbreakingly beautiful, film featuring Ryan Gosling and […] More
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