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Sundance Winner ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’ gets a trailer
The hype surrounding Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl when it premiered at Sundance was enormous. The film went on to win the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize at 2015’s festival, it sparked a huge bidding war to eventually be released by Fox Searchlight and Indian Paintbrush, and the reviews were […] More
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Sundance 2015: ‘Me & Earl & the Dying Girl’ an emotional, honest and hilarious experience
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me & Earl & the Dying Girl is a film that has perhaps garnered the most hype this year at Sundance, and you should believe every word of it. By the end of the screening, there was hardly a dry eye in the entire theater. Following a teenage outsider, Greg (Thomas Mann), who makes cheap and funny remakes of classic films with his friend Earl (RJ Cyler), as he befriends a classmate, Rachel (Olivia Cooke), who has just developed leukemia. With a logline like that, it’s hard to not understand where all the tears are coming from. It sometimes feels cheap for filmmakers to use cancer as a way to garner emotion from the audience, but trust that when the tears do come, every single one has been earned. More
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‘The Signal’ is hampered by weak performances
The Signal Written by Carlyle Eubank, William Eubank, and David Frigerio Directed by William Eubank USA, 2014 Whether or not we are alone in the universe is an age old question that has racked the brains of mankind for millennia. Extraterrestrial life has been explored and researched countless times over. We have not received a […] More
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Saturday Shorts: ‘Ruby’s Skin’, starring Olivia Cooke
Today’s film is the 2014 short Ruby’s Skin. The film is written and directed by Claire Tailyour, and stars John Bowe, Mark Enticknap, and Olivia Cooke. Cooke has appeared in the series Blackout and Crickley Hall before garnering a role as Emma Decody on the A&E series Bates Motel. She can currently be seen in […] More
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Bates Motel, Ep. 2.04: “Check-Out” delves further into the Bates history
The family bonds in “Check-Out” are very much at the forefront, and while it still feels like the stories that Norman is being given are not all that interesting compared to some of the other things going on in Bates Motel, this episode at least challenges his mental state more than any other before. More