I can with a straight-face and complete seriousness say that ‘Spring Breakers’ is Harmony Korine’s most mature film, and the craft and control that Korine exerts on his medium is incredible.
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March 2013
In ‘Stoker,’ everything Park Chan-wook’s camera does adds depth and clarity to the emotional or psychological state of the characters within the frame.
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It’s a U.K.-produced crime caper that’s neither funny nor thrilling, and it is frustratingly, singlemindedly bent on cheap thrills and faux-clever dialogue and situations that are so contrived and hackneyed that Troy Duffy probably threw them out while making Boondock Saints II:All Saints Day.
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The Kansas City Art Institute and Alamo Drafthouse have joined forces to bring you Film School, a weekly student curated film series. This week – SEVEN SAMURAI – Saturday, March 23rd at 3 p.m.
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Two very funny comedies with their share of darkness and razor-sharp insight into adult relationships are now out on Blu-ray.
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These face-melting movie scenes count as some of the first real glimpses many of us had for gore. Despite the fact that you now see on prime-time television scientifically correct images of what happens when a body is rent asunder by an number of accidental causes, there’s something to be said for the cartoonish, yet horrendous manner in which a face just drips right away.
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If you want something emotionally moving and different than a lot of American films being made, then you should spend an evening with ‘About Sunny.’ Out on VOD and other digital platforms March 19th.
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‘Hitchcock’ and ‘Smashed’ may not have the kind of heavy drama you’d expect from their subject matters, but each movie, out now on Blu-ray and DVD, works on its own terms.
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We’re a man down this week as Eric and Trevan talk about the new Steve Carell vehicle The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and A Place At The Table, a documentary about hunger in the United States.
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Is the new hit-and-miss comedy The Incredible Burt Wonderstone a hard-edged satire of puffed-up egos and easily mocked magicians or is it a heartwarming comedy about a selfish man who is forced to wake up when he suddenly falls on hard times?
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It was in the freewheeling spirit of huckster Oscar Diggs that the exceptionally talented Drafthouse chefs created the ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ Dinner Party as a way to celebrate.
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France submitted this touching film, new out on Blu-ray and DVD, as their official selection for the Foreign Language Film Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards because that’s the year it was released here in the States.
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Last year was a great one for movies with big themes and stunning cinematography. No two movies from 2012 encapsulate both of these traits better than Life of Pi and The Master, and both are now out to own on Blu-ray.
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I’m Now stays focused on Mudhoney. While Nirvana, Pearl Jam, et al are mentioned, it’s only when they’re pertinent to the narrative. At no point do the directors attempt to make this a more commercial film by making it about Mudhoney’s more well-known contemporaries.
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The Kansas City Art Institute and Alamo Drafthouse have joined forces to bring you Film School, a weekly student curated film series. This week – REAL GENIUS!
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