A fascinating inside look into the making of what some have called the Gone With the Wind of porno flicks, Lovelace is most successful when allowing its characters room to explore their emotional topography.
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Warren Cantrell
‘The Moo Man’ is a celebration of those brave souls out there, in any job, who engage in a difficult profession because they enjoy it and believe in it, and not simply because it pays the bills.
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What’s the purpose of cinema if not to engage its audience on a level (or levels) that both entertains, but also broadens their understanding of a particular theme or notion? A Teacher fails in both of these endeavors, for it is not only a shitty time (this movie is a slog), but it doesn’t bring its audience to a new place by the time it fades to black.
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As a cinematic adaptation of a literary piece, Big Sur is near-flawless, for it makes extensive use of Kerouac’s writing from the book, and uses its powerful cadence and pacing to draw the audience into the increasingly fragmented mind of the legendary Beatnik.
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Easily the frontrunner for the best picture going at Sundance right now, Breathe In is a film about adulthood, marriage, compromise, and how love, true, pure love, isn’t always a good thing.
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Concussion is a film about a New York wife and mother who suffers a little head trauma, an injury that leads her to a stunning realization: she doesn’t much care for her life, and wants to try something new. Yet this is hardly an American Beauty reboot.
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‘Halley’ is a quiet, challenging film about a man who keeps going long after his time in the universe has passed. Check out this review of ‘Halley’ from the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
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A beautifully shot picture with stunning performances from each member of the cast, Kill Your Darlings is a very tender, thoughtful tribute to the Beats, and their spiritual leader, Ginsberg.
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A very frustrated, fatigued, and self-aware videogame soldier named Brooks laments how many friggin’ times he’s had to play this particular level in this Sundance 2013 selection.
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A good chunk of the people bumped into on the Park City sidewalks are lean, fit, well-tanned, immaculately dressed out-of-towners who look like they’ve used the phrase “money is no object” at least twice this week.
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When Quentin Tarantino writes or directs a film, one can rest assured in the knowledge that it will involve hard-hearted characters living in a dangerous world most likely fueled by drugs, hard-core violence, crime syndicates, and good music.
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Steven Spielberg’s newest holiday Oscar-bait project, Lincoln, suffers under the burden of its own ambitious pretensions, for what it offers up in the acting department is often sabotaged by jagged pacing, uneven story-telling, and a redundant message.
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So we had a hell of a storm last week: one of the biggest, and most destructive in recent memory, at least for the region hardest hit. Indeed, it was the kind of squall that usually serves as the backdrop to some hellacious cinematic set piece, one where the picture’s heroes must navigate the pitfalls of the gods and men alike.
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Warren Cantrell from 10rant.com names the 10 movie characters you’d least want to get trapped in a car with. Somehow this whole thing was inspired by the new Ban Affleck movie ‘Argo.’ Huh?
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For almost as long as there have been films, there have been spooky stories about roving spirits, demons, or creatures flexing their supernatural muscle. This month there’s a pair of supernatural thrillers in The Apparition and The Possession, but what are the Top 10 Best Ghost Movies?
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