Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island is a spectacular mis-fire.
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REVIEW – Shutter Island
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments
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MOON – the best film of 2009 that you haven’t heard of
January 12th, 2010 · No Comments
The best film of the year that you didn’t hear about (and should have) is Duncan Jones’ sci-fi flick Moon.
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A SERIOUS MAN – the second best film of 2009
January 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments
A Serious Man is one of the most engaging and thought provoking (in its own oblique way) films of the year.
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Traitor
August 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments
If you enjoy being smothered to death with a pillow, then Traitor is the movie for you. Ostensibly a thriller about an American Muslim who has gone deep undercover into an Islamic terrorist cell, it turns into a case study for the failure of good intentions.
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The film follows Samir (Don Cheadle), a vagabond [...]
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Man On Wire
August 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Man On Wire is the exhilarating re-telling of Philippe Petit’s high-wire walk between the two towers of the newly constructed World Trade Center in 1974. Carefully constructed from interviews, archive footage, and Errol Morris worthy re-creations, director James Marsh weaves a dazzling narrative that inspires awe, amazement, and wonder.
Frenchman Philippe Petit is a hyperactive Frenchman [...]
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Pineapple Express
August 9th, 2008 · No Comments
By Aaron Shay
Today is that day, gentle reader. Today is the day I write of my cinematic disappointment.
Stoner films have a proud history, though not a credited or cultured one. Cheech and Chong are the collective Orson Welles of marijuana films, giving one an idea of the quality stoner films aspire [...]
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Tropic Thunder
August 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Never Go Full-Retard: A Review of Tropic Thunder
By Aaron J. Shay
My history with Ben Stiller is as follows:
Being exposed repeatedly to “Keeping the Faith†at Jewish Sunday school when they didn’t have anything for us to learn. Decent movie, at least for the first [...]
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The Dark Knight
July 28th, 2008 · No Comments
When it comes to the movies, is there such a thing as too big? With the inflation of expectations and ticket prices, audiences are demanding more from their movies than ever before. We want spectacle and quality; we want to be dazzled by the fantastic and touched with real emotion; we want movies to make [...]
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