Living Memory by Jack H. Simons and Erigena Sallaku Sometimes a movie comes along that the critics despise, the studio doesn’t promote, the theaters don’t show, and the audience never finds. Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren is such a movie. Released in April, it had practically disappeared from theaters before the 4th of July weekend. […]
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Merely Marvelous by Andrew Collins Writer and director Joss Whedon is in his usual fine form at the helm of Avengers: Age of Ultron, but even his storytelling prowess can’t quite hold the film’s many strands together. Let’s start with an example. Early in the film Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olson), who begins the film as […]
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Master Hustler by Jack Simons A movie comes along from time to time that astounds us with excellence in its individual parts, but when all the parts add together . . . not quite as much. American Hustle is a movie like that. As many times as I watch it, I discover only polished brilliance in […]
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Machina ex Deus by Andrew Collins We live in a time when technology is advancing at a frightening rate – self driving cars, algorithms that write news stories, big data growing at exponential rates. And yet alongside such technological progress, racial tensions still linger to an ugly, frightening degree – as we’ve seen in Ferguson, the […]
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Rage Against the Dying by Andrew Collins “For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled,” writes Carl Sagan in his book The Pale Blue Dot. “Herman Melville, in Moby Dick, spoke for wanderers in all epochs and meridians: ‘I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love […]
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Avatar, With Fewer Blue Aliens by Stephen Simons As I suffer through ten minutes of Pokemon cartoons or watch re-runs of G.I. Joe, Thundercats, and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, a simple truth emerges: Children are easily entertained. And yet, these easily distracted minds can still be captured by the right show, knowing what time it […]
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Man, Scientist, Enigma by Andrew Collins Whenever the silver screen needs a brilliant, troubled, eccentric protagonist, Benedict Cumberbatch will be there to play the part — consider the hit BBC TV series Sherlock, last year’s The Fifth Estate, and now The Imitation Game. In this case he portrays Alan Turing, the World War II-era British mathematician tasked with […]
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Hitchcock Would be Proud by Andrew Collins Locke is the story of one man’s hour-long drive through hell. From the first frame to the last, the camera shows us only Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) in his car as he drives to London, trying to uncross the stars suddenly aligned against him. As a construction contractor, Locke has the […]
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“Why I laugh?” -H. Simpson by Stephen Simons I’m not a Parks and Rec fan. Oops . . . Did you hear that? It was the sound of half the readers of this post suddenly turning hostile. I tried to be a fan. Maybe, only because I watched a YouTube video of Ron Swanson quotes and […]
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Headed for Destruction by James Roland Anthony Buckley found treasure in a dusty Pittsburgh warehouse. His journey spanned two years and three countries as he searched storage areas in New York, London, and Dublin before finally tracking down Wake in Fright, a film that he’d edited forty years before. From a large box labeled “For […]
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