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‘Fargo’ 3.01 Recap: “I Ain’t Gonna Lie, It Didn’t Go Smooth”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 12:00:16 +0000

Noah Hawley has been a pretty busy guy this year. In addition to creating and launching the supremely weird superhero drama ‘Legion‘ a few months ago, Hawley’s fascinating and often hilarious spinoff of the Coen brothers’ ‘Fargo’ returns for its third season on FX. Is the show off to a good start so far? You...

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‘Anomalisa’ Review: Depressingly Moving, Deceptively Hilarious

Philip Brown — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 17:00:40 +0000

After the self-consciously sprawling and all-encompassing ambition of his directorial debut ‘Synecdoche, New York, it probably wasn’t too surprising that Charlie Kaufman disappeared for a while. After all, when you’ve made a movie that seems to be about everything, it can’t be easy to narrow in on subject matter for your follow-up. It’s also probably...

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‘Macbeth’ (2015) Review: Game of Shakespeare

Philip Brown — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 20:00:38 +0000

Of all of William Shakespeare’s beloved works, few translate to the screen as well as ‘Macbeth’. It helps that the play was one the Bard’s shortest and it’s also the closest thing Shakespeare ever came to delivering an exploitation movie. The best cinematic adaptations of the tale have come from filmmakers working halfway between art...

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‘Legend’ (2015) Review: A Tale of Two Hardys

Philip Brown — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 14:00:09 +0000

There have been so many gangster movies at this point that the only way to make an entry in the genre appealing is through some sort of stunt. ‘Black Mass’ recently rescued Johnny Depp from his mountain of scarves to give him an actual human to play, and now comes Brian Helgeland’s ‘Legend’, which doubles...

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TIFF Journal: ‘Anomalisa’

Philip Brown — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:00:16 +0000

It’s been a long, tough seven-year wait for Charlie Kaufman to follow up his directorial debut. There’s no one else out there who can match the morbid wit and surreal emotional honesty of the ‘Being John Malkovich’ writer at his best. Thankfully, now that Kaufman has finally returned, he’s done so with a rather extraordinary...

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TIFF Journal: ‘Legend’

Philip Brown — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 17:00:12 +0000

The big question at the end of ‘Legend’ is just how much an impact can a single actor have on the overall result of a movie. For the most part, Brian Helgeland’s take on the notorious London gangsters the Kray brothers is fairly average. However, at the center of it is a pretty damn remarkable...

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TIFF Journal: ‘The Lady’

Josh Zyber — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:00:47 +0000

French action maestro Luc Besson teams up with Asian action superstar Michelle Yeoh for a new movie? That sounds like an inspired pairing. Wait, the movie is a formulaic historical bio-pic without any action at all? Well, that’s a whole lot less interesting already. Even the title ‘The Lady’ is pretty generic and nondescript. Sadly,...

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Blu-ray Highlights for 7/12/11 – Return I Will to Old ‘Brazil’

Josh Zyber — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:00:15 +0000

Yes, it’s another slow summer week for new Blu-ray releases. Even the title I’ve most eagerly awaited appears to have arrived on the format in a compromised form. Will I be able to resist buying it anyway? Honestly, probably not. Here’s the week’s release slate, including titles that street on Friday: ‘Arthur (2011)‘ (Warner Brothers...

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