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‘The Shape of Water’ Review: Amelie Meets the Creature from the Black Lagoon

Philip Brown — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 20:00:10 +0000

Guillermo del Toro’s latest film is a stunning achievement and easily one of his finest works. At once a profoundly personal fairy tale love story and a perversely entertaining monster flick, ‘The Shape of Water’ is destined to be loved by those who live their lives and find their loves on the fringes. Sally Hawkins...

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TIFF Journal: ‘The Shape of Water’

Philip Brown — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 18:00:20 +0000

Throughout his strange career, Guillermo del Toro has made it a mission to fuse horror and fairy tales until they become indistinguishable. The guy has done a remarkable job weaving those dreams together so far, but something about his latest feature ‘The Shape of Water’ feels even more special. Fully embracing his latent whimsy while...

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Now Playing: Dumbed ‘Down’

Luke Hickman — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:00:40 +0000

With the exception of his last film, the unlikely departure ‘Anonymous‘, when you go into a Roland Emmerich movie, you know to only expect two things: Explosions and shoot-outs. As long as that’s all you expect from ‘White House Down’, you might enjoy it. Channing Tatum leads this large cast as ex-military man John Cale,...

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Now Playing: ‘Killing Them’ with Politics

Aaron Peck — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:00:15 +0000

Honestly, I don’t know if I liked ‘Killing Them Softly’. It’s a difficult movie to quantify. It made me think well after exiting the theater, but I still don’t know how I felt about it. Andrew Dominik’s ‘Killing Them Softly’ is a gangster movie set against the backdrop of the 2008 election. Obama’s promises of...

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Sundance Journal: ‘Liberal Arts’

Aaron Peck — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:00:34 +0000

‘How I Met Your Mother’ star Josh Radnor made his directorial debut at Sundance last year with ‘happythankyoumoreplease‘. He’s back this year with a more mature, more refined effort, ‘Liberal Arts’. Coming-of-age stories are a dime a dozen at film festivals. With that said, I’ve never seen a coming-of-age movie quite like ‘Liberal Arts’. It...

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Now Playing: Fear and Loathing in Puerto Rico

Luke Hickman — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:00:17 +0000

Based on the trailer, you’d probably expect ‘The Rum Diary’ to be little more than ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas‘ with some new scenery and the drugs swapped out for alcohol. While there are definitely similarities between the two, ‘The Rum Diary’ is (somewhat) more driven by plot than random actions, which makes it...

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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Character Actors

Josh Zyber — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:00:56 +0000

Our readers (that’d be you) responded pretty favorably to last week’s Roundtable topic on the subject of bad actors who should be forcibly retired from the acting profession. Now, let’s flip that around and try to focus on the positive. For this week’s topic, we’re calling out some of our favorite actors – but not...

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