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HERO meets his match
Hero is not your ordinary Chinese martial art film. It is a visual masterpiece that uses color to communicate the film’s emotion to audiences. Jet Li stars as the nameless hero that attempts to...
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Adam and Dog is a friendly film
Adam and Dog is an Oscar nominated animated short that puts a playful canine into the Book of Genesis. The dog explores the Garden of Eden, until he meets Adam alone in the forest. The first man makes...
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Fresh Guacamole serves up a delicious short
Fresh Guacamole slices and dices up a recipe that uses stop motion as its main ingredient for success. PES aka Adam Pesapane’s Academy Award nominated Animated Short serves up a delicious film that...
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Head over Heels (short film)
Timothy Reckart’s stop motion animated short, Head over Heels is an unusual film about a couple that has grown apart. Literally, the wife lives on the ceiling and the husband lives on the floor of...
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The Sessions is a love poem for living life
The Sessions was one of the best film of 2012. I am still smarting from Helen Hunt not winning best supporting actress honors and John Hawkes brave performance being ignored all together....
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Lincoln passes the bill
Director Steven Spielberg takes on the enormous task of dramatizing President Abraham Lincoln’s quest to pass the Thirteenth Amendment through the House of Representatives. He employs Tony Kushner to...
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Silver Linings Playbook scores
After a brief stint in a mental institution, Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) moves back in with his parents (Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver) to reconcile with his wife. Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer...
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Life of Pi
Ang Lee has done something most directors are incapable of doing. He took one of the popular and beloved books and turned it into an amazing film. The film, Life of Pi does the original source...
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Young Frankenstein is a much different monster
Rarely can parodies transfer meaning from one generation to the next, but director Mel Brooks with the help of comedic actor Gene Wilder create one of the funniest films of all time. The 1974 film,...
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The Impossible is an emotional journey
The Impossible is based on a true story about a family caught in the middle of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami devastation. Director Juan Bayona’s storytelling brings this unreal event to a perspective...
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Sleepy Hollow is lost in a Grimm-like fairy tale
Director Tim Burton’s imagination takes Washington Irving’s remarkable short story, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and changes the tale to fit his aesthetic leanings, but that is no surprise because...
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The Truman Show is the master template for popular entertainment today
The Truman Show is easily one of the most original ideas to emerge from Hollywood in the late 1990s. At the time, reality TV and manufactured amateur celebrities were in its infancy stages. Fifteen...
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Into the Wild captures the spirit
Sean Penn waited nearly a decade to make the film about a driven young man’s desire to abandon his comfortable, civilized world and embark on an adventure that would lead him to the Alaskan...
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On the Waterfront contends for best all time
Marlon Brando is a heavyweight actor that delivers a championship caliber performance that paved the way for actors to see the perfect execution of “the method.” Elia Kazan directs this masterpiece...
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The Prestige is an underrated film
Christopher Nolan has been known to trick and challenge his audiences to think, but he explores new ground in the underrated film, The Prestige. Two magicians Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred...
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Requiem for a Dream is a hard truth
Requiem for a Dream consumes your mind, body and soul like a drug and holds onto to you after the final credits are over. Your skin feels like something is crawling on you, but nothing is there. It is...
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Breaking Away does nothing for me
Obviously, life was much different in 1979 when Breaking Away was filmed because I was shocked to learn it won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and was nominated for Best Picture. Even...
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