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Gladiator II | Review

Eternity and a Day: Scott Rehashes the Dying Embers of an Empire “The movie doesn’t have to be great; it can be stupid and empty...

Origin | Review

Caste of the Unjust: DuVernay’s Scholarly Drama Traces the Universal Social Ills of Hierarchy For her fifth narrative feature, Origin, Ava DuVernay takes an inventive...

Wonder Woman 1984 [Video Review]

Woman, Thou Art Deuced: Jenkins Misfires with Superficial Follow-Up in Ill-Fitting Retro Garb The difficulty in presenting the affect of nostalgia is how reverence for...

Inheritance | Review

Sins of the Father: Stein Mines Elitism in Absurd Melodrama “Does any daughter every really know her father?” is one of several wilting lines of...

Sea Fever | Review

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Hardiman Finds Humanity in the Horror We’ve seen countless films about bands of isolated humans in...

Nymphomaniac: Volume I | Review

The Girl Can’t Help It: Von Trier’s Indelible First Chapter a Sobering, Ruminative Examination of the Last Cinematic Frontier In today’s modern world, where cinematic...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #13. Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Volume I & II

Nymphomaniac: Volume I & II Director: Lars Von Trier Writer: Lars Von Trier Producer: Louise Vesth U.S. Distributor: Magnolia Pictures Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf,...

3 Days to Kill | Review

Days Go By: McG Can’t Find the Beat in Mottled Espionage Drama Now with a handful of brightly lit baubles of films to his name...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #1. Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac

Nymphomaniac Director: Lars von Trier Writer(s): Lars von Trier Producer(s): Zentropa's Louise Vesth & Marie Cecilie Gade U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.