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Last Night in Soho | Review

Profondo Glosso: Wright Falters with Glossy, Pseudo-Feminist Ghost Story Opening upon joyful musical reverie and descending into vibrant color palettes, Edgar Wright’s attempt at...

Criterion Collection: Teorema (1968) | Blu-ray Review

“Whatever the bourgeois do is wrong?” is a question posited in the flurried opening segment of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s arcane arthouse classic Teorema, a...

Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children | Review

Let’s Do the Time Loop Again: Burton’s Back with Another Belabored Children’s Fantasy The time has long since passed when Tim Burton was able to...

The Sicilian (Director’s Cut) | Blu-Ray Review

Conversations on the intense and onerous auteur Michael Cimino tend to target his earlier career, particularly his iconic sophomore film The Deer Hunter (1978)...

Big Eyes | Review

Soul Windows: Burton Returns to the Biopic with Flagging Interest Long judged as a director clearly intent on recycling the same motif, themes, and...

The Art of the Steal | Review

Art Bitch: Sobol Turns to the Dependable Heist Drama with Mixed Results Flying in on the feathery laurels of Kurt Russell (once again donning a...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #91. Tim Burton’s Big Eyes

Big Eyes Director: Tim Burton Writers: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski Producers: Scott Alexander, Tim Burton, Lynette Howell, Larry Karaszewski U.S. Distributor: The Weinstein Co. Cast: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz,...

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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.