ALBERT NOBBS CHRONICLE TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY IRON LADY RAMPART
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ALBERT NOBBS – Reviewed by Joyce
Albert Nobbs was not my cup of tea, but it could possibly be yours. I’m not a big fan of period pieces, but I thought that by virtue of an incredible performance by Glenn Close, I would transcend my prejudice. Was Close’s performance technically excellent? Yes, probably. She had the accent, the gait, the look, [...]
Read MoreTHE GREY – Reviewed by David
You’d think a movie about Liam Neeson duking it out with wolves in the wild would be exciting. You’d be wrong. Turns out The Grey, a macho but mushy existential survival tale directed by Joe Carnahan, is actually quite a slog — dreary, overly talky and capped by one of those maddeningly ambiguous endings that [...]
Read MoreCHRONICLE – Reviewed by David
In Chronicle we get one of the year’s best films, a fun and cool and awesome piece of lower-budget sci-fi that uses the found footage format, a simple but neat premise and seamless special effects to deftly detail in larger-than-life fashion what I imagine are the horrors of being a bullied teenager today. Dreamed up [...]
Read MoreNORWEGIAN WOOD and MICHAEL – Reviewed by Demetri “a victorious cummerbund made of shrimp” Trailerhitch
A desire to connect makes us human. Deciphering between need and obsession in the search for connection can make us clumsy and hurtful to ourselves and others if not outright cruel and evil.
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HAYWIRE TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL THE DESCENDANTS IRON LADY
Read MoreFOREIGN FILM FEATURE – May 2012
In the mood for something with subtitles? One of these fine new Foreign Film arrivals ought to fit the bill — take a look at the list below, with our recommendations marked with the red stars:
Read MoreUNDERWORLD: AWAKENING – Reviewed by David
Having skipped the prequel Rise of the Lycans, Kate Beckinsale returns to rock skintight leather and kick quite a bit more butt as beautiful bloodsucker Selene in Underworld: Awakening, the slick but strangely spiritless fourth entry in the nearly decade-old vampires-vs-werewolves franchise.
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