Category: Reviews
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G – A Gatsby (2002) Film Review
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Read more: G – A Gatsby (2002) Film ReviewThe Great Gatsby is the first film adaptation of The Great Gatsby to avoid the pitfall of trying to make Fitzgerald tell the story rather than telling the story.
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The Purge
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Read more: The PurgeOwing a heavy debt to the action satire of John Carpenter’s golden decade, The Purge depicts a post-revolutionary America in 2022.
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The Great Gatsby (2000)
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Read more: The Great Gatsby (2000)This is a bland cup of treacle, isn’t it? The perfect thing for soulless high school English teachers to serve upon those hapless youth that they wish to instill with a fear of reading.
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Beautiful Creatures (2013)
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Read more: Beautiful Creatures (2013)What the fuck happened to Jeremy Irons?
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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
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Read more: On Her Majesty’s Secret ServiceBond is pursued by anonymous thugs. His service weapon is stolen. The crane depot has a midget custodian. Bond ruins a calendar.
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Mud
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Read more: MudThe mark of maturity is the realization that everyone has a moment to lie, but also that the moment of deceit is not necessarily the mark of constant dishonesty.
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The Iceman
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Read more: The IcemanI’d say there’s a couple of reasons why this film won’t do well. The first is because this film conveys all the squalor of the mob life with none of the glamour. The second is,,,
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The Door’s Ray Manzarek: Eulogy for an Organ Player
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Read more: The Door’s Ray Manzarek: Eulogy for an Organ PlayerRay Manzarek is dead, 74 years ain’t bad, but cancer…I’m sorry that’s how he had to go. May that he is infinite now. Ray Manzarek was the songwriter. Morrison was the lyricist. Morrison gave the songs of the Doors the direct empathic heft, the dizzying drop into a fever dream of bohemian revelation. John Densmore…
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Star Trek: Into Darkness
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Read more: Star Trek: Into DarknessThere are many who will complain about Abram’s Trek as being a cold cash grab, which it is, but they miss the point. This is storytelling as it traditionally was. Before copyright monopolized canons…
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The Great Gatsby (1974)
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Read more: The Great Gatsby (1974)The 1974 Gatsby vs. the 2013: Would you rather wince or yawn? Those are your options. One film is engaging but with painful exposition; the other is well acted but as dull as your grandmotherÂs house.