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By Joshua Speiser | March 2018

Of all the film genres, biopics are in many ways the hardest to pull off. A filmmaker has to make a very…

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Of all the film genres, biopics are in many ways the hardest to pull off. A filmmaker has to make a very compelling case for the viewer to watch Jamie...

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Pacific Rim Uprising has a specific audience. If two hours of live-action-anime giant robots (called Jaegers) fighting Godzilla-like monsters (Kaiju)...

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In Planes, Trains, And Automobiles, the brilliant John Hughes comedy, Neal (Steve Martin) has finally had enough of the meek Del (John Candy) and goes on a...

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The life of Iris (Jennifer Prediger) has hit some kind of invisible wall. What little progress being made seems to be of a cyclical nature and, therefore,...

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Chavela Vargas has been described as “the rough voice of tenderness”, a singer who managed to capture the spirit of her culture and articulate life’s...

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Adapting an existing property into a movie offers up a few choice challenges. Chief among them balancing necessary changes due to medium differences versus...

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Writer-director Sally Potter (Orlando, Ginger & Rosa) didn't need more than one hour and eleven minutes to delight us in her stimulating comedy-drama...

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When romance is brought to the silver screen, far too often it becomes ensnared in the pitfall of appearing like a thoughtless carbon copy of every other...

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In the wake of a traumatic event, human beings often adopt a number of behaviors to cope with the suffering they’ve experienced. Some self-medicates with...

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And now a brief diversion into the world of family-friendly films. A detour that takes us to Shifting Gears about a family struggling to survive and stay...

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