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MESRINE: PUBLIC ENEMY #1

By | November 2012

The two films combined serve to make a powerful epic that rates amongst the best crime films ever made. It is too early to tell if it will be considered a “classic,” but it seems like this is a shoe-in to that club…

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MESRINE: PUBLIC ENEMY #1

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Vincent Cassel continues his role as Jacques Mesrine, a French gangster with a large public following and a bit of an ego to match.  Had social media...

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PUSHING HIS LUCK: INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER LUIS PRIETO

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Luis Prieto’s “Pusher” will encourage you to pay off your Master Card… pronto. An English-language re-make of Nicholas Winding Refn’s 1996 Danish...

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MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT

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Vincent Cassel is Mesrine, a one-time soldier and big-time gangster in this film based on a biography written by the title’s namesake.  It is a brutal,...

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SIFF 2012: SEASONAL AFFECTIVE CINEMA, PART 4

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The 2012 Seattle International Film Festival, a magical, mind-expanding, eye-feeding carpet ride for those fond of falling deep into moving-picture...

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HEADHUNTERS

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Calling all flick-freaks who share a venomous contempt for arrogant yuppie scum! “Headhunters,” Morten Tyldum’s Norwegian nerve-jangler, is cause for...

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ELITE SQUAD: THE ENEMY WITHIN

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CPT Nascimento (Wagner Moura), baby-faced Commander of a brutal Brazilian cop squad called the BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion), makes Batman...

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POINT BLANK

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BOOM!  “Point Blank” will shoot you from a cannon, and you won’t hit the ground until its closing credits. Your jowls will ripple from the forward...

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I SAW THE DEVIL

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A woman’s broken body being dragged through stark-white snow. A human head rolling along a river-bottom, its raven hair swirling with the tides. The...

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THE SICILIAN GIRL

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Rita (Veronica D'Agostino) is a little girl who idolizes her father, as does the rest of her Italian village. Her mother doesn't like her, and never will,...

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SHOOT THE HERO!

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Two radically different stories come together in this action/romance/comedy from Christian Sesma, and while you will be surprised by a few things, the...

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