Birdman
Birdman 2014’s Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance is a mediation on the urgency and unabashed relentless reach toward fame, that, while once captured and lost, is desperately in search once again. The lead, Riggen Thomson, is a washed-up Hollywood actor, only known for portraying the comic book hero Birdman some twenty-odd
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Joy
Joy is a film which is honest in the portrayal of what it takes to become greatly successful in this world, and how the finish line in the race towards finding success is only the starting line of a different set of complications. It’s enjoyable to see a film that does not pre-suppose its
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
It was obligatory to see the latest Star Wars and in fact it may be said it is disappointingly so. That the culture coerces one to participate in what amounts to nothing but a fantastical reminiscence of the prime movement of the original, which was the exhilarating spark of intriguing the imagination of a
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Mistress America
Mistress America makes the effort to champion the idiosyncratic, making one the equivalent to laudable for the very sake of being original and hence not a follower. This existence occurs despite the natural tendency for material comfort to be had with those who can assimilate well with others; with those who can conform to
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Sling Blade
This is a remarkable creative project by Billy Bob Thornton, who wrote, directed, and starred as a simpleton who has a streak of violence about him. What is terrific about the film is how easy going it appears and how effortless the simple Southern backdrop is to the main plot; a plot which, mind
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The Boys from Brazil
This is an action adventure movie not starring an American lead. It’s quite remarkable that such a product was aloud to see the light of day – indeed it belies the model’s discontinuation in favor of stock masculine puppets like Indiana Jones instead of frail old Jews who sound funny when they say words
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