by Joseph A. Hazani October 25, 2015
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 like “when”. Nevertheless it is a bit like the Da Vinci Code in....
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by Joseph A. Hazani October 19, 2015
It is quite astounding how transiently obsessed the culture is with a corporate figure. There is more sensationalism around Steve Jobs than assuredly any corporate titan in history. And that must never be forgotten – he was a corporate man. Perhaps that is what makes him so mythological. That a creative being was able to make it and cut through the typical red-taped....
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by Joseph A. Hazani October 18, 2015
Survival horror as a film genre is redundant. For all horror films manifest themselves by pressing a bloody weapon or fang onto the pressure point of the anxiety of surviving life. It is humorous in a way to step back and think that man, as a beast of prey, has no higher animal to stalk and hunt it, and so he has to make up such scenarios in his imagination in order feel alive. Yet....
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