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History Boys: The Brilliant British Lads Of ‘Theory,’‘Pride’&‘Imitation’
It happens every year. That handsomely produced movie, often British, usually a period piece. It’s a perfectly fine film — unchallenging, uncomplicated, more or less forgettable. It has the right...
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America’s ‘Most Violent': Chandor Explores The Price Of Prosperity
You don’t make a movie about Wall Street in 2011 unless you’re saying something about what’s going down in America. J.C. Chandor did that with the gripping drama Margin Call, taking us inside the...
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Into The Woods: ‘Looking’ Season Two Premiere // “Looking For The Promised Land”
It’s been nearly a year since Patrick, Dom, and Augustin signed off on us, and now they’re back, taking a relaxing weekend getaway to the woods. But watch out, boys! These woods are full of bears! And...
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‘Selma’& Louie Z: Awards Season’s Historical Heavyweights
Some films are great. Some films are Important. Some are both, some are neither. Many are one, attempting to be the other. This time of year always unleashes at least one major release about a...
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The Tens: Best Of Film 2014
It was a very good year at the movies… but a weird one. Reversing the trend of recent years, the summer blockbuster fare offered a surprising amount of good taste, from the goofy-fun Guardians Of The...
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The Not-Oscars 2014
Once again, it’s Oscar time. This year’s race is gearing up to be one of the least predictable in recent memory. For every race that has an all-but-guaranteed winner (Julianne Moore, Best Actress; J.K....
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Hard.in.the.City’s 2015 Oscars Drinking Game
No, Academy Awards drinking games are nothing new or novel, and yes, every other more reputable pop culture website has already posted one. But if I’m going to be watching the Oscars, and I’m going to...
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R.e.X. featuring Lana Lovesit // “B.O.M.D. (Bitches On My Dick)”
* Bitches, dick, Jack Daniels, and Jurassic Park references, all rolled into one. * *
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The Tens: Best Of Film 2007
My Top 10 for the year 2007 comes to you from the midst of the WGA Writer’s Strike of 2007-2008, when there was some doubt about whether or not a typical Oscar telecast would even be possible without...
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There And Back Again: The Sound, Fury & Nothingness Of ‘Mad Max’
I’m tempted to post my review of Mad Max: Fury Road as a series of questions that popped into my head while watching it, but I won’t do that. It’s an early summer blockbuster that is being hailed by...
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The Tens: Best Of Film 2006
Continuing my retroactive Top 10 lists, this one takes us back to 2006, originally published in my “Confessions of a Dangerous Film Student” column in INsite Boston. “Black Gold: Darkness Reigns During...
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The Tens: Best Of Film 2005
(A “Then & Now” perspective.) This Top 10 is actually a 20, because sometimes ten just isn’t enough. Actually, it’s because that’s how I wrote it back when it was originally published a decade...
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Male Enhancement: ‘XXL’ Doubles The Pleasure Of The First ‘Magic Mike’
If you’d told me before the fact that a movie about male strippers starring Matthew McConaughey and Channing Tatum would have been amongst my top five films of 2012, I may not have believed you, except...
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‘Tangerine’ Is The New Black: Independent Spirit Moves To The iPhone
These days, the state of the film industry can be disheartening. Studios are focused almost exclusively on franchises, reboots, and colossally expensive tentpole releases. Mid-budget movies have gone...
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Generation ‘Jest': The Infinite Sadness Of The Nineties Reaches ‘The End Of...
Few artists reach the literary legend status David Foster Wallace did — and fewer still do it with, essentially, one work. Many who do die tragically young. Perhaps there are certain eras more likely...
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The Tens: Best Of Film 2004
(A “Then & Now” perspective.) Like my 2005 list, this Top Ten comes at you twenty strong, because that’s how I wrote it back in the day on my LiveJournal. And like last time, I’ll be adding my...
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The Tens: Best Of Film 2003
(A Then & Now perspective.) The further back I go in time, the less secure I am in my Top Ten choices. That’s largely because I haven’t seen all these movies again since, and I have no idea how,...
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Love In The East: The Season Two Debut Of ‘EastSiders’
For anyone going through Looking withdrawals since HBO cancelled their low-rated gay series, the internet now has your methadone. Season Two of EastSiders just made its Vimeo debut. Seeing as it takes...
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Girl, Mistress, Queen: A Female-Centric Summer At The Arthouse
Movies these days tend to be events. Even the smaller ones are often given the royal treatment, when it comes from a beloved, established filmmaker. Noam Baumbach is certainly one of those, yet he’s...
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‘Walk’& Talk: Zemeckis (Almost) Pulls Off A Chatty High-Wire Heist
It seems exactly enough time has passed to allow for a film that prominently features New York City’s fallen World Trade Center without any explicit reference to September 11. Though Joseph...
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