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X-Men: First Class

Marvel has always irked me somewhat as a comic book imprint. Focusing largely on allegories such as segregation or simple teenage angst, its ability to offer continually inventive character evolutions has left me cold. Bar a few standout characters, I’ve never warmed to the overall style of storytelling they continually resort to. Be that as [ READ MORE ]

2 Days in Paris

Threading on familiar ground with her second writer/director credit, Julie Delpy’s “2 Days in Paris” is just reminiscent enough of the Richard Linklater “Sunrise/Sunset” series whilst avoiding the pitfalls of rehashed material. 35 year old eccentric couple Marion (Deply) and Jack (Adam Goldberg) pass through Paris after a decidedly unromantic trip to Venice. Marion must [ READ MORE ]

The Kids Are Alright

Positioning itself simply as any other family dramedy, Lisa Cholodenko’s third significant directorial outing goes to great lengths to create a self-superior attitude in order to mask its deeply neurotic and insecure base. Married lesbian couple Jules (Julianne Moore), a failed architect turned landscape gardener and Nic (Annette Bening), an obstetrician have each conceived a [ READ MORE ]

The King’s Speech

As awards season moves closer and closer to nominations and the inevitable big events that we both deride and celebrate in equal measure, it falls on the studio to push the last of the hopefuls before the deadline approaches, hoping that they might grasp a nomination of some sort. This drive to get nominations can [ READ MORE ]

Tron: Legacy

Not a day goes by without some news of a reinvented franchise or another addition to an already existing mythos, yet when Disney announced that they would be producing a follow-up to the (for its time) technologically advanced Tron, I wasn’t quite sure what to think. Even putting myself in the mindset of one who [ READ MORE ]

Network

Often with satire there exists a thin line between that which is too subtle and borders on undeveloped and pushing something too far. With regards movies, both can be seamlessly and beautifully amalgamated into one creature, a difficult taskmaster in and of itself, but another interesting instance is where the boundaries of reason are truly [ READ MORE ]

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Whether it’s Darjeeling, Tenenbaums or Life Aquatic, Wes Anderson has always been driven by family, or more specifically parent/child dynamics. With each movie, the characters’ collective development became progressively more childlike and ultimately tiring to a large extent. Yet by actually crafting a beloved Roald Dahl book into a children’s movie might just have saved [ READ MORE ]

The Apartment

Often times a classic of the silver screen will not hold up as well to criticism due to large social changes that have taken place since it’s inception, Billy Wilder’s “The Apartment” being a case in point. C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is a lowly office drone for an insurance company in “Mad Men” era Manhattan. [ READ MORE ]

Being There

Perhaps Seller’s greatest role in my mind, Being There tells a story oddly reminiscent of Forrest Gump that followed some time later. Apparently simple-minded Chance (Peter Sellers) has lived his entire life cut off from the outside world, tending the guardian of the “old man” who has recently passed on. Evicted from his former home, [ READ MORE ]

Ghost Rider

Marvel has a checkered past with film adaptations of its back catalogue, often adding nothing new to characters beloved by its existing fanbase. While one can reason that extending their scope to those outside of that class would ultimately help their viability and continual evolution, Ghost Rider has nothing to distinctly define itself from other [ READ MORE ]

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