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Trailer #2: Her
“You’re dating an OS! What’s that like?” While I feel it has been a drip-drip-drip flow of quality releases this fall/Oscar season, easily one of the most anticipated films (along with the new Coen...
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Why I love my World Almanac.
For many, traditional encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs are relics of the past. Yet, despite this, I found that while I was leafing through my 2014 World Almanac, there was a sense of not only...
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“Somewhere Only We Know”
Our own Kurt Halfyard has been mentioning much lately about how crappy the year has been for animation. And he’s right. But perhaps Lily Allen and John Lewis can brighten your holiday spirit a little...
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Cinecast Episode 333 – Russell’s Hustle
Merry Christmas RowThree readers/listeners! Here’s a time-lined episode of the Cinecast in your digital stocking to tide you over this holly day. As if you needed something to tide you over – you’ve...
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My Movie Moments of 2013
. Though I didn’t keep very good track throughout the past 12 months, I think I’ve cobbled together some of my favourite moments from 2013′s films as well as some older movies I saw for the first...
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DVD Review: Frances Ha
Director: Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg, Kicking and Screaming) Screenplay: Noah Baumbach, Gerta Gerwig Starring: Gerta Gerwig, Grace Gummer, Adam Driver 2013 This review is for the...
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Adam Sandler Finally Doing It Correctly
With my recent viewing of Grown-Ups 2, it sparked the same old conversation in which we try and fathom why Sandler keeps trying to ruin his career/life with these God awful comedies. He’s so great...
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DGA Nominees
And then there were five. The Director’s Guild of America has posted their five nominees for outstanding achievement in directing. Alfonso Cuarón | Gravity Paul Greengrass | Captain Phillips Steve...
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Book Review: The Who’s Who of Doctor Who
I‘m always in search of a good coffee table book. History, politics, nature, pop culture, food, beer – you name it, I’ve got a coffee table book for it. The perfect coffee table book is one that can...
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The Devil Inside, Hell all Around
One of the worst things that can happen in your life is losing the power to control it and to make it in your own way. You may think that you live your life as you plan it, but what if someone else has...
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SAG Awards for 2013
Screen Actors Guild handed out some awards to a few of its own over the weekend. Pretty standard stuff actually. Watch for the Oscars to go pretty much the same way in the acting department. Winners...
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Canadian film is dying. Is there hope for the future?
The rumblings have been growing for a decade but over the last few years they have become deafening screams: the movie industry is in flux. Some say it’s in trouble but when studios are raking in...
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Trailer: A Long Way Down
Author Nick Hornby is no stranger to Hollywood. High Fidelity, About a Boy, and Fever Pitch have all been adapted to the big screen over the years – the first of which is a classic, as far as I’m...
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Can the allegations against Woody Allen continue to be dismissed?
[W]hen I was seven years old, Woody Allen took me by the hand and led me into a dim, closet-like attic on the second floor of our house. He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s...
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DVD Review: “Querelle”
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Burkhard Driest Producers: Michael McLernon, Dieter Schidor, Sam Waynberg Starring: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau,...
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Blind Spots: The Goonies
When I posted on Facebook and Twitter that I was currently watching The Goonies for the first time, the incredulity was palpable. I’m not particularly well-versed in the ’80s films that my generation...
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Trailer: The Drop
It’s tough to watch the trailer for The Drop and not feel pangs of sadness knowing that it’ll be the last time we see James Gandolfini in a new film. Beyond the sadness, their is definitely excitement...
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Trailer: Clouds of Sils Maria
Currently competing for the Palm D’or at this years Cannes, Olivier Assayas’s aging actress drama The Clouds of Sils Maria features the varied all-female cast of Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart and...
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Film Studies Job Interview: Select One Film From Each Decade
Let’s play make-believe. One day, you arrive home from your deadbeat career to discover a mysterious letter postmarked from a prestigious local high school. In the envelope stands a job opportunity:...
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Tom Hanks did a thing with Carly Rae Jepsen. - Row Three
I‘m not sure how it happened, I’m not sure why it happened… but whatever the case, watching Tom Hanks strolling down the street while dancing and singing bubblegum pop music is a glorious sight to...
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No, We Are Not Doing An April Fools Joke This Year. - Row Three
Sorry to disappoint nobody, John Oliver makes a good cast against this sort of thing. Instead, here is the first still from Waltz With Bashir & The Congress director Ari Folman’s upcoming animated...
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David Fincher’s Seven @ 20. - General Ramblings
True story: I went out for my very first date with my wife back in September 1995 to see a movie where Morgan Freeman and the up and coming movie star, Brad Pitt, track down a serial killer. My wife...
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Roy Batty @ 0 - General Ramblings
A happy birthday, literally, to Nexus-6 replicant Roy Batty, who on this day in 2016, came into existence (however that is done) in the fictional universe of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (which, by the...
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List: ‘Best Picture’ Oscar versus ‘Significant Cultural Value’ - General...
After skipping this years Academy Awards last weekend, but nonetheless reading a lot about them online the next day, I started thinking about how much I enjoyed Spotlight (it’s fantastic), but also...
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Leon Kowalski @ 0
“Describe in single words. Only the good things that come to your mind. About your mother.” “My mother… I’ll tell you about my mother.” The Nexus-6 replicant (Combat/Loader model) who had an itch he...
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