Author: Jack Giroux
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The 9 Must See Movies of March 2014
March may not be the most wonderful time of the year, but this year it’s a pretty wonderful 31-day span. There’s a Wes Anderson movie,…
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‘Non-Stop’ Director Jaume Collet-Serra is The Modern B-Movie Hitchcock We Need
‘Non-Stop’ Director Jaume Collet-Serra is The Modern B-Movie Hitchcock We Need Some commercial directors are not filmmakers. They may be able to craft a few pretty…
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Why McG is a Progressive Filmmaker
Imagine a med student with orange dreadlocks down to his ass during the early 1990s. Do you have that horrifying mental image yet? Any takers…
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‘3 Days to Kill’ Review: McG Gets One Right With the Help of Kevin Costner and Amber Heard
14 years ago McG successfully transitioned from music videos to film with Charlie’s Angels, but his films that followed varied in quality. For the most…
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How Organic Gardening Brought Bill Murray Out of Acting Retirement
Following his performance in 2005’s ‘Broken Flowers,’ the iconic actor decided to call it quits.
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For The Monumental John Goodman, A Hard-Working Lucky Streak
The past few years have been kind to John Goodman: Monsters University was a worthy followup to Monsters Inc.; Inside Llewyn Davis was the best…
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‘The Monuments Men’ Review: Nazis In Search Of Art Worth Stealing Will Find Nothing Of Interest Here
George Clooney is an undervalued filmmaker. With Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Clooney showed he was the real deal behind the camera. He followed that,…
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The 5 Must See Movies of February 2014
I, Frankenstein sure was something, eh? Why that movie wasn’t a bigger hit is beyond comprehension, but like most works of unheralded beauty, it will…
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Impervious to Fear: A Special Q&A with Director Michael Mann
Michael Mann’s Thief is like a ticking-clock thriller without an actual ticking clock. Frank (James Caan) is in a rush to make up for lost…