Author: Jack Giroux
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‘Passion’ Review: Brian De Palma’s Latest Is A Nifty Cinematic Trick
‘Passion’ Review: Brian De Palma’s Latest Is A Nifty Cinematic Trick The past few years haven’t been Brian De Palma’s finest time as a filmmaker.…
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Director Wayne Kramer Explains How to Get A Movie Greenlit Immediately
Director Wayne Kramer Explains How to Get A Movie Greenlit Immediately The Movie Gods haven’t been gentle to Wayne Kramer the past few years. After…
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‘Closed Circuit’ Star Eric Bana Talks Movies Hijacked For Political Reasons
A few nights ago, because I’m a rather busy man, I spent three hours revisiting the 2004 Cannes Film Festival gem, Troy. That’s the Wolfgang…
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‘Scenic Route’ Star Josh Duhamel On The Rejections and Failures of Hollywood
‘Scenic Route’ Star Josh Duhamel On The Rejections and Failures of Hollywood A few years ago, Josh Duhamel discussed his desire to broach darker material.…
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‘The Frozen Ground’ Review: Watch As So Much Potential Melts Into Mediocrity
Director Scott Walker’s The Frozen Ground is the kind of thriller your conservative grandmother loves. It’s all around safe and plain, simple and to the…
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Interview: Edgar Wright Explains How to Drunkenly End the World
The World’s End closes out The Cornetto Trilogy with a bang. With Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and this apocalyptic bar crawl comedy, director…
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‘Aint Them Bodies Saints’ Director David Lowery Talks the Quiet After the Explosion
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints isn’t a Terrence Malick knockoff. Whenever a movie has beautiful landscape shots or characters talking with a musical quality, Malick’s name…
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How The Violence in ‘Kick-Ass’ Challenged Comic Book Movies
When Kick-Ass hit theaters in 2010, it tainted comic book movies for me. Bringing a sense of gore and grit to escapism, it would come…
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Director Jeff Wadlow Takes ‘Kick-Ass 2’ To New Extremes
Director Jeff Wadlow Takes ‘Kick-Ass 2’ To New Extremes “So, tell me, Jeff, what’s it like to work with Jim Carrey?” I might as well just…