Author: Scott Beggs
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For ‘Over Your Dead Body,’ Both Takashi Miikes Make a Movie Together
Toei Company It’s always exciting when Takashi Miike releases a new movie – something that happens approximately 19 times per year. The guy is a…
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‘In Order of Disappearance’ is a Norwegian ‘Fargo’ with More Snow
Chrysalis Films In 2010, Stellan Skarsgård teamed for a third time with director Hans Petter Moland to make a sunshiny film about a gangster getting…
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‘The Look of Silence’ May Be The Most Important Movie of Next Year
Drafthouse Films My neighbors were children when Hitler ruled Germany, gifted innocence by virtue of being born late enough but damned to the fallout of…
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‘The Tale of Princess Kaguya’ is Studio Ghibli at Its Sweet, Epic Best
Studio Ghibli One of the most impressive things about The Tale of Princess Kaguya is its dual nature as a delicate epic and a powerful…
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‘V/H/S Viral’ is Good and Bad But Mostly Ugh
8383 Productions In an ideal world, this would be a review of a Nacho Vigalondo short film that gets to praise simple sci-fi that gradually…
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Christoph Waltz Merges With The Infinite in This Beautiful ‘Zero Theorem’ Poster
Amplify It’s virtually impossible to recognize Terry Gilliam’s Zero Theorem as anything but a spiritual sequel to Brazil. It’s a similar story of a corporate…
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Let’s All Play ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Plot Mad Libs
Disney/Marvel How about that Avengers: Age of Ultron plot synopsis, eh? Shockingly generic? Yes it is. They might as well have said, “The Avengers are…
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If You Love ‘The Hunger Games,’ The ‘Mockingjay’ Trailer Will Destroy You
Lionsgate Near the opening of the trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss points out that she didn’t set out to cause massive…
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Required Reading: Marilyn Monroe’s Dress and Edith Beale’s Beauty
Twentieth Century Fox The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya?…