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The secret world of Arrietty
The Secret World of Arrietty
Voices by Bridgit Mendler, Amy Poehler and Will Arnett
Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi
It’s commonly accepted among the film literate that this is the year of living in the past. What else could it be? The frontrunner for a Best Picture Oscar is a silent movie for crying out loud (or not crying out loud, as the case may be). Can flagpole-sitting and the Charleston be far behind? While the conventional wisdom has reached this conclusion, it hasn't established what the ... more >
Salmon Fishing In the Yemen
Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt and Amr Waked
Directed by Lasse Hallström
How long can any film review go before calling Salmon Fishing in Yemen a fish out of water story? Not to mention that the film stars Emily Blunt and her prominent lips. Every time Ewan McGregor’s Scottish fish expert looks at mackerel, he must think of her. The man who took over Obi-Wan Kenobi becomes a new Dr. Jones, taking on an impossible mission of faith in Arabia. At one point, he even ... more >
The Innkeepers
Sara Paxton, Pat Healy and Kelly McGillis
Directed by Ti West
Director Ti West's feature debut, “The House of the Devil” (2009), was a deftly executed homage to both classic haunted house flicks and the great female-centered horror films of the sixties and seventies (particularly Rosemary's Baby, 1968). Fanatically aware of the conventions of the genre, its titles were ever lovingly rendered in a classic seventies burnt-orange which matched the ... more >
COMING SOON: Detachment
Bryan Cranston, Adrien Brody and Christina Hendricks
Directed by Tony Kaye
Last year's Tribeca Film Festival was abuzz over Detachment, a new film directed by Tony Kaye and starring Adrien Brody. Kay broke ground with American History X and took an impartial look at abortion in the documentary Lake of Fire. He heads back to the classroom in this feature narrative--headed for a March release--about an emotionally-distant substitute teacher in a struggling ... more >
Haywire
Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor and Michael Douglas
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
“Judy, Judy,” Jimmy Stewart famously told Kim Novak in Vertigo, as he forced her to change her appearance to that of his dead lover. “It can’t make that much difference to you.” This was Alfred Hitchcock’s most famous and revealing line in his 1958 classic, a meditation on the male gaze. I thought of it when I read about Haywire’s post-production. Director Steven Soderbergh ... more >
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