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It’s Okay to be Unpopular: Hal Hartley, The Deadpan Tragedian
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NED RIFLE is quirky, damn funny, and may well break your heart
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NED RIFLE is quirky, damn funny, and may well break your heart
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"This epic 10-year odyssey only exists by the grace of God and a T1 line "-- Patrick O'Brien
Hugh Grant quietly pedals through traffic in Vin Diesel’s muscle-car world
"I can tell you one thing that is truly unique to Middle Village: its sweetness."
Life of Crime, a minor 2014 release that was dropped into a few theaters the same day it appeared on Video on Demand, arrives unheralded on pay-television this month on the Starz Network.
“Maybe it’s the roofie talking, but this is really fun.”
If that “clever” dialogue doesn't bring back fond memories of The Thomas Crown Affair, To Catch a Thief, The Sting, or the indelible Charade, you may find yourself, like me, perhaps unnecessarily hostile towards the minor, midly engaging Focus, the slick but empty new Long-Con entertainment from Will Smith, who has been riding on the coattails of bygone triumphs for a fairly uneventful half-decade.
One can see what drew legendary Al Pacino to the role of Simon Axler, an aging actor crippled by increasing dementia, suffocating insecurity and total narcissism; don't worry, it's a comedy!
De Niro, Cage, Cusack, Kidman and the Economic Realities of the New Hollywood. (Or why exhausted parents sometimes have all the cinematic fun!)
While New York film fanatics enjoy the crisp autumn weather, stepping out to revel in the just-begun 51st annual New York Film Festival, where features by Spike Jonze, Ben Stiller, Claire Denis, and Agnieszka Holland premiere, or perhaps head to the Film Forum or the Kew Gardens Cinema to check out the Salinger documentary or catch up with Woody Allen’s latest, I myself, a veritable shut in due to finances and children, will curate my own film festival. The slate? Made up of pictures you’ve likely never heard of and without doubt never seen. My home team will include actors such as Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, Julianne Moore, Samuel Jackson, Sigourney Weaver, Val Kilmer, Robert De Niro, Aaron Eckhart, Nicole Kidman and Forest Whitaker.
My belated beautiful, dark, twisted list of my greatest film experiences of 2014 is an absolute jumble. All the stuff everyone talked about and certain organizations even rewarded? I haven’t seen ‘em. Boyhood? Not yet! Intersteller? Nope. Gone Girl? American Sniper? Selma? Eventually, he says. I briefly discussed plans to see Inherent Vice with the wife, but those plans fell apart. Many of the films bandied about by those-in-the-know, from Birdman to Whiplash to Still Alice are films I simply haven’t encountered. What can I tell you?