Tag: 2014
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Exodus: Gods And Kings (2014)
Exodus: Gods and Kings has a few visuals that are impressive, but it’s a generic sword and sandals epic that wastes most of its impressive cast.
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Son of a Gun (2014)
There have been quite a few good-to-great gritty Aussie crime dramas that have come out the last few years. Following in the line of The Square (2008), Animal Kingdom (2010), and The Rover (2014), Son of a Gun is a well-told tale of crime from a first time director, Julius…
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The Judge (2014)
The Judge fails because it doesn’t know what kind of movie it wants to be, but also thinks it is more than what it is.
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Listen Up Philip (2014)
We all know how we are supposed to act around other people, even the most socially awkward among us (myself included). Part of being a part of society is this unspoken social contract we enter into to not always say what is on our minds or to hold back criticisms based…
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Believe Me (2014)
The landscape of evangelical Christianity is littered with things that can be cannon fodder for good humor. Just look at stuffchristianslike.net. Over the summer I saw a preview for Believe Me and was instantly hooked. I was curious as to whether it would be too tame or a no-holds-barred look at…
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Draft Day (2014)
The NFL is the most popular sport in America. Almost every kind of sports movie has been made at least once. Draft Day, a 2014 Ivan Reitman movie starring Kevin Costner, is a sports movie focused on the NFL Draft and the drama that takes place during the draft, an offseason…
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Still Alice (2014)
My grandfather passed away nearly two years ago after battling Parkinson’s Disease for many years. It was a disease that subtly hemmed his life in more and more around him; starting with hand tremors and slowly but surely taking more and more individual ability away from him until he was…
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Mood Indigo (2014)
Regardless of the overall quality of his films, Michel Gondry is one of the few filmmakers who has a distinct visual aesthetic to his films (The Green Hornet notwithstanding). Rising to prominence like other modern-day directors through music videos, Gondry has carved out a unique creativity in the visual style…
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Jimi: All Is By My Side (2014)
Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitarist of all time. I remember the first time I bought a Hendrix album back during a summer home from college working at the now defunct Ames in South Portland, ME. I had just started to get into music beyond just what I heard on the…
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Wish I Was Here (2014)
Despite the eventual backlash, Zach Braff wrote, directed, and starred in one of the most talked about indie films of the 2000s with 2004’s Garden State. It elevated Braff to a level that most people didn’t expect given that he had very little on his resume outside of the TV show Scrubs. …
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