The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) Director: Wes Anderson Screenwriters: Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach Starring: Bill Murray, Anjelica Huston, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon Following the critical successes of Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson had become more of a household name by the time his fourth feature The Life […]
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Always Shine (2016) Director: Sophia Takal Screenwriter: Lawrence Michael Levine Starring: Mackenzie Davis, Caitlin FitzGerald Trapping two troubled characters in an isolated getaway is a recipe for trouble; so often is it also a recipe for riveting horror. Sophia Takal’s second feature may walk on well-treaded ground but an injection of postmodernist writing and strong
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The Wedding Planner (2001) Director: Adam Shankman Screenwriters: Pamela Falk & Michael Ellis Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Justin Chambers It’s a classic – woman has the perfect job and the perfect life, but nobody to share it with. How on earth could she be truly happy? Nobody has any doubt the wedding
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12 Hour Shift Review (2020) Director: Brea Grant Screenwriters: Brea Grant Starring: Angela Bettis, Chloe Farnsworth, Tara Perry, Mick Foley, David Arquette Seeing a character’s superficially respectable life clash dramatically with their hidden and criminal alter-ego is a great way to tell a tense, compelling story. 12 Hour Shift has such a premise – when
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Gone with the Wind (1939) Director: Victor Fleming Screenwriter: Sidney Howard Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel “Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A civilization gone with the wind…” With the passing of Olivia de Havilland last year, the then
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The Kid (1921) Director: Charlie Chaplin Screenwriter: Charlie Chaplin Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance, Carl Miller, Walter Lynch Inequality, wealth disparity, gendered oppression and prejudice have long been among the thematic building blocks of great cinema, but rarely have they been presented with such innocence as in a Charlie Chaplin motion picture, and
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Across the Universe (2007) Director: Julie Taymor Screenwriter: Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais Starring: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, T.V. Carpio, Martin Luther McCoy ‘The Beatles are comin’, they’re gonna hold your hand’ – Bob Dylan, “Murder Most Foul” (2020) 2020 marked fifty years since the release of The Beatles’ final
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Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) Director: Patty Jenkins Screenwriters: Patty Jenkins, Geoff Johns, Dave Callaham Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal Equally exhilarating as it was historic, Wonder Woman’s arrival onto the big screen in 2017 marked a significant change for the future of the male-dominated superhero universe. As a female-led project, with
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) Director: Aaron Sorkin Screenwriter: Aaron Sorkin Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, John Carroll Lynch, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Mark Rylance, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Frank Langella Aaron Sorkin only comes out with something, either written or directed, every couple of years. So when he does bring
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One Night In Miami (2020) Director: Regina King Screenwriter: Kemp Powers Starring: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom Jr., Lance Reddick, Christian Magby If you could pick any four people in the world and put them in a room together, who would you choose? For Regina King, those four people would be: The
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