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adam driver

reviews 3.5 stars, adam driver, carrie mulligan, coen brothers, f. murray abraham, inside llewyn davis, john goodman, justin timberlake, music, oscar isaacs

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS

December 22, 2013

Perhaps the allure of folk music is the quiet comfort in hearing about characters who have it worse than us.

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Ryan McNeil
oscar isaac, inside llewyn davis
trailers adam driver, carey mulligan, coen brothers, comedy, f. murray abraham, garrett hedlund, inside llewyn davis, john goodman, justin timberlake, music, oscar isaac

Lonesome Day Blues: INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Trailer

January 30, 2013

I didn’t even need to watch this trailer to know I’d be seeing this film. Now that I have though…

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Ryan McNeil
trailers adam driver, bio-pic, daniel day-lewis, david oyelowo, hal holbrook, history, jackie earle haley, james spader, jared harris, john hawkes, joseph gordon-levitt, lee pace, lincoln, michael stuhlbarg, sally field, steven spielberg, tommy lee jones

Honesty – LINCOLN Trailer and Thoughts About Trailers in General

September 18, 2012

A much-anticipated film gets its trailer on a week where I ponder the usefulness

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF adam driver, comedy, frances ha, grace gummer, greta gerwig, michael zegen, mickey summer, noah baumbach, patrick heusinger, TIFF 2012

FRANCES HA Plays TIFF 2012

September 16, 2012

When Frances moved from Sacramento to New York, this couldn’t have been what she had in mind.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF adam driver, alan ball, american beauty, bryan cranston, christina hendricks, george strombolopolous, jason reitman, mae whitman, nick kroll, paul scheer, sarah gadon, TIFF 2012

Jason Reitman’s AMERICAN BEAUTY Table Read plays TIFF 2012

September 7, 2012

Thirteen years after AMERICAN BEAUTY took the TIFF Audience Choice Award, the festival brings it back for an encore…a very special encore.

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Ryan McNeil
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