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Tag: drama

trailers

Summer’s End: LABOR DAY Trailer

This story of one intense weekend at summer’s end might well be the least Jason Reitman “Jason Reitman Movie”

Posted on November 12, 2013November 17, 2013
reviews

ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW

An incredible story comes to life. Pity about the not-so-incredible story it chooses to tell.

Posted on October 27, 2013November 1, 2013
reviews

THE COUNSELOR

That cheeseburger you regret eating the minute you’rve taken the last bite? That’s Ridley Scott ‘s ugly tale of high stakes and low morals.

Posted on October 25, 2013October 29, 2013
reviews

12 YEARS A SLAVE

At an important time comes an important film; a film everyone should see, even if they only ever see it once.

Posted on October 18, 2013September 12, 2020
reviews

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS

Pressure leads to Necessity; Necessity leads to Desperation.

Posted on October 13, 2013February 28, 2014
reviews

RUSH

Ron Howard returns to make audiences feel the rush and intensity of Formula One racing. But how about the plot?

Posted on September 29, 2013October 24, 2013
reviews

PRISONERS

We like to think we know ourselves. We like to think we know what we’re capable of. Turns out, we often hold fast to the wrong

Posted on September 22, 2013September 26, 2013
festivals, reactions, TIFF

GRAVITY plays TIFF 2013

Make that twice that the hype should be believed.

Posted on September 12, 2013September 15, 2013
festivals, reactions, TIFF

DALLAS BUYERS CLUB plays TIFF 2013

Awlright, awright, awright…McConaughey’s run of good work continues, perhaps to his best piece of work yet.

Posted on September 8, 2013September 12, 2013
reviews

BLUE JASMINE

When you’re a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, do you take a breath and step back from the edge…or open your arms and lean over?

Posted on September 1, 2013September 6, 2013
trailers

Deep in The Heart of Texas: DALLAS BUYERS CLUB Trailer

Getting one of my most sought-after TIFF selections leaves me pretty stoked to see it next week.

Posted on August 28, 2013September 4, 2013
reviews

FRUITVALE STATION

One of 2013’s most powerful films is a prayer for patience and redemption, and a painful reminder of how rare those virtues are.

Posted on August 18, 2013September 12, 2020

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