By Jess Lomas April 16, 2013 Many films prompt you to suspend disbelief, ignore that plot hole, and not think too hard about how A equals B. Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep is such a film, in which Shia LaBeouf solves a 30-year mystery that had alluded the top minds at the FBI. Based […]
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Play It Again – Cape Fear
January 23, 2013 
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Play It Again – Cape Fear. Starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, and Polly Bergen. Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Rated M. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Company You Keep
September 3, 2012 0 Comments
Ahead of the world premiere of Robert Redford‘s latest film, The Company You Keep, at the Venice International Film Festival, the first trailer has been released and it’s certainly… interesting. It concerns an intrepid young journalist (Shia LeBeouf) who is investigating the story of a former Weather Underground member (an early 70s activist militia) arrested […]
Continue readingHBO cancels Dustin Hoffman drama Luck after horse deaths
March 15, 2012 1 Comment
HBO has taken one of its marquee shows behind the white sheet and put it out of its misery. Luck, the horse-racing drama produced by David Milch (Deadwood) and Michael Mann, is no more. The announcement of Luck‘s cancellation comes on the heels of the show’s third horse death. HBO broke the news with the following statement (courtesy […]
Continue readingThe 10 best male performances of 2011
December 8, 2011 1 Comment
The 10 best male performances of 2011. By Simon Miraudo. Acting! It’s perhaps the most subjective craft in the entire moviemaking process. What better way to celebrate its unquantifiable nature than by ranking our favourite performances of the year? Look past the inherent ridiculousness of comparing dudes who play vicious murderers with those dressed in […]
Continue readingThe fight stuff – Warrior review
October 25, 2011 1 Comment
Warrior – Starring Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton and Nick Nolte. Directed by Gavin O’Connor. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Mixed martial arts (MMA to those in the know) is not a sport I’m particularly familiar with, but after witnessing its unrestrained brutality in Gavin O’Connor’s Warrior, I can only assume 50-75% of all competitors die […]
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