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‘Ford v Ferrari’ less the true story, more the story you want to be true
7/10 There’s a clear intent behind Ford v Ferrari that’s successfully born out. The intent to evoke the type of movie you’d find channel surfing on a Sunday afternoon, its 152-minute runtime expanded to fill a three or four hour … Continue reading
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Tagged #aaron sorkin, #christian bale, Ford Motor Company, Ford v Ferrari, James Mangold, Josh Lucas, Le Mans '66, Matt Damon, Moneyball
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Straight Outta ways to tell a story
Biopics can go one of two ways — a ritualistic re-telling of a historic caricature or an encapsulation of the conflict and triumph in an individual’s life. Straight Outta Compton, perhaps more sadly than any other, is the former. The movie goes … Continue reading
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Tagged #biopics, #black lives matter, #corey hawkins, #darth vader, #dr dre, #eazy e, #father and son, #fuck tha police, #ice cube, #institutional racism, #jason mitchell, #keith stanfield, #lube is important, #michael brown, #no justice no peace, #no vaseline, #o'shea jackson jr, #paul giamatti, #rodney king, #snoop dogg, #story structure, #the predator, #time is a flat circle, #vaseline, Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher, Moneyball
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The most important movies of 2014
Annual top 10 lists are stupid and easy and boring and no one likes them. On this blog, we try to track the path of movies over time, so instead of blindly stating what we liked and disliked about 2014 movies, we’re going … Continue reading
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Tagged American Sniper, Bennett Miller, Boyhood, Capote, Captain America, Clint Eastwood, Dark Skies, Darren Aronofsky, Evan Goldberg, Exodus: Gods and Kings, Foxcatcher, God's not Dead, Guardians of the Galaxy, Harry Potter, Heaven is for Real, History Channel, Insidious, J. Edgar, James Spader, Jeff Bridges, Let's be Cops, Marvel, Moneyball, Night at the Museum, Noah, Oculus, Oren Peli, Paranormal activity, paranormal activity: the marked ones, Persecuted, Robocop, Selma, Seth Rogen, Sinister, Son of God, Spider-Man, Taylor Swift, The Avengers, The Bible, The Giver, The Identical, The Imitation Game, The Interview, The Lego Movie, The Other Woman, Theory of Everything, Transformers, X-men: Days of Future Past
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