Month: August 2014
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The Best of Doctor Who: No. 5, “The God Complex” (06.11, 2011)
Written by Toby Whithouse Directed by Nick Hurran “I stole your childhood and now I’ve lead you by the hand to your death. But the worst thing is, I knew. I knew this would happen. This is what always happens. Forget your faith in me. I took you with me because I was vain, because…
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Movie Review: “Magic in the Moonlight” (Woody Allen, USA 2014)
Woody Allen is an atheist. He is a melancholic. And Magic in the Moonlight wonders if these things are related. It says that magic and escapism make us happy but are an empty happiness but that logical reality is a truthfully sad existence, one where the world doesn’t give us joys. But then it says,…
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Thoughts on the Previews: August 20, 2014
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, USA 2014) J.K. Simmons in a serious movie? Interesting. It looks like he’s essentially playing a serious version of B.R. from Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman, USA 2005), so he’s probably more than capable. So this is the jazz music version of Gordon Ramsay? Is that the idea? Birdman (Alejandro González…
Crowd of Full Pockets 