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Movie Review: “Edge of Tomorrow” (Doug Liman, USA/Australia 2014)
I think a lot about the basis of the critic’s job. A critic’s job is to find the director’s purpose and judge how well the director succeeded in achieving that goal. Many would say that putting any value judgments on whether that goal was worth achieving is beyond the purview of a critic and while…
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Thoughts from the Previews: June 5, 2014
The Fault in Our Stars (Josh Boone, USA 2014) I’ve seen this trailer several times now, and the movie just looks like a total mess. It looks like it’s telling a seven-act story with no overarching point. It really bears the marks of a film being run by the novelist or people who don’t have…
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TV Episode Revew: “Orphan Black” “Knowledge of Causes, and Secret Motion of Things” (02.07, 2014)
Tatiana Maslany is 28 years old (born about five months after me). Her film/television acting career began before she even graduated from high school, when she worked on the series 2030 C.E., appearing in six episodes. Before Orphan Black debuted, I saw her in the excellent and far-too-little-seen Diary of the Dead (George Romero, USA…
Crowd of Full Pockets 