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  • Movie Review: “Out of the Furnace” (Scott Cooper, USA/UK 2013)

    This film was one that somewhat interested me because of its stars. Christian Bale is one of the best actors in the world and somehow manages to be under-appreciated. Woody Harrelson is also an excellent actor who excels at playing antagonistic characters. And Willem Dafoe, who has one of the greatest faces in film history,…

  • Movie Review: “American Hustle” (David O. Russell, USA 2013)

    In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was released to eventual great (if undeserved) acclaim, a novel deconstructing the idea of “the American dream” through a distasteful character who seeks the trappings of that dream via some unfortunate means with eventually disastrous results. In more recent times, the clearest examples of films with the…