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  • Movie Review: “The Revenant” (Alejandro G. Iñárritu, USA 2015)

    “‘Tis unnatural Even like the deed that’s done. On Tuesday last, A falcon, tow’ring in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. And Duncan’s horses–a thing most strange and certain– Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race, Turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, Contending ‘gainst obedience,…

  • Movie Review: “Mad Max: Fury Road” (George Miller, Australia/USA 2015)

    Back in the early to mid 1970s, a crop of young directors appeared in a government program intended to revitalize Australia’s film industry that had languished since World War II. They were dubbed the Australian New Wave. The program worked, because it found a series of directors highlighted by George Miller, Nicholas Roeg and Peter…

  • Movie Review: “The Drop” (Michaël R. Roskam, USA 2014)

    Dennis Lehane once wrote a good book that became a great movie in Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, USA 2010). Some authors have a tendency to translate well (James M. Cain) or poorly (John le Carré) to film because of particular qualities about how they write. Cain’s repetitious, circular plots and relatively simple characters did not…