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Coup de Cinema
Movie | Dustin Jansick | June 3, 2011Coup de Cinema is an indie low budget film about low budget indie filmmaking. Co-directors Austin Hillebrecht and Sean Parker made a fantastically original film about an inspired filmmaker who believes he can turn the production of a bad...
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13 Assassins
Movie | Dustin Jansick | May 31, 2011The director Takashi Miike, who may be most famous for directing the horror film Audition, is the director of this epic samurai period film. 13 Assassins is set in 1844 toward the end of the Edo era that Tokyo...
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The Illusionist
Movie | Dustin Jansick | May 25, 2011Based off a Pulitzer Prize winning short story, The Illusionist is a film about a magician who must overcome class struggle throughout his life in order to win the hand of his lover. Not only are the illusions mysterious...
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2011 Cannes Film Festival Winners
Awards | Dustin Jansick | May 24, 2011Cannes Film Festival came to a close Sunday night and announced the winners of Palme d’Or, Grand Prix, Best Director and other high status awards. Kirsten Dunst won Best Actress in Lars von Trier's film Melancholia and thanked the...
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Last Train Home
Movie | Dustin Jansick | May 23, 2011Last Train Home is a documentary by Lixin Fan that follows a family of factory workers over the course of three years and shows the struggle between factory life and family life in China. The film starts off saying,...
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Thor
Movie | Dustin Jansick | May 17, 2011It has been nearly 50 years since Thor was originally created as a comic book hero by Marvel Comics. In what seems as a last effort to milk the comic book turn movie trend, Hollywood gives us Thor. Speaking...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Movie | Patrick Gross | May 16, 2011Talk about timely reviews, approximately 6 months after the movie was released in theaters, and one month after it was released on DVD the world will finally get to hear my much anticipated thoughts on the film. After years...
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Incendies
Movie | Dustin Jansick | May 14, 2011Incendies is a French Canadian film directed and written by Denis Villeneuve, which was adapted from a play by Wajdi Mouawad. The film, whose title is translated to Scorched, is a dual narrative about siblings uncovering their families past...
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The Royal Tenenbaums
Movie | Dustin Jansick | May 5, 2011The Royal Tenenbaums is about a dysfunctional family with each member having their own talents and idiosyncrasies, reunited again under the same roof the child prodigies grew up together. Director Wes Anderson’s style is clearly shown like most of...
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TRON: Legacy
Movie | Dustin Jansick | May 2, 2011Tron: Legacy is a sequel to the original 1982 sci-fi cult classic Tron. Most of the film takes place in a video game fantasyland which shows off the film’s impressive visual effects. Even though this sequel was made 28...
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Rabbit Hole
Movie | Dustin Jansick | April 27, 2011Rabbit Hole is a raw and painful filled domestic drama that was based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire. Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart put on great performances playing characters that have flaws and vulnerabilities. The story...
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A Prophet
Movie | Dustin Jansick | April 25, 2011A Prophet (Un prophete) is a French gangster film set in a prison divided largely by Corsicans and Arabs in a fight for power. Director Jacques Audiard gives a gritty and authentic look at prison life and that is...
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Source Code
Movie | Dustin Jansick | April 20, 2011Source Code is the sophomore feature by director Duncan Jones. It borrows the sci-fi aspect of his first film, Moon, and throws in a puzzle plot in this techno-thriller. The film was well-crafted, with only a slight plot-hole near...
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Dogtooth
Movie | Dustin Jansick | April 18, 2011Dogtooth is disturbing anti-social satire that is shot in an art-house sort of way. After the conclusion of most films, you can form an opinion fairly soon after the final credits roll. But there are some films that are...