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Moonrise Kingdom is whimsical, but doesn't get bogged down in tweenew
In Moonrise Kingdom, director-to-the-hipster-set Wes Anderson may have finally stumbled upon a cinematic sweet spot in which utter preciousness doesn't drown out the genuine charm of his film.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
06-25-2012 |
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The Hunger Games is a toned-down version of the dystopic booknew
At its best, this successful, though not overwhelming film adaptation of The Hunger Games lampoons the tawdry neon shades, effusive razzle dazzle, and spectacles of debasement and triumph in contemporary American entertainment.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
03-26-2012 |
Reviews
Hilarity Does Not Ensue in Friends with Kidsnew
No matter where you fall on the reproductive continuum -- married, unmarried, childless, or with child -- you'll likely find something to relate to in the egg-meets-sperm romantic comedy Friends with Kids.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
03-26-2012 |
Reviews
Emotionally stunted siblings connect in Jeff, Who Lives at Homenew
The perpetually stoned Jeff's mojo kicks in when he gets a "random" phone call that promises to jumpstart his destiny.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
03-18-2012 |
Reviews
The Artist recalls a time of cultural changenew
Movies don't get much more ebullient, charming, and heart-skippingly cute than the romantic comedy The Artist, which has edged its way into many critical best lists.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
01-18-2012 |
Reviews
Meryl Streep’s Iron Lady is fiction laced with truthnew
British director Phyllida Lloyd, who worked with Streep on Mamma Mia!, takes an interesting, occasionally misguided track in their new collaboration, documenting Thatcher's life in reverse.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
01-11-2012 |
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Tags: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake has same badass heroinenew
Nothing in David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo quite lives up to the menacing, ambiguous, death-metal rapturous credit sequence that opens the director's adaptation of the best-selling Stieg Larsson novel of the same name.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
12-22-2011 |
Reviews
In Young Adult, Charlize Theron Doesn’t Want to Grow Upnew
A toxic spin on all of those cutesy chick flicks where career girls yearn for marriage, the latter film is the convention-busting story of semi-slovenly, semi-slatternly 37-year-old Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron), who is hellbent on busting up a marriage.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
12-15-2011 |
Reviews
In Take Shelter, Michael Shannon Defines Slow-burn Agonynew
Set in a rural Ohio of backyard rubbish piles and church suppers, Take Shelter is a skin-crawling heartland thriller in which visions of disaster haunt family man Curtis (Michael Shannon).
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
12-08-2011 |
Reviews
Anna and Jacob love each other Like Crazy, despite visa issuesnew
Not since Green Card has so much romance been yoked to the ox cart of bureaucracy.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-28-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Like Crazy
Martha Marcy May Marlene is Creepy, Sexy, and Very Stylizednew
A semi-sinister little film with the eerie, sunlit ambiance of headspace thrillers like Rosemary's Baby or the original The Stepford Wives, Martha Marcy May Marlene presents a young woman trapped between two worlds.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-16-2011 |
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Tags: Martha Marcy May Marlene
Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar is a Sympathetic Portrait of a Closeted Mannew
A fascinating portrait of an influential American, J. Edgar presents Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio) as a flawed but prescient figure whose public role building the FBI into an important institution is contrasted with a private life as a closeted gay man devoted to his right-hand man Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer), who became a devoted soulmate.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-10-2011 |
Reviews
Margin Call's Ensemble Cast Exhibits the Perversities of Wall Streetnew
The world documented in the financial thriller Margin Call feels almost like ancient history by now. Set back in the good ole days when many Americans were still living high on the hog, the film takes place in a Manhattan investment bank on the precipice of the 2008 financial meltdown.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-03-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Margin Call, Margin's Call
Cancer Dramedy 50/50 Offers Generational Critique of Millenialsnew
In some sense,it seems like just about time for a Gen Y cancer comedy, and director Jonathan Levine's 50/50 is it.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
09-28-2011 |
Reviews
The Devil's Double is an over-the-top true storynew
Iraq-Iran war vet Latif is yanked off a battlefield and given a choice that is really no choice at all: reject his former identity as a soldier and beloved son to a wealthy Iraqi businessman and become the doppelganger to a madman.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
09-27-2011 |
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