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Daniel Day-Lewis ends slavery in Lincolnnew
Steven Spielberg's Lincoln accomplishes the seemingly irreconcilable feat of humanizing Abraham Lincoln while preserving his mythology.
Spielberg's Lincoln humanizes the legendary presidentnew
When you hear that Steven Spielberg directed an Abraham Lincoln biopic, you get an image in your head of what it must look like: overtly sentimental, grand in scale, and more about idealized hero worship than anything else. The famed director's historical dramas tend to be maudlin affairs, custom-made for history classrooms, and no doubt Lincoln will be shown to many a middle school over the ensuing decades.
Charleston City Paper |
Jake Mulligan |
11-14-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Spielberg
The Louisiana Roots of Rise of the Guardiansnew
Will Coviello on the storytellers behind an Oscar-winning Shreveport startup
Resizing Tolstoy: Tom Stoppard’s Visible Magic Shines
Resizing Tolstoy
Tom Stoppard’s Visible Magic Shines
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
11-12-2012 |
Reviews
Landing a Miraclenew
Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington gives a stellar performance as a man lost in denial in "Flight."
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
11-09-2012 |
Reviews
Documenting The Other Dream Team, from Lithuanianew
What was little understood in the aftermath of the U.S. basketball team's defeat at the 1988 Olympics was that the top players on the winning Soviet team were not Russian, but Lithuanian.
Nobody Does It Betternew
Mission accomplished in Skyfall
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
11-07-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Skyfall
Endlessly Entertainingnew
Disney's captivating animated tribute to video games pleases on many levels.
Tucson Weekly |
Colin Boyd |
11-07-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Wreck-It Ralph
Stripped Down Bond No Competition With Craig’s 007 Around
The 23rd installment in the longest-running franchise in cinema history is crafted to satisfy fans from every era of the series based on the Ian Fleming novels. Sam Mendes tastefully directs this outing of action-based espionage, gently shifting gears between a literary approach to wit, style, personality, and spectacle.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
11-05-2012 |
Reviews
Spielberg Doesn’t Trouble the Water: Daniel Day Lewis Flawless as Always
See the film for Daniel Day Lewis. As for the “history lesson” on display, take it with a grain of salt.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
11-04-2012 |
Reviews
Cosmic Imaginationnew
Like the other talented actors in “Cloud Atlas,” Doona Bae portrays multiple characters, including Somni 451 from the year 2144.
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
11-01-2012 |
Reviews
Uncommon Bedfellows: Hollywood and Politicsnew
Would you vote for Matt Santos? Jed Bartlett? Andrew Shepherd? How about Dave?
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
10-31-2012 |
Movies
Tags: Political Movies
Martial arts way of life leads RZA to 'The Man with the Iron Fists'new
Introduced to Hollywood in the late '90s, RZA — Grammy-winning hip-hop MC/producer and co-founder of the Wu-Tang Clan — thought he would try something different when filmmaker Jim Jarmusch asked him to compose music for his new action-drama Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai. It was not a gig he thought would lead to anything.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martínez |
10-31-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Malibu Country' has it all: moldy oldies, boobs, and gay mockingnew
Start-Ups: Silicon Valley (9pm Mon, Bravo)
Bravo usually focuses its reality series on good-looking socialites or business people.
San Antonio Current |
Dean Robbins |
10-31-2012 |
TV
Goth Penn: Sean Penn Goes Out On a Limb
“This Must Be the Place” is a canny model of life-affirming cinema.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
10-29-2012 |
Reviews
