Posted by moviegeek916 on August 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Savages (2012) – So Oliver Stone is known primarily for political films like JFK, Nixon, and W. Or films with a message like Platoon or Wall Street. But sometimes Stone just goes wild and crazy and that’s when he gives us movies like U-Turn or, more to the point, Natural Born Killers. Natural Born Killers was … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on March 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Game Change (2012) – I am of the belief that film criticism should be based on nothing more than the quality of a film. However, human beings are fallible and not beyond their own biases. A film like Game Change seems impossible to separate from one’s own political predispositions so allow to me to state … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on November 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment
J. Edgar (2011) – Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dustin Lance Black, and J. Edgar Hoover: this seems like a combination that can’t go wrong. Clint Eastwood has been a gifted film-maker wince the 1970s but in the past decade he has hit a stride that makes him one of the more interesting elder statesmen of … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 