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• Cars

  

  For someone who doesn't know a Buick from a Benz, I was expected to be totally bored with Cars, a film that definitely holds a high appeal for auto... Read more

  The 17 April 2011 by   Kaiser31083
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• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2011)

  

  The grass almost literally looks greener in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's movies: of all the modern poets of the cinema, "Joe" is by far the most tactile. Though... Read more

  The 16 April 2011 by   Jake Cole
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• "ESPN's 30 for 30" The Best That Never Was

  

  In 1964, the small town of Philadelphia, Mississippi was a hotbed of racial strife as it was the location where the three civil rights workers from up north wer... Read more

  The 16 April 2011 by   Kaiser31083
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• The Iron Giant

  

  In 1957 small town Maine, a mischievous and lonely boy is playing in the restaurant where his single mother works. He overhears the town cook being mocked for... Read more

  The 16 April 2011 by   Kaiser31083
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• Inside Job

  

  Inside Job is the 2010 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary that traces the roots of the global economic crisis that we face today. It is a maddening film... Read more

  The 12 April 2011 by   Kaiser31083
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• Hanna

  

  In the wake of the dismal, thoroughly chauvinistic takes on female empowerment seen in Kick-Ass and Sucker Punch, along comes Joe Wright to save us. He does no... Read more

  The 12 April 2011 by   Jake Cole
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• My Cinematic Alphabet

  

  I've seen this même going around the blogs lately, so I figured I'd give it a shot. Unsurprisingly, picking a favorite for some letters was impossible because o... Read more

  The 11 April 2011 by   Jake Cole
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• Valmont Vs Dangerous Liaisons

  

  My most-read post of all time. Thanks Colin!Milos Forman’s film Valmont came out in 1989, the year after Steven Frears’ Dangerous Liaisons. Both are based on... Read more

  The 10 April 2011 by   Thecleverpup
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• Easy A

  

  Easy A is a reworking of The Scarlet Letter with the story now being set in a modern day California high school. Our heroine is Olive, a smart and straight edge... Read more

  The 09 April 2011 by   Kaiser31083
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• Love and Other Drugs

  

  It is 1996 and an intelligent, out of work, and underachieving Lothario goes to work as a pharmaceutical salesman, a job which he struggles at initially. Then h... Read more

  The 07 April 2011 by   Kaiser31083
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