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Movie Review

Pride

September 23, 2014 By Jonny Smith 4 Comments

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There’s a wonderfully poignant scene in Pride where Imelda Staunton’s character, Hefina, sits with one of the elder statesmen of their small mining village buttering sandwiches. As they go about this mundane task facing the static, Ozu-esque camera, discussing their new found solidarity with gay pride, the man makes the bold admission he himself is […]

Television

Hoopleheads: Episode 6 “Plague”

September 21, 2016 By Søren Hough 1 Comment

“Plague” foretells chaos in Deadwood. As small pox breaks out, local business leaders (and religious figures) step in to keep order. Meanwhile, Jane (Robin Weigert) reenters camp and looks into the girl she helped save. Alma (Molly Parker) continues to wrestle with addiction; Trixie (Paula Malcomson) offers support at risk to her own life. Out in the frontier, Bullock […]

Movie Review

Deadpool with J and Søren

March 9, 2016 By Søren Hough Leave a Comment

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Podcast Review J and Søren sit down to discuss Fox’s Deadpool in this dueling review. Below that you’ll find both of their written opinions for a more detailed look at their perspectives. As always, you can subscribe to our podcast feed using iTunes or by copying this link into your RSS reader. Alternatively, you can check out the episode online or […]

Movie Review

The Good Dinosaur

November 23, 2015 By Ari Donnelly Leave a Comment

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While I prefer to judge a film on its own merit, nothing exists in a vacuum. An artist’s work is always weighed against their past efforts or, in the case of Pixar, against the reputation of the studio. And indeed, no review of The Good Dinosaur will print without comparing it to Inside Out. Nor […]

Op-Ed

Søren and J’s Oscarcast 2015

March 26, 2015 By Søren Hough Leave a Comment

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2015 was a year of meager expectations when it came to the Oscars. While controversy surrounded the nomination process, we generally knew who’d take home the major awards. No one gasped in amazement when Birdman took Best Cinematography, or when Patricia Arquette was named Best Supporting Actress for Boyhood. Yet sometimes there is intrigue to be found […]

Movie Review

Dear White People

December 9, 2014 By Søren Hough 1 Comment

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I have a paradoxical love for Dear White People. On one hand, I wish writer/director Justin Simien had tackled such serious subject matter further along in his carer. On the other, I wonder if a more established director would have taken so many risks. A world post-Spike Lee – a man more concerned with strangely esoteric commentary and Korean […]

Movie Review

The Riot Club

September 29, 2014 By Jonny Smith 2 Comments

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“I’m sick to death of poor people!” the repugnant Alistair Ryle (Sam Claflin) roars to his comrades atop the opulent dinner table, sloshing his wine carelessly out of its vessel in the process. This loaded, incendiary harangue epitomises the deplorable attitude of The Riot Club. The film’s vulgar band of toffs are some of the most […]

Movie Review

300: Rise of an Empire

March 9, 2014 By Søren Hough 1 Comment

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Zack Snyder’s 300 moved me. The film has fallen prey to biting parody in recent years, but I knew then that 300 was one of the era’s great cinematic experiences. Movies like that demand to be seen on the big screen. Like both The Matrix and Gravity, 300 was a masterpiece of visual splendor. And it was […]

Academic

Abstraction in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc

January 20, 2014 By Søren Hough 2 Comments

For this essay, my professor asked us perform a formal analysis of how Carl Theodor Dreyer uses the ideas of “simplification” and “abstraction” in his film, The Passion of Joan of Arc. Vicarious emotion is key to the power of The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). Director Carl Theodor Dreyer was committed to the aesthetic […]

Movie Review

Austenland

September 27, 2013 By Yoshi Makishima 1 Comment

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Austenland is sort of the latest adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I say “sort of” because it’s actually based on Shannon Hale’s novel Austenland, which was inspired by the 1995 film version of Pride and Prejudice, which was itself adapted from Austen’s actual novel. After being dragged through a book, a movie, another book, […]

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Welcome to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) section of Movie Fail! Here you’ll find answers to many of the inquiries we’ve received over the years, including FAQs about guest writing for the site. General FAQs You’re called “Movie Fail” – does that mean you only review movies you hate? Do you just look for things to […]

Op-Ed

Is Story Still King? An Examination of Pixar’s Future

May 8, 2013 By Ari Donnelly 2 Comments

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Among the fabled Pixar legends, which include the “Black Friday” Toy Story reel, the cancelled Newt project, and the reason why Cars 2 exists, there is the story of one quietly life-changing lunch. In 1994, a year before Toy Story came out and birthed the digital animation craze, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, and […]

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Movie Review

Quartet

March 5, 2013 By Søren Hough Leave a Comment

Quartet is a quiet drama-comedy that tells the story of four older men and women living at Beecham House, a home for retired musicians, and their struggle to maintain their identities as they reach old age. Well-known as a prolific and successful actor, Dustin Hoffman decided to step behind the camera for Quartet, his first […]

Movie Review

Promised Land

January 18, 2013 By Ben Sack 1 Comment

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When I saw the first TV spots for Promised Land back in late November, I mostly ignored the actual content of the advertisement in favor of the text that ran right after the title. It looked like this: That list of names got me all hot and bothered. Notoriously hit-or-miss director Gus Van Sant (Good […]

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