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Noah

July 29, 2014 By Nathan Frontiero 2 Comments

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Darren Aronofsky, a director best known for Requiem for a Dream (2000) and Black Swan (2010), has fallen victim to that most dreaded art-versus-production trope of Hollywood: a big budget. Noah had financial backing north of $100 million and you can see every cent of it. Everything about this film is supersized – giant tracking shots, a […]

Interview

Stephen Stanton of Life Itself, The 7D and The Legend of Korra

July 20, 2014 By Søren Hough 2 Comments

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Director Steve James still gets questions about how he got Roger Ebert to record narration for Life Itself. But as he always tells the audience, that isn’t really Mr. Ebert talking – it’s Stephen Stanton. While you may not have heard of him, you’ve almost certainly heard his voice. Mr. Stanton is a renowned voice actor who has lent […]

Debate

On Hooper, Refn, and Cinematography

March 23, 2014 By Søren Hough 3 Comments

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This conversation got started when I, a long-time critic of director Tom Hooper, posted a link that lambasted the cinematography of Hooper’s films. Søren didn’t see the issue, and defended Hooper. The debate touched on director Nicolas Winding Refn, whom Søren found much more visually irritating than Hooper, as well as whether or not interesting […]

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Movie Review

Man of Steel

June 19, 2013 By Ari Donnelly 5 Comments

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Full disclosure: While I am a fan of superhero movies in general, I’m not a fan of Superman; I’ve always felt that he’s too campy, and that he doesn’t have enough weaknesses as a superhero or flaws as a character. He’s too perfect. Maybe this is why Man of Steel, for all its faults, still […]

London Film Festival 2024 Highlights

November 1, 2024 By Søren Hough

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October 20, 2024 By Søren Hough

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