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For Your Consideration

For Your Consideration rounds-up and reviews new films that may hold Oscar contention.

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For Your Consideration: TRUMBO’s TV Movie Earnestness

Dec 17, 2015 Wade Sheeler 0

There are currently two films in theatres that have a couple things in common. They will undoubtedly garner Oscar attention, and they are both about the same Cold War period in the US , tackling […]

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Iñárritu Goes Full Tilt Cimino with THE REVENANT

Dec 4, 2015 Wade Sheeler 0

Believe everything you’ve heard about The Revenant, both the behind-the-scenes hysteria, as well as those who’ve experienced the almost three hours of visual and auditory assault, as ultimately it will add to the mystique of […]

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Best of Enemies: The Birth of Political Punditry

Jul 31, 2015 Wade Sheeler 0

For Your Consideration rounds-up and reviews new films that may hold Oscar contention. Best of Enemies, a new documentary, opens today nationwide.

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A MOST VIOLENT YEAR is a Most Perfect Film

Jan 2, 2015 Wade Sheeler 0

Slick, steely, measured, calculated and psychologically satisfying, A Most Violent Year is also one of the best of the year. Writer/Director J.C. Chandor has done it again (Margin Call, All is Lost) by combining well-crafted […]

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AMERICAN SNIPER: A Modern Misfire

Dec 30, 2014 Wade Sheeler 1

Opening the same day as Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken, and carrying the same self-importance and baggage, American Sniper is the unambiguous biography of real-life war hero Chris Kyle, at one time referred to as the “most […]

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BIG EYES: Bare Bones Tim Burton

Dec 26, 2014 The Retro Set 1

The paintings of Margaret Keane are familiar even to those who have no interest in art whatsoever. You know what they are: those slightly creepy little kids with the cavernous, oversized eyes; kind of like a […]

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