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Now Showing: "Blackhat" from Michael Mann, action painter
Even on his worst day Michael Mann can run circles around nearly every other director working today. His frenetic set
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Rustin Thompson is a filmmaker, film critic and indie radio deejay. He enjoys strong coffee, red wine, IPAs and his wife and grown children. He is comfortable with the fact he will never be rich, but
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Gulf oil disaster film: The last word belongs to ...?
The invisible in Margaret Brown’s documentary The Great Invisible (available on Netflix and online on PBS’s Independent Lens
Viral Video: Parodying Amazon's "Life in Seattle"
Amazon’s employment division (Amazon.jobs) created a video in late 2013 called Amazon: Life in Seattle, intended to help
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Now Showing: Mountain air does little to lift film's heaviness
The weirdly named new film from director Olivier Assayas, The Clouds of Sils Maria, refers to an actual phenomenon that
The Restless Critic: Kurt Cobain Montage of Heck
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is named for a mix tape the musician made in his misfit years, when he