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Interstellar (2014, Dir. Christopher Nolan): Interstellar is haunted by ghosts: both a “ghost” that jump-starts the plot (and might not be a spirit at all) and the very real ghosts…
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The November Man (Dir. Roger Donaldson, 2014): His name was Devereaux. It was his surname when he had not been in the Section. It did not matter what his Christian…
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"The Outfit" (1973) is one of the better adaptations based on Richard Stark's Parker thriller novels.
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Patricia Highsmith has always been difficult for cinema to decipher. As the first great post-noir author, she never takes the easy way out with her heroes and villains — to…
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2014, Dir. James Gunn): We know the template: likeable heroes and hiss-able villains, everything we hold dear in peril, destructive forces housed in day-glo energy balls,…
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Snowpiercer (2013, Dir. Bong Joon-ho): A unique point of view in a big summer movie is hard to come by. That’s not to say that summer movies are devoid of…
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013, Dir. J.J. Abrams): Bruce Wayne auf weidersehn, Dirty Harry, Make my day, Terminator, hit the north, Alan Moore knows the score, Riffs? Yeah! Can U…
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The collision of wiseguy director/writer Shane Black and the Marvel universe in "Iron Man 3" strikes off some unusual sparks.
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Pearblossom Highway (2012, Dir. Mike Ott): As a screenwriter (more daydream than actual goal), I sometimes encounter an indie film that makes me think, “I would love to have this…
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012, Dir. Peter Jackson): “In the hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of…
