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FILM: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

There are few artists as important and as innovative today as Ai Weiwei and it is easy to see why in Alison Klayman’s new documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry which follows the Chinese artist from his work on the Birds Nest Olympic stadium in 2008 to his prison release last year. She shows how he moves from one of the nation’s stars to something close More...

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By Genie Davis On Thursday, July 12th, 2012
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FILM: Trishna, starring Frieda Pinto

Not your mother’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles, director Michael Winterbottom’s take on the Thomas Hardy novel is updated and set in India. The setting gives the film beauty and vitality, although the story itself More...

By Casey Hicks On Thursday, July 12th, 2012
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FILM: Red Lights

X-Files fans, this one’s for you. Red Lights, the latest film from director/writer Rodrigo CortĂ©s, follows the quest of two scientists to disprove the paranormal, whatever the cost may be. Margaret Matheson More...

By Tim Needles On Thursday, July 5th, 2012
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FILM: The Magic of Belle Isle starring Morgan Freeman

There may be some real magic in Rob Reiner’s new film The Magic of Belle Isle because I managed to connect to the film and enjoy it despite its overtly sappy, sentimental, and often predictable narrative. But More...

By sandsla On Tuesday, June 12th, 2012
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Actresses Greta Gerwig, Zoe Lister-Jones, and director Daryl Wein talk about their new film, Lola Versus

In the new film Lola Versus, starring Greta Gerwig (Greenberg), Lola must pick up the pieces of her life and start over after her long-time boyfriend and fiancĂ©, played by Joel Kinnaman (The Killing), breaks off More...

By Julie Kocsis On Thursday, June 7th, 2012
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FILM: Lola Versus

Lola Versus, the new, coming-of-age film starring Greta Gerwig as a newly single woman in New York, could have been a grating and self-involved re-hashing of a story that I’ve seen several times before. But instead, More...

By Tim Needles On Thursday, May 17th, 2012
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FILM: Hysteria starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy

Merging a classic tale of romance around the true history of the invention of the first vibrator might seem like a difficult combination to pull off but director Tanya Wexler manages to do it with success in the More...

By Daniel Kenner On Thursday, May 10th, 2012
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FILM: Citizen Gangster starring Scott Speedman

More character study than thrilling heist-capades, Nathan Morlando’s Citizen Gangster is a muted biopic of Edwin Boyd, Canada’s sensationalist bank robber in the year’s following World War II. Boyd, a brooding More...

By Casey Hicks On Friday, May 4th, 2012
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FILM: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

On paper, the plot of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel doesn’t sound all that compelling: approaching their twilight years, a motley gang of Brits find themselves the only occupants of a dilapidated hotel in More...

By Tim Needles On Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
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FILM: Last Call at the Oasis

It’s easy to take water for granted in America, even though we are totally dependent on it for survival, but as director Jessica Yu illustrates in her new film, Last Call at the Oasis, it’s an issue More...