The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014)
“Do you ever wonder why we fall in love with a specific person?” The vast majority of us have had the loves of our lives enter and just as easily exit […]
Category Archives: Drama
The Good Lie (2014)
“I’m just supposed to help them find jobs.” Although I don’t outright refuse to watch The Blind Side, I don’t think I have ever enjoyed the movie. It’s superficial to a fault […]
Blue Ruin (2014)
“You point the gun. You shoot the gun.” My junior year of college I took a course on French Cinema, highlighted by the influences and aftereffects of the implemented social structures […]
Happy Christmas (2014)
“You think you could babysit for a few hours?” Take paint thinner to the often glossy and extravagant holiday films and you’ll find yourself with Happy Christmas. Not a whole lot happens, […]
The Babadook (2014)
“It wants to scare you first and then you’ll see it.” How is it possible for such a low-budget, lo-fi horror story to be one of the most chilling and emotionally […]
Beyond the Lights (2014)
“We’re selling fantasy here, and suicide ain’t sexy.” Movies like this just don’t get made anymore. Beyond the Lights borrows from its own title and elevates its conventional and formulaic story to […]
Still Alice (2014)
“I know I’m alive.” The song Dance Me To The End Of Love has Leonard Cohen famously singing, “Show me slowly what I only, know the limits of, dance me to the end […]
The Theory of Everything (2014)
“What’s the probability?” The Theory of Everything can be summed up in one word: serviceable. The Oscar worthy lead performances standout, but besides that this is a pretty average tale about […]
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
“Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.” For some people, the reason for existence is relevance. The possible attainment of ubiquity gets them out of bed in […]
Frank (2014)
“I say, tell everyone everything. Why cover anything up, right?” Remember those balancing bird toys as kids? The ones where you’d put the beak on the tip of your finger […]
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