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Gravity (2013)
Despite the overwhelming positivism, both in reviews and ratings and award show gold, “Gravity” suffers from the same nausea ad infinitum that often relegates it to little more than a snappily dressed carny barker inviting the wanderer to navigate the tent poles of what will become a scattered visit to theater of the absurd. Continue reading
Posted in Movie I've Seen, Movie Makers & Shakers, Movies You Should or Should Not See, My Review of Their Review:, On DVD, Online, philosophy and film, Rants & Raves
Tagged 2013, above the line, alfonso cuaron, asteroid movie, CGI space drama, children of men director, Christopher DeFaria, Dr. Ryan Stone, drama, ed harris, effects-driven storytelling, Emmanuel Lubezki, epic, Film, george cloooney, gravity, Jonás Cuarón, Mark Sanger, Mathew Arnold, Matt Kowalsky, movie review, practical movie reviews, rory dean, sandra bullock, sci-fi, shuttle, space, spacewalk
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Concussion (2013)
Writer-Director Stacie Passon’s 2013 film “Concussion” masterfully crafts the complexity of inward glances to produce a quality of deafening silence that fills the screen with the unconveyable voracity of wounded hearts. Continue reading
Posted in Movie I've Seen, Movie Makers & Shakers, Movies You Should or Should Not See, My Review of Their Review:, On DVD, Online, philosophy and film, Rants & Raves
Tagged 2013, above the line, affluent suburban housewife, comfy mirrors of normalcy, concussion, David Kruta, identity crisis, Johnathan Tchaikovsky, Julie Fain Lawrence, lesbian bed death, LGBT films, maggie siff, malaise, mid lifer crisis, practical movie reviews, queer cinema, robin weigert, rory dean, Rose Troche, stacie passon
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