Boyhood (Linklater, 2014)
Like a Wes Anderson film, but without all the twee.
Author: kenmorefield
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Masters of Sex Episode 2.4 Recap: Dirty Jobs
It is perhaps too early to write off the sophomore year as a disappointment, but it is no longer too early to call its unevenness a trend.
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The Most Neglected Verse in Christian Culture Wars…
I don't think I'm holier than anyone who watches what I don't.
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Levitated Mass (Pray, 2013)
Levitated Mass is one of those delightful, obscure but unheralded documentaries that always seems to congregate around my the bottom of my list of annual favorites.
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Get on Up (Taylor, 2014)
Even if, like me, you care little for Brown's music, there is still a lot in the film about race, gender relations, friendship, loyalty, sacrifice, childhood, and determination to give you plenty to think about.
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Masters of Sex Episode 2.3 Recap: Fight
The don't-call-it-an-affair between Virginia Johnson and Bill Masters has been the one element of Masters of Sex that most blatantly deviates from Thomas Maier's biography of the same title.
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Revisiting Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales–Suzanne’s Career
For all of Rohmer's honesty about the emotional cowardice of (young) men, these films stop short of simply man-bashing.
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The Thin Place #48: Lucy–God or Godlike?
Lucy is a summer popcorn movie, to be sure. But when a movie has this much God symbolism, you can bet The Thin Place is going to ponder what it all is supposed to mean.
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The Purge: Anarchy Prize Pack Giveaway (Completed)
Want a survival pack? Simply run your mouse over the GIFs below to control the scene, and then leave a comment saying what you would do to try to survive Purge Night if you were a character in the movie. If your strategy includes one of the items from your survival kit, I'll count your entry twice!
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Vera Drake (Leigh, 2004) — 10 Years Later
Vera Drake eschews argument, which I would normally say is a good thing, but what we are left with is a woman whose moral goodness (and the goodness of her cause) is assumed rather than demonstrated.