Posted by James Brown on Tuesday, January 20, 2015,
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A Most Violent Year
Directed By: J. C. Chandor
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo, Alessandro Nivola, and Albert Brooks
Margin Call, All Is Lost, and A Most Violent Year all have something in common, and it's not just that they're the first three feature films by prolific director J. C. Chandor. These terrific movies have not gotten the recognition they deserve at the culmination of awards season. The corporate thriller Margin Call about the 2008 financial crisis notched ju... Continue reading ...
Posted by James Brown on Sunday, March 24, 2013,
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Ginger & Rosa
Directed By: Sally Potter
Starring: Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Alessandro Nivola, Annette Bening, Timothy Spall, Oliver Platt, and Christina Hendricks
There have been a lot of period pieces this month. We've been taken back to post-WWII Germany and Japan in Lore and Emperor. We've been taken to Chile back in the 1980s in No. This weekend, we're being taken back to 1960s London during the height of the Cold War with the United States and the Soviet Union embroiled in a tense fe... Continue reading ...
