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Just wondering… Now that the Ian Fleming canon is nearly exhausted and they’ll have to start making up new names, will all future James Bond films have titles with two words containing an ‘O’ so they...
View ArticlePenn’s Quad in New ‘Transformers’ Trailer
Although this has been reported elsewhere, in case you missed it, the University of Pennsylvania’s Quad is featured in the new trailer for this summer’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Director...
View ArticleKnowing Alex Proyas’s ‘Knowing’
Whether Deterministic or Random, the One Thing We Know Alex Proyas’s 2009 film Knowing is a science fiction thriller wrapped inside a philosophical discourse. But a discourse about what? Roger Ebert...
View Article‘Margin Call': Quiet Desperation
This commentary on the film Margin Call contains significant details about its plot. You may want to see the film before reading it. Economic thriller Margin Call is, in many ways, a difficult film to...
View ArticleNeal Dhand’s ‘Second-Story Man’
Second-Story Man, Neal Dhand’s feature film debut, is a moody drama that, despite pacing problems and a somewhat meandering narrative, unfolds as a thoughtful meditation on morality. In cold, snowy...
View ArticleMovie Title Misdirection and Meaning: ‘Gravity’ and ‘Cast Away’
This article contains major spoilers for the movies Gravity and Cast Away. If you haven’t seen both films, you may not want to read it. Sandra Bullock floating in the absence of gravity in ‘Gravity’....
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