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Johnny Depp in Scott Cooper’s ‘Black Mass’
A study in menace
Other actors have had a go at the Whitey Bulger persona, but they were mainly based on Bulger. Johnny Depp is Whitey Bulger, having spent two and a half hours daily getting into the prosthetic face that coldly surveys his Southie criminal kingdom and perfecting the Boston accent with which he delivers his satanic commands.
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4 minute read
There's more to movies than special effects
Cartoonized: A rant on the digital age
Hollywood needs to relearn to use lower-tech, more creative ways to draw in audiences and tell stories. Just because we have the ability to use special effects technologies doesn’t mean we always should.
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Bryan Fuller's 'Hannibal' (second review)
Sympathy for the devil
Hannibal is a retelling of Goethe’s Faust in which FBI profiler Will Graham/Faust and Dr. Hannibal Lecter/Mephistopheles fall in love.
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'Listen to Me Marlon' (second review)
Still asking questions of Marlon Brando
Stevan Riley’s documentary Listen to Me Marlon impressionistically and unevenly surveys the career of America’s greatest film actor, and its ultimate wreckage.
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'Best of Enemies': The Buckley-Vidal debates of 1968
The documentary Best of Enemies revisits 1968’s game-changing TV debate between two cultural titans, William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal.
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3 minute read
'Listen to Me Marlon' directed by Stevan Riley
The genius of Marlon Brando
In the new documentary Listen to Me Marlon, if we didn’t know it already, we are convinced of the genius of Marlon Brando and the significance of his artistic contribution.
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5 minute read
Second season of 'True Detective' (second review)
Fortune cookie dialogue and a plot out of 1985
Season one of True Detective was flawed but extremely enjoyable. I watched season two hoping week by week that it would get better. It didn’t.
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The failure of 'True Detective'’s second season
The show we deserve?
The tagline for the second season of True Detective was “We get the world we deserve.” I’m not sure what I did to deserve this mess of a season, but whatever it was, I’m sorry.
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USA Network’s ‘Mr. Robot’
Fight Club meets Macbeth
Don’t let the somewhat silly title fool you. Mr. Robot is one of the most intense and thrilling viewing experiences of the summer.
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4 minute read
Jon Stewart: An appreciation
Jon Stewart ate my homework
With a rich history of 20th-century political comedians speaking truth to power, Jon Stewart firmly held a standard of intelligence and hilarity that few have equaled.
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3 minute read