Andy's Film Blog

A blog dealing with either the joy of cinema or the agony of cinema--nothing in between.

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Looper

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By the year 2074, time travel will not only have been invented, but swiftly banned, available solely on the black market for use by gangs...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Funny Girl

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Fanny Brice, star of the Ziegfeld Follies, walks into the theater hosting her latest act and, taking a seat in the audience before the pe...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

Johnny Belinda

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A deaf and mute young woman (Jane Wyman) ekes out a joyless existence on her father's farm in Nova Scotia until a local country docto...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Wallander

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Series 3 Season 3 of "Wallander" sees the depressed Ystad detective track a religious arsonist, travel across the Baltic Sea t...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

The Five-Year Engagement

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A San Francisco sous chef (Jason Segel) and a British post graduate student (Emily Blunt) meet at a New Year's Party, fall instantly ...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Trouble with the Curve

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A grizzled, veteran scout (Clint Eastwood), losing his vision and vehemently stuck in his ways, finds himself being forced out by the Atl...
Sunday, September 23, 2012

Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals

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Magic Johnson and Larry Bird couldn't have been further apart as individuals, Magic an easy going extrovert from a working class fami...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

The Master

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In the waning days of WWII, a bored and somewhat brutish midshipman (Joaquin Phoenix) goofs off with his comrades, and returns home to a ...
Friday, September 21, 2012

The Philadelphia Story

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As a fiercely independent socialite (Katharine Hepburn) welcomes guests for her second marriage at her family estate, a tabloid rag sends...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

La Ronde

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In Vienna at the turn of the 20th Century , a transcendent guide (Anton Walbrook) leads us on a journey of love as a prostitute meets a s...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

My Favorite Year

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An over-the-hill, swashbuckling star of the silver screen of decades yore is slated to appear on the popular King Kaiser Show (great titl...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

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A withered and tried intelligence officer returns home to London after losing one of his undercover agents while trying to cross the East...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Darling

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A gorgeous, shallow woman goes from bored housewife to Italian princess, literally screwing her way through London high society to the to...
Sunday, September 16, 2012

Of Mice and Men

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In the heart of the Great Depression, kindly, but worn out George and his feeble minded charge Lenny escape their latest fiasco and head ...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Synecdoche, New York

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A local playwright and theater director in upstate New York receives an illustrious grant, moves to the city, and, inside the confines of...

Deja Vu

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On the first Mardi Gras following Hurricane Katrina, as the city of New Orleans struggles to rebuild, a terrorist detonates a massive car...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Compliance

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On a morning which has already seen a food spoilage totaling $15,000 dollars in damage, the manager of an Ohio fast food chain receives a...
Monday, September 10, 2012

Why Going to the Movies Sucks

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I'm just going to skip over the part where I proclaim my love for film and get straight to the point: going to the movies today suc...

Arbitrage

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A Wall Street bigwig (Richard Gere) outwardly seems to have it made - billions of dollars, a doting wife (Susan Sarandon), a beautiful an...

The Glass Key

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A shady politician (Brian Donleavy) errantly backs a candidate (Moroni Olsen), solely to land in the arms of his knockout daughter (Veron...
Saturday, September 8, 2012

The Stunt Man

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A Vietnam veteran (Steve Railsback), on the run from law enforcement, encounters an old Packard on a bridge during the pursuit, and inadv...
Friday, September 7, 2012

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

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Philip Glass is the reserved, minimalist composer who is famous for his resounding, hypnotic, and intentionally redundant pieces. Over th...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Young Mr. Lincoln

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An aimless Abraham Lincoln leaves his log cabin in Kentucky and moves to Springfield, Illinois where he picks up the practice of law, and...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Frankenstein

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In his 2011 production of Frankenstein for the Royal National Theater, Danny Boyle and playwright Nick Dear proposed two remarkable takes...
Sunday, September 2, 2012

Mrs. Miniver

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When war breaks out in England, the middle class Minivers do everything they can to aid the struggle: Patriarch Clem (Walter Pidgeon) joi...
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