Andy's Film Blog

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

Friday, May 31, 2013

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

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A couple (Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Garner) spin a fantastical yarn to a disbelieving social worker (Shohreh Aghdashloo) detailing how, ...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

The Third Man

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An American writer (Joseph Cotten), author of pulpy, dime store novels, travels to postwar Vienna upon learning of the death of his frien...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Sherman's March

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When depressed filmmaker Ross McElwee leaves New York to return home South to film a documentary retracing General Sherman's infamo...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Behind the Candelabra

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Scott Thorson, a lonely animal trainer (Matt Damon) living at home with his foster parents picks up a man at a gay bar and attends a live...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Paths of Glory

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In the trenches of WWI, a vain and callous general (George Macready) orders of suicidal open field which ends with the expected, disastro...
Sunday, May 26, 2013

Dark Horse

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"We have central heating and a/c. What more could you ask for?" An overweight man approaching middle age (Jordan Gelber) live...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Coney Island

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Situated on the Atlantic Ocean, at the southernmost part of Brooklyn near the western mass of Long Island, Coney Island is a small mass o...
Friday, May 24, 2013

Raging Bull

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Jake La Motta's violent and tempermental nature in the ring would spill over into his personal life causing him to hurt and alienate ...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

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From the day his cabbie uncle took him to see Anything Goes on Broadway, nine-year-old Melvin Kaminsky knew he was going to make it in sh...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Gettysburg

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With momentum and confidence on his side, Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Virginia through the Shenandoah Valley in what he believed wo...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

I'm Not There.

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Todd Haynes' I'm Not There  attempts to examine the life of Bob Dylan by telling a story in which six actors in separate vignette...
Monday, May 20, 2013

No Country for Old Men

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The other night I watched Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg , a classic film that held a place in my my mind as a powerful, all-...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

Take This Waltz

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After sharing a moment with an alluring man (Luke Kirby) on a plane, a writer (Michelle Williams) is dismayed to find he lives across the...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

Lost in America

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"You couldn't change you're life on $100,000?" So says an employment agent to a middle aged yuppie (Albert Brooks) who ...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Last Ride

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After committing an undisclosed violent crime and being wanted by the police, an ex-con (Hugo Weaving) visits an ex-girlfriend for sex an...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home

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Born into poverty in Oklahoma, where things would turn even more dire in the latter years of the Dust Bowl, and named after the President...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

The Civil War

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"The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places. From Valverde, New Mexico and Tullahaoma, Tennessee to St. Albans, Vermont and Fernandin...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

I ♥ Huckabees

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An overly thoughtful environmentalist (Jason Schwartzman) seeks the services of an Existential Dectective Agency and its top private inve...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Love Liza

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Relapsing into despair after finding the suicide note of his recently deceased wife, a young man (Philip Seymour Hoffman) takes to huffin...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

Love in the Afternoon

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After eavesdropping on a conversation between her private eye father (Maurice Chevalier) and a client, who threatens the life of a notori...
Saturday, May 11, 2013

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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While an anticipated film adaptation of a classic American novel is being released this week to generally unfavorable reviews, I decided ...
Friday, May 10, 2013

Bruno

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After his personally designed Velcro suit proves disastrous at an international show and making him the laughing stock of the fashion wor...
Thursday, May 9, 2013

Iron Man 3

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After being sucked through a wormhole, destroying the Tesseract, and saving the world from Loki and his alien minions, Tony Stark (Robert...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Sergeant York

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A rowdy backwoods yokel (Gary Cooper), notorious for his raucous ways, sees a vision from God, vows a life of pacifism, and seeks to fulf...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Trance

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An art auction employee (James McAvoy), heavily indebted to a gangster (Vincent Cassel) and familiar with the intricate workings of his f...
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