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Tallgrass Film Festival: Day 2 Preview
Films screen all day at the Orpheum Theatre, Scottish Rite, Central Library, Historical Museum, Garvey Center, Hotel at Old Town and the C.A.C. Theatre at WSU. Click here for Friday’s schedule . Be...
Oct 18, 2013 / StaffDrinking Buddies (2013)
Sexual tension abounds between friends played by Olivia Wilde and Jake Johnson in “Drinking Buddies.” Photo: Magnolia Pictures If “When Harry Met Sally” (1989) is Nora Ephron’s take on Woody Allen,...
Aug 2, 2013 / Eric M. ArmstrongDocumentarist 2013 means more in light of Gezi Resistance
The 6th Istanbul Documentary Days was blessed with an outstanding location for a documentary film festival: a park which has become a cause and a symbol of an urban uprising movement that has spread...
Jul 22, 2013 / N. Buket CengizWin a ‘Seeking a Friend for the End of the World’ prize pack!
About the Film: Studio: Focus Features Starring: Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Connie Britton, Adam Brody, Rob Corddry, Patton Oswalt Directed By: Lorene Scafaria Written By: Lorene Scafaria ( Nick...
Jun 18, 2012 / Eric M. ArmstrongLe Havre (2011)
Aki Kaurismäki is one of those directors whose work is impossible to confuse with anyone else’s. Certainly, his style could be compared to Béla Tarr’s in the somberly staged performance of the...
May 21, 2012 / Alison FrankDIFF 2012 Reviews: ‘Cinema Six,’ ‘Compliance,’ ‘Faith, Love and Whiskey’
“Cinema Six” Directors: Mark Potts, Cole Selix Writers: Mark Potts, Cole Selix Starring: John Merriman, Mark Potts and Brand Rackley “Cinema Six” is the definition of average, which is strange...
May 11, 2012 / Henry J. BaughThings I Don’t Understand (2011)
Hugo Dillon and Molly Ryman in "Things I Don't Understand" Someday, everyone you know won’t exist. Tomorrow doesn’t matter until it’s today. No one makes it through life unscathed, in one way or...
May 2, 2012 / Eric M. ArmstrongA soothing demise: Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’ considered
Kirsten Dunst greets the apocalypse “Melancholia” is Lars von Trier’s intelligent, melodramatic, achingly beautiful and wickedly funny new film. It tells the story of Justine (a transcendent Kirsten...
Jan 18, 2012 / Vanessa Graniello50/50 (2011)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen star in "50/50" Making a comedy about cancer is risky business. Making a comedy about a young, attractive person with cancer is self-sabotage. People don’t go to...
Oct 23, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongDrive (2011)
“Drive” romanticizes a lot of things that shouldn’t be romanticized: The myth of redemptive violence, dangerous and illegal driving, robbery, evading police and, most egregiously, Members Only...
Oct 18, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongAttack the Block (2011)
John Boyega leads a street gang of alien-killers in "Attack the Block" It’s Guy Fawkes Night , and the South London sky is pulsing with brilliant explosions. In the midst of the celebration, Sam...
Sep 14, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Tree of Life (2011)
In 1931 Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel proved what is now known as the Incompleteness Theorem. He demonstrated that within any given system, a robot for example, there would always be at least one...
Jun 27, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongPriest (2010)
Paul Bettany as the ass-kicking, vampire-slaying "Priest" Critics can be a fickle bunch. Lavishing this, lambasting that. But with most films it’s relatively easy to predict the critical response....
May 15, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongHanna (2011)
Saoirse Ronan with a blood-spattered face in "Hanna" Up-and-coming auteur Rian Johnson recently tweeted, “The filmmaking in Hanna was pretty humbling.” That’s high praise coming from the man behind...
Apr 28, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongSource Code (2011)
What would it be like if Alfred Hitchcock directed an episode of “Quantum Leap” with a script based on “Groundhog Day”? Well, it wouldn’t turn out exactly like “Source Code,” but it’d be pretty...
Apr 10, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongRecent Articles
- Review: ‘A War’ explores war’s quiet, forgotten horrors
- TMA FilmCast #33 — Vera Chytilova and the Czech New Wave
- The fantasist: The comic art of Woody Allen
- Tribeca picks up North American rights to ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ at Sundance
- TMA FilmCast #32 — Alison Frank interviews Ana Geislerova
- ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ tops Online Film Critics Awards
- TMA FilmCast #31 — Alison Frank reports from 67th Locarno Film Fest
- 5 ½ hour film dominates awards at Locarno
- Shorts at #Locarno67: meditation vs testing the audience’s patience
- ‘The Fool’: A modern propaganda film
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