“Just when I thought I was out, they pulled be back in” goes the familiar refrain of Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III. This feeling of being trapped in an endless loop
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Owning Mahowny – Review
The film named Owning Mahowny, directed by Richard Kwietniowski is about a bank manager surrounded by two problems, 1. Gambling addiction and 2. Access to a multimillion-dollar account. The screenplay is based on the real story,
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Existenz – Review
There are concepts in cinema so richly complex by nature that filmmakers revisit them again and again, from time travel and artificial intelligence to space exploration and extraterrestrial life. One common thread they all share
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MORE THAN MIYAGI Reveals the Man Behind the Crane Kick
Wax on, wax off. Besides never getting their big break, every actor has one fear: being typecast as their big break. Most of the moviegoing audience only knows Noriyuki “Pat” Morita as the wise Karate
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VFF: EVENTS TRANSPIRING BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER A HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL GAME
What’s a sports movie that features everything but the actual sport? The modern substitute for tribal warfare tends to generate more than a few subplots in it’s periphery and it’s on these bench-warming events that
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VFF: JUKEBOX: THE AMERICAN DREAM, MADE IN QUÉBEC
“When we think of the year ’67-68,” one of Jukebox‘s many interview subjects relates, “Pantis was the king. The numbers are there to prove it.” The son of Greek immigrants, Denis Pantis had dreams of
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