Tag: US
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Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels, a parody of the popular travel literature at the time, has been endlessly adapted since it was first published back in 1726. A satire on British society and human nature in general, Gulliver’s travels took him to lands of giants, pirates…and even Japan. However, it is his voyage to Lilliput, a…
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Review: Somewhere
REVIEW: Sofia Coppola observes the lifestyles of the rich and infamous.
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The Tourist
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck made his mark on the film world with his 2006 debut feature The Lives of Others, the winner of the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year at the Academy Awards. The study of the German Democratic Republic in the 1980s, during the height of the ‘Stasiland’ era, was a subtle…
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Fair Game
In 2003, the formerly classified CIA operative Valerie Plame was outed in a Washington Post article. Her husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, went on record in various media outlets as saying that the outing was the direct result of his formally contradicting the US position on weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq in…
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Machete
Nobody could ever accuse Robert Rodriguez of sticking to a single genre. After getting his start on the low-budget indie flick El Mariachi, documented in his autobiography Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player, Rodriguez has gone on to direct a variety of genre pics including horror flick…
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The Social Network
Some of you may have heard of Facebook. It’s something about 500 million of you use apparently. Even we’ve got a page there. The social networking site perfectly captured the zeitgeist when it was unleashed onto an unsuspecting public in 2004, with predecessor’s My Space and Friendster already on the scene. Starting out as a…
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Easy A
Judging from the cinematic output of the United States, the national pastime of the school populace is either trying to lose one’s virginity, talking about losing it or having lost it. Over the last decade or so, from the smash hits of the American Pie series to just about anything with Michael Cera in it…
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The Kids Are All Right
Director Lisa Cholodenko first started gaining attention with 1998’s High Art (with Ally Sheedy and Australia’s Radha Mitchell), but it was 2003’s ensemble piece Laurel Canyon that really put Cholodenko on the map. The Kids Are All Right, the latest film from the US director, won a Teddy (the Official Queer Award at the Berlin…
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