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Happy Belated Birthday Mr. Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick would’ve turned 80 years old yesterday. He was the director I latched onto in high school when I first began to look at movies as an art form. Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was the movie that did it and that’s why I keep the [...]

Leo Rising

Misty Upham and Melissa Leo in Frozen River
It seems strange to say an actress is on the rise when she’s been in 70 film and television productions including 21 Grams, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and most famously TV’s Homicide: Life on the Streets, but buzz is building around Melissa Leo.
She stars in Courtney Hunt’s [...]

Polish Brothers Navigate Indie Waters

Michael and Mark Polish – Photo by Stephanie Diani for The New York Times
“The studios have really priced themselves out of a certain type of movie. They either want to make it for a limited amount of money, or they’ll go through the roof. We actually were in a meeting with a studio where they [...]

Review: Step Brothers (2008) * 1/2

1.5 laughs