Review: The Town
First let me get something off my chest. Ben Affleck, just like his superior actor friend Matt Damon, did not come up from ...
Tag: Drama
Trailers
Trailer: Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day isn’t the Life TV channel family drama you’re probably expecting. Instead this remake focuses on a group of brothers whose bank ...
Reviews
Review: Blue Valentine
The doomed relationship movie has been done a million times before, its pedigree spanning virtually every era and genre of film. Ingmar Bergman ...
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Review: The Fighter
If there’s just one film to watch in theaters right now, it’s not Black Swan. The Fighter brings out a knockout real life story combined with ...
Movies
Review: Black Swan
There is absolutely no denying that Darren Aronofsky is one of modern film’s masters. He’s only five films into his career and already ...
Trailer: Battle: Los Angeles
Whoa, suddenly I have a “most anticipated movie of 2011” that I can name! Move over District 9, this film looks like it’s ...
Reviews
Review: For Colored Girls
For Colored Girls is based on Ntozake’s first of fifteen plays, and left me confident that For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide ...
Movies That Changed Us: Eternal Sunshine
[Movies That Changed Us is a feature we are running for the first two weeks of Flixist’s life. We’re using it as a ...
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Review: Stone
Stone, directed by John Curran (The Painted Veil), unites Robert De Niro and Edward Norton as two opposing characters whose stories eventually begin ...
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Review: The Assistant
Corporate America is an exceptionally terrible place to find individualism. After decades of systemic abuse and routine overworking going unreported, we’re finally starting ...
Fox confirms BH90210 is the end of the series
In this modern era of reboots and remakes, it was no surprised that the “classic” 90s series Beverly Hills, 90210 got a reboot. ...
Movies
NYFF Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Midway through Céline Sciamma’s masterful Portrait of a Lady on Fire, we get the film’s thematic archstone. So much of this painterly, poetic ...