NYAFF Review: The Bullet Vanishes
There’s an observation in This Is Spinal Tap that sums up the dilemma of many detective stories: there’s a fine line between clever ...
Tag: Mystery
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Review: Now You See Me
I love magic. I always have. If you suspend your disbelief that magic’s not real (kind of like wrestling), it can take you ...
Update: Veronica Mars movie Kickstarter a dream come true
Update: And it’s been funded. The goal of $2 million was reached in just 10 hours and as of this writing has been ...
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Review: In the House
There’s a great short story in Richard Yates’s Eleven Kinds of Loneliness called “Builders.” In it, one of the characters naively but sincerely ...
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Review: Upstream Color
Part of me wants to wait until I fully understand every facet of Upstream Color before I review it, but a larger part ...
Interview: Jason Dohring (Searching for Sonny)
Many of you remember Jason Dohring from the cult TV-show Veronica Mars. As the lovable bad-boy Logan, Dohring showcased and honed his talents to a ...
The Girl That Played With Fire not happening in 2013
Good things come to those who wait, they say, so hopefully that means the wait for a sequel to The Girl With The ...
Brad Bird boarding Damon Lindelof’s mysterious 1952
Having stated he is unlikely to return to the Mission: Impossible franchise, director Brad Bird has found his next gig in the shape ...
Book: Sherlock Holmes On Screen (Updated Edition)
Sherlock Holmes turns 125 this year. He will likely endure much, much longer, especially given the success of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movies ...
Sony pushing forward with Dragon Tat-two
See what I did there? Anyway, despite David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo struggling both critically (although all of Flixist’s reviewers ...
Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
I’ve gone on record stating that American remakes of foreign movies are about as stupid an idea as mixing scotch with vodka. Look ...
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Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
When the first Sherlock Holmes film hit I was pleasantly surprised by both its quality and its take on the character. While it wasn’t ...