All posts by Dash Finley
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DVD Pick of the Week: Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
The past few years have seen veteran Danish thesp Mads Mikkelsen take the English-language film world by storm with a string of plum roles, ranging...
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Chloë Grace Moretz Delivers a Mature, Powerhouse Performance in If I Stay
Unlike their faceless demographic base, YA novels have matured as of late. Whereas the first wave of teen fiction in the mid-2000s was focused on...
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DVD Pick of the Week: The Quiet Ones
For almost 60 years(!), British-based production company Hammer has been churning out horror films. Some of them are classics, and some of them are shlock,...
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Review: Film Adaptation of The Giver Arrives Too Late
At the risk of having my millennial card revoked, I must admit that I’ve never read Lois Lowry’s seminal YA sci-fi novel The Giver. One...
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DVD Pick of the Week: Filth
One of my personal favorite sub-genres is the good ol’ “cop gone wild” flick. Prime examples of this stripe include Abel Ferrara’s classic Bad Lieutenant,...
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DVD Pick of the Week: Oculus
Whereas 2013 was one of the finest years in recent memory for horror cinema, with releases such as The Conjuring and Evil Dead, 2014 has...
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DVD Pick of the Week: Marty
In this age of Seth Rogen, the big screen is jam-packed with romantic leading men who don’t exactly qualify as classically handsome. However, back in...
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Film Review: An Entirely Too Happy Christmas
There is this to be said about Happy Christmas: It has a fitting title. Indeed, this is a film about happy people feeling happy, set...
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Film Review: Le Chef, a Light and Comedic Bite of French Cuisine
Unlike Jon Favreau’s inert, bloating vanity piece, Chef, this francophone Le Chef actually is in possession of a little thing called charm. Directed by French...
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Film Review: Fine Performances in Character-Based Drama, A Most Wanted Man
For the past 50 years, British author John le Carré has churned out masterworks of espionage fiction. Drawing from his own experience as an MI6...
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DVD Pick of the Week: Blue Ruin
Ever since the 1974 Charles Bronson classic, Death Wish, rocked audiences, revenge movies have proved a reliable outlet for proficient if workmanlike directors to deliver...
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DVD Pick of the Week: Lake Placid Collector’s Edition
Hollywood’s fascination with giant monsters goes in cycles. Currently, audiences are being besieged by re-imaginings of the 1960s Japanese Tokusatsu, with blockbusters such as Gareth...
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Film Review: Land Ho! – A Baby Boomer Buddy Comedy Road Trip
For years, older movie-goers have complained of being frozen out by Hollywood’s development cycle. As studios cranked out action spectacles aimed at the 25-and-under set,...
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Kirk Acevedo Shows Off Edgy Side in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Another product of this cynical cinematic age of reboots and re-imaginings, 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes seemed from the outset to be...
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DVD Pick of the Week: The Raid 2
When brutal Indonesian action flick The Raid: Redemption hit theaters back in 2011, I thought I had reached movie mecca. To my sensibilities, it was...
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DVD Pick of the Week: Cry-Baby (Director’s Cut)
Freaky auteur John Waters has made a career out of bringing his own brand of shock-humor and surrealism into the underground film world. Low-budget titles...
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DVD Pick of the Week: 300: Rise of an Empire
Full disclosure: I don’t care for 300. It’s not so much the movie itself, but more so the way in which it molded the entire...
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Film Review: Musical Numbers in Jersey Boys Make It Impossible to Keep Your Toes From Tapping
Based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, Jersey Boys chronicles the rise, fall and redemption of iconic ’60s pop group the Four...
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Film Review: World War II Through the Eyes of a Swedish Journalist in The Last Sentence
World War II lasted only six years, but judging by the amount of films made about the time period, one might assume it spanned six...
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DVD Pick of the Week: Almost Human
At once a loving homage to vintage slasher tropes and a spare sci-fi thriller of a more contemporary stripe, 2013’s micro-budget horror Almost Human mostly...
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DVD Pick of the Week: True Detective: Season One
During this heady, small-screen “golden age” of ours, the “Mad Men”s and “Breaking Bad”s of the world have heightened audience expectations to such a degree...
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