If you’ve listened to the Critic Speak Podcast in recent months, you know that James and Danny have been pretty disappointed in this year’s crop of summer blockbusters. But even when summer movies aren’t so good, what never changes is the dependable pleasure of movie theater concessions. And what could help ease your suffering during …
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Normally, when you read about Cornetto on a film blog like Critic Speak, it’s in reference to filmmaker Edgar Wright’s “Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy,” starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, which was named in loving tribute to the venerable ice cream cone. But surprise: that series is not the subject of this post (though, yes, …
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Whether you remember AMC’s “Small Town Security” as the reality show you laughed at endlessly last year or simply the program that came on after “Breaking Bad,” you owe it to yourself to check out the above preview. “Small Town Security,” which focuses on the daily hijinks of a family-owned private security company in Ringgold, …
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As has been widely reported, the beloved action director Tony Scott committed suicide last week by jumping off of a bridge in Los Angeles. We here at Critic Speak thought that we would take a moment to share our favorite Scott films… Danny Baldwin – “Domino” (2005) It would be difficult to argue that Tony …
As you may know, the British magazine Sight & Sound recently published the results of its once-a-decade Critics Poll on the best films of all-time. None of us here at Critic Speak were asked to participate (shocker), so we have decided to publish a short piece on the films that we think most deserved to …
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There are five new options for home viewing this week. We’ve got you covered… Coriolanus, actor Ralph Fiennes’ directorial debut, is a post-modern treatment of Shakespeare, but those hoping for the exuberance of Baz Lurhman’s Romeo + Juliet had best stay far away. Here, Fiennes and writer John Logan transplant the Bard of Avon’s dialogue–largely …
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On tap this week: five new home viewing options. Here are our capsule reviews… Certified Copy was the cinephile’s head-scratcher of 2011, a beautiful film about the afternoon spent between a man (opera singer William Shimell) and a woman (the incomparable Juliette Binoche). What first appears to be a cerebral character piece along the lines …
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There are a lot of new home viewing options available this week, but only one of them (The Grey) is particularly good. Unless you happen to like chick-flicks, in which case Katherine Heigl’s One for the Money is also a solid bet. Here’s our full round-up… Glenn Close had reportedly been shilling Albert Nobbs around …
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New selections available for home viewing this week: Haywire is Steven Soderbergh’s star-studded experiment in genre filmmaking, a modest action film that struggles with its own low aim. It’s a curious exercise seeing a prolific auteur approach a task that he likely thinks is beneath him, resulting in a work that’s appealing and exciting at …
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This Tuesday is light on new home viewing releases, but two noteworthy films (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and Shame) do hit store shelves. Some obvious advice: If you like blockbusters, stick with the former; if you like art films that deal with tough subjects, go with the latter. Or do the opposite and risk the consequences of artistic discovery. Click through for capsule reviews from our team.
