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Sundance 2013 First Impression: STOKER Delivers on Director Park's Brand

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Sundance 2013 First Impression: STOKER Delivers on Director Park's Brand

Sundance 2013 First Impression: STOKER Delivers on Director Park's Brand

Posted: 20 Jan 2013 07:57 PM PST

It's been a long wait for Park Chan-wook's (Oldboy) English language debut, but that wait is finally over. Stoker is here - and boy will Park fans be happy. A highly stylized mystery, the film delivers what the South Korean auteur does best: moody mise-en-scene with intense moments of ultra-violence. This is a dark, dark story, yet somehow Park is able to impart a safeness that allows the audience to sit back and enjoy the thrill ride. Stars Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman, and particularly Mia Wasikowska all shine. One particularly heated scene will really get people buzzing about an all-grown-up Wasikowska. Fox Searchlight already own US distribution rights and the March 1 release should see healthy business and a lot of new Park fans....

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Sundance 2013 Review: THE SPECTACULAR NOW is an Important Coming-of-Age Movie About Teens for Adults

Posted: 20 Jan 2013 05:50 PM PST

The late John Hughes was the man in Hollywood who understood teenagers and teen angst better than anyone else in the industry. He knew how to tell beautiful stories about how sometimes being young can be weird and confusing, and brought this to life on film flawlessly. The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles are timeless classics, not only because they're good storytelling and star Molly Ringwald, but because their depiction of high school life is still accurate to this very day. The older the audience is, the more the films become relatable. This brings me to James Ponsoldt's The Spectacular Now, which is perhaps the most important adult-oriented film about the victories and woes of high school life in the last decade.Free spirited closet-alcoholic...

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Slamdance 2013 Review: BEST FRIENDS FOREVER Ends The World With Classic DIY Spunk

Posted: 20 Jan 2013 09:16 AM PST

Brea Grant's debut feature Best Friends Forever is essentially a B-movie. And that's a compliment. So then is it an essential B-movie? Imagine if Roger Corman gave a couple of Punky, feminist chicks a bundle of money to make a movie and the result is an apocalypse road trip movie that is just as grim as it is bad-ass, just as endearingly sweet as it is melancholic, and just plain fun and funny. A crowd-pleaser for the generation that grew up on midnight movies, underground B&W comics, indie music and thrift store shopping, Best Friends Forever checks all the genre boxes with spunk and a bit of bite.Grant stars as Harriet, a comic-book artist who is moving to Austin for Grad School. Minus her best...

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