This week finds the release of American Sniper and Blackhat—two films I have already watched during the Awards, a.k.a. screener season. The former is a Clint Eastwood film perfectly fitting the Oscar mold; the latter being Michael Mann‘s under-sung work, which some imagine if titled “American Hacker” would have had ‘better chances’ in the awards
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What’s Next: 15 Trends in Cinema
As 2015 seeps in to our lives, here are 15 trends inferred from happenings within festivals, on mainstream sensibilities, and to the vast wide world of the internet from the past year. Some of these trends have been building up through the years while others are things that come and
M. (Mother’s Maiden Name)
M. (Mother’s Maiden Name) tries to respond to two questions: (1) What does your mother’s maiden name mean to you? (2) What do you do when dealt with an illness on its terminal phase? For the first, the dramedy explicitly responds through a direct answer coming from the icy, meticulous, career-driven