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Going to Movies (Part Three)

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Mark DuPré

Food You’re watching a movie, and you have to undo a candy wrapper. If you can’t cover it with a jacket or something, just, for Pete’s sake, do it quickly. It is majorly irritating to have sometime take 47 seconds … Continue reading →

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Going to Movies (Part 2)

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Mark DuPré

Reprinted with permission from How to Act Like a Grown-Up (http://actlikeagrownup.com/category/interactions/page/2/). If you’re with a group, everyone gets that you’re with a group. But don’t think that being one of 4 or 6 or even more gives you the right … Continue reading →

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Going to the Movies, Part One

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Mark DuPré

Reprinted with permission from How to Act Like a Grown-Up (http://actlikeagrownup.com/category/interactions/page/2/). Watching movies at home is one thing. But once you go into a movie theater, the rules change. (Trust me on this—I’m a film professor and I know about … Continue reading →

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The Artist

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Mark DuPré

What a delight. It definitely helps being a total film nerd when you see it. There are so many film references that make it all the more fun. I noticed references to Singin’ in the Rain, What Price Hollywood?, every … Continue reading →

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Red Tails

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Mark DuPré

Red Tails is rousing, brave, extremely well intentioned, a throwback, and historically revisionist. It’s the tale of the Tuskegee Airmen, African-American fighter pilots in World War II. According to producer George Lucas, the film was to be a throwback to … Continue reading →

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The Iron Lady

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Mark DuPré

The buzz about The Iron Lady is that Meryl Streep is fantastic and the film, just so-so. That’s correct. Sometimes a good film highlights a performance, and that performance is what you walk away remembering. Sophie’s Choice—still in my thinking … Continue reading →

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War Horse

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Mark DuPré

I’m a terrible person. I know that I should like War Horse. It’s not even that I am afraid of/resistant to sentimentality. I fully expected this to be a full-throated emotional and sentimental film, and that would have been OK. … Continue reading →

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The Tree of Life, Part Two

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Mark DuPré

I’m doing the second part to a review of The Tree of Life because I want to address some issues separately, and I don’t want my thoughts and criticisms to be folded into a review that reflects my utmost admiration … Continue reading →

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The Tree of Life, Part One

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Mark DuPré

Why so late? Well, I don’t live in a big city, I’m very busy outside of my life of seeing films, and films don’t play very long anymore before being pulled. If I want to catch them in the theater, … Continue reading →

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The Descendants

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Mark DuPré

Alexander Payne, director of The Descendants, simply has to make more films. Off all the takeaways from this wonderful film, this is the probably the biggest. The Descendants is not a perfect film, but an intelligent, insightful film on a … Continue reading →

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