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2017: Thoughts on Oscar

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Mark DuPré

This year’s nominations are anything but shocking, though you’d think there was drama galore according to some reports. But that’s just an attempt to wring some strum und drang from what is a pretty normal year. Yes, it’s a big … Continue reading →

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Jackie and Hidden Figures

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Mark DuPré

I spent a good portion of my weekend in the early 1960s. First, Jackie, the impressionistic, rather cool story of Jacqueline Kennedy during and shortly after John Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. Most attention has been paid to Natalie Portman’s masterful … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films | Tagged Billy Crudup, Bobby Kennedy, Brechtian, Capote, Caspar Phillipson, Colin Firth, Free State of Jones, Greta Gerwig, Hidden Figures, Jackie, Jacqueline Kennedy, Jim Parsons, John Hurt, John Kennedy, Kirsten Dunst, NASA, Natalie Portman, Octavia Spencer, Peter Sarsgaard, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Red Tails, Taraji P. Henson, The Blind Side, The Help, The King's Speech | Leave a comment

The Accountant

Posted on October 17, 2016 by Mark DuPré

There’s a good film in here somewhere. As it stands now, it’s a good-looking, generally well-acted, occasionally very confusing jumble. Directed by Gavin O’Connor, probably best known for Miracle, The Accountant is the story of an autistic accountant with ninja … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films | Tagged Anna Kendrick, Ben Affleck, Capote, Colin Firth, Gavin O'Connor, J.K. Simmons, John Lithgow, Jon Bernthal, Meryl Streep, Miracle, Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Accountant, The Iron Lady, The King's Speech, The Theory of Everything, Whiplash | Leave a comment

Still Alice

Posted on March 14, 2015 by Mark DuPré

Still Alice is practically an afterthought at this point, and will likely only be remembered as the film that finally brought Julianne Moore her first Oscar (she won as Best Actress earlier this year) after a number of nominations. And … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films | Tagged Alec Baldwin, Annie Hall, Blue Jasmine, Colin Firth, Daniel Day-Lewis, Eddie Redmayne, Julianne Moore, Kate Bosworth, Kristin Stewart, My Left Foot, Nine Months, Philadelphia, Still Alice, The Hunger Games, The King's Speech, The Lost Weekend, The Snake Pit, The Theory of Everything, Woody Allen | 2 Comments

Les Misérables

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Mark DuPré

Les Misérables succeeds on so many levels, I almost lost count. In many ways, it’s a film in the narrow category of films made from sung-through musicals. In that context, it really only has The Phantom of the Opera to … Continue reading →

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