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12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave

Movie Review: 12 Years a Slave

On first encountering the 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man drugged and kidnapped from an educated, domestic life by opportunistic slave-traders in Washington D.C., director Steve McQueen felt he had read the “[A...

 
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The Counselor
The Counselor
The Counselor

Trailer Trashin’: Ridley Scott Meets Cormac McCarthy in The Counselor

Happy Fourth of July, dear readers! I hope all of you have a great holiday. On the movie front, we’ll all finally get to see whether The Lone Ranger is any good. In the meantime, this week’s installment of Trailer T...

 
 
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Movie Review: Prometheus

Director Ridley Scott returns to the genre of science fiction (he helped set the standard for the modern sci-fi film with Alien in 1979 and Blade Runner in 1982 but has focused primarily on dramas and action-adventure films sin...