March 2014

‘Non-Stop’ MOVIE REVIEW: Liam Neeson On a Plane Makes for Sky-High Thrills

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Bill Marks, a U.S. air marshal with a mysterious past, begins to receive alarming text messages aboard his flight. The texts, from a mysterious person supposedly on the flight, asks for $150 million – or one person dies every 20 minutes. It’s a nifty-yet-mostly-silly premise, but Non-Stop manages to rise above the plot’s inherit short-comings to deliver …

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Interview: Louise Bourgoin on ‘Going Away’

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Interviewed by Guillermo Troncoso as part of the 2014 Alliance French Film Festival.  Actress-turned-director Nicole Garcia has directed a new drama titled Un beau dimanche, or Going Away in English. The film played at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival to great acclaim. We sat down with lead actress Louise Bourgoin to talk about the film, her character, her director …

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Pompeii REVIEW

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The story of Pompeii is one we’ve heard time and time again. Sadly, director Paul W. S. Anderson’s revisitation of this piece of history doesn’t offer anything new. His film combines elements of historical fiction, action and a love story. It aims high, but misses the mark altogether. Kit Harington, best known for his part …

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