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Review: YOU'RE NEXT 24 Aug 2013 | 03:29 am
The festival audience I saw it with ate it up. You're Next unfolded before a crowd eager to absorb its thrills, from the animal-masked antagonists who lay siege to the home of a rich but obnoxious fam...
Rohan: No Passion for De Palma's Passion 23 Aug 2013 | 05:56 am
When you think of Brian De Palma films, several things come to mind: extended tracking shots; the camera offering a first-person point of view; voyeurism; and twists and turns, with an occasional litt...
CAPSULE!: Frances Ha 22 Aug 2013 | 03:36 am
There's a familiar joy to this story of a young woman (not a very young woman) holding onto a kind of innocence even as the particular realities of life in New York (rent, moving, shifting loyalties w...
Rohan Blazes Away at 2 Guns 16 Aug 2013 | 04:51 am
(TODAY'S GUEST: Re-joining us here at Jaman HQ is Rohan Morbey, who blogs at Stop Thinking For Yourself UK. Rohan has graciously allowed us to post his disappointed review of the new buddy actioner 2 ...
Something We Will NEVER Do To Get You To Click Through 15 Aug 2013 | 12:50 am
The topic of lists came up at the last Editorial meeting (we're quite enjoying using Pinterest to put them together). I'd voiced, somewhat colorfully, my objection to lists that assumed ignorance on t...
Orson Welles, Then, Now, and Beyond... 10 Aug 2013 | 04:59 am
There's a pre-conception, held by too, too many, that Orson Welles' creative career peaked with Citizen Kane, his first feature. The idea goes that his long record of unfinished projects, lost reels, ...
Stephen Elliott Makes Movies Because He Wants To 8 Aug 2013 | 11:25 pm
"Happy Baby is a most impressive little novel, heartbreakingly and bewilderingly alive in a way most bigger books can’t even imagine." -- Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com That was just the beginning of the p...
Rohan! Canyons! Utter Trash! 8 Aug 2013 | 01:54 am
(TODAY'S GUEST: Re-joining us here at Jaman HQ, for the second time this week (!), is Rohan Morbey, who blogs at Stop Thinking For Yourself UK. Rohan has graciously allowed us to post his VERY disappo...
Rohan Sees Red (2) 6 Aug 2013 | 12:16 am
Without fear of reducing a review to its simplest common denominator, if you liked 2010’s RED then you’re going to like RED 2 just as much, maybe even more. If you didn’t like the first film, then you...
Why I'm Dying To See The To Do List 3 Aug 2013 | 12:52 am
(TODAY'S GUEST: Pleased to bring back Laurie Mundy, who would love to tell you her thoughts on The To Do List. If they'd let her see it. Laurie's other writings can be found at Klat, and we encourage ...
