Tag: Elle Fanning

Blu-ray Review: 20th Century Women

[amazon_link asins=’B01MRA563W’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’f97317b0-1802-11e7-91bf-49520dc3cf9e’] Santa Barbara, California, 1979. Dorothea (Annette Bening) is a single mom in her mid-fifties doing her best to raise her fifteen-year old son Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann). Home is a big, old, construction zone…

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Blu-ray Review: Live by Night

For his fourth film in the director’s chair, Ben Affleck again turns to the work of Boston crime author Dennis Lehane, this time for Live by Night. Back in 2007, Affleck made his directorial debut by adapting Lehane’s Gone Baby…

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The Neon Demon (Blu-ray)

The latest offering from director Nicolas Winding Refn, Neon Demon is his version of a horror film, filled with pulsating music and florescent lighting. Whatever. A cutting commentary on the fashion industry, The Neon Demon is pretentious and boring. Horror…

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Trumbo (Blu-ray)

One of the most talented and reliable screenwriters during Hollywood’s famed Golden Age, today, Dalton Trumbo is likely better known as a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of ten screenwriters, directors, and producers cited for contempt of Congress…

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Blu-ray Review: Super 8

J.J. Abrams’ ode to childhood memories, mixed with appreciation for Steven Spielberg’s films can’t possibly recreate the magical experience of say ET or Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but damned if he doesn’t come close. Abrams does such a…

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