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VIDEO ESSAY: Sizing up camera, editing choices in ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ clip

Zach Parker May 26, 2016
On “My Name is Magneto” clip from 20th Century Fox’s new picture, “X-Men: Apocalypse”: Sometimes filmmakers can’t shoot all the same players on the same set at the same …
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Best Movies of 2015 List

Zach Parker March 29, 2016
  Yes, my Best of 2015 movie list is a little late. But I wrote it anyway because I hope you seek out these movies, if you haven’t enjoyed …
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Ex Machina
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The terminator is a god: ‘Ex Machina’ as Garland’s response to ‘Sunshine’ backlash

Zach Parker July 8, 2015
There’s a nobility in facing the end with no way out. That’s the gist of Aristotle’s defense of Tragedy in “Poetics.” Compared to those movies before and since, Orson …
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Top Ten motion pictures of 2014

Zach Parker February 22, 2015
A few notes: – I had originally intended to post reviews on each of my Top Ten before posting the list. That did not happen since I am still …
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The register of bullies in ‘Blackhat’

Zach Parker January 21, 2015
Michael Mann is not an idea man. That’s Michael Keaton’s Bill in “Night Shift.” Bill is the man distracted to uselessness by his own ideas like eliminating garbage with …
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The son sees the father in ‘The Two Faces of January’

Zach Parker January 15, 2015
Bad things happen at night. That’s the impression you get after watching “The Two Faces of January,” a nimble story of betrayal set in Greek cities and ruins where …
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Reece Shearsmith offers a whiny prayer as Whitehead in Ben Wheatley's "A Field in England" (2014).
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17th century begets horror in ‘A Field in England’

Zach Parker January 14, 2015
For a 90-minute movie that spends all of its time in a field during daylight hours, you never hear any birds. The absence of avian chirping indicates purpose behind …
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Wishing for more from ‘Into the Woods’

Zach Parker January 7, 2015
Before outlining a response to the recent movie adaptation of the musical “Into the Woods,” I want to draw out some general slips in some of the approaches to the …
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Shot-By-Shot: More than 100 reasons why I love Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’

Zach Parker September 4, 2014
There are few movies that have arrested the public’s imagination and exposed a specific fear as thoroughly as Steven Spielberg’s 1975 motion picture, “Jaws.”  Ask anyone who saw it …
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“Noah,” or Nightmares of the Fall and Flood

Zach Parker March 29, 2014
Unlike many epic motion pictures, Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah” zips forcefully through its narrative, an ambitious retelling of the ark and the great flood that delivers on biblical proportions—cubits, floodwaters, …
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Magneto-X-Men-Apocalypse

VIDEO ESSAY: Sizing up camera, editing choices in ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ clip

Winter sleep 1

Best Movies of 2015 List

Ex Machina

The terminator is a god: ‘Ex Machina’ as Garland’s response to ‘Sunshine’ backlash

The Congress 1

Top Ten motion pictures of 2014

chris-hemsworth-blackhat-movie

The register of bullies in ‘Blackhat’

Two Faces of January 1

The son sees the father in ‘The Two Faces of January’

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