Jonathon Sharp

Movie Blog: ‘John Dies At The End’ Review, Director Q & A

“John Dies at the End” is hard to follow, and to enjoy.

2013/03/08

Movie Blog: ‘No’ Dazzles But Leaves A Bad Taste

Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Oscar, No depicts the story of an advertising whiz kid (Gael García Bernal) as he helps wage a TV infomercial campaign against Chile’s long-ruling dictator.

2013/03/07

Movie Blog: ‘Last Gladiators’ Profiles Hockey’s Beloved & Bloodied Goons

Violence in sports is nothing new.

2013/02/15

Movie Blog: Nordic Lights Film Festival (In Brief)

Attention enthusiasts of all things Nordic and those of Scandinavian blood: a blizzard of movies is making its way from Europe to the St. Anthony Main Theatre.

2013/02/08

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Movie Blog: ‘56 Up’: When Art Goes Anthropology

“56 Up” is the latest entry in a long-running cinematic experiment that follows a group of British people, all from different backgrounds and socio-economic levels, as they make their way through life and its various joys, troubles and heartbreaks.

2013/02/08

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Movie Blog: ‘Brief Encounters’ Review

“Brief Encounters” is a documentary on the life and work of a contemporary American photographer who constructs images – massive, immaculate, indie-movie-scale images – that balance beauty with sadness through a perspective of resounding stillness.

2013/02/01

Movie Blog: ‘Beware Of Mr. Baker’ Review

“Beware of Mr. Baker,” a film detailing the life and music of drummer Ginger Baker, is a documentary as entertaining and impressive as one of Mr. Baker’s solos. It features loads of playing footage, and considerable commentary (both funny and heart-breaking) from the man himself.

2013/01/28

Movie Blog: ‘Only The Young’ Review

“Only the Young,” a documentary playing at St. Anthony Main this coming week, explores the “betweenness” in the lives of a few middle class California kids as they skateboard in suburban ruins and learn about their friends, themselves and what challenges lie beyond high school.

2013/01/25

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Melinda Shopsin)

Movie Blog: ‘The House I Live In’ Review

David Simon is just one of the many talking heads whose insights and opinions make “The House I Live In” a movie of considerable force, especially following a year in which two states legalized the recreational use of marijuana.

2013/01/18

Movie Blog: Top 10 Movies Of 2012

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, at least if you ask the critics that are currently trying to convince you that all 10 of the best movies of the year just happen to have all been released in the last month or two.

2012/12/27

Movie Blog: ‘Rust And Bone’ Wrestles With Love, Human Nature

“Rust and Bone,” a film by Jacques Audiard, explores how our various human natures interact in different relationships and shades of love. But don’t expect something sentimental. Take it from the title: this is raw, a love story of wounds.

2012/12/21

Movie Blog: ‘Wake In Fright’ Review

If your weekend checklist includes a drunken misadventure, you can fit one in vicariously (and avoid the hangover) with ‘Wake in Fright’ — a newly restored 1971 Australian “lost” movie with scenes so grizzly they could make Crocodile Dundee cry.

2012/12/14

Movie Blog: Hanging On For The Ride With ‘Holy Motors’

Elusive, spectacular and fun as hell. Holy Motors, the latest from French auteur Léos Carax, is cinematic goofballs – a ride that nods at classic cinema while simultaneously reflecting on the modern state of man’s now incessantly documented existence.

2012/12/07

"Chasing Ice" Portraits - 2012 Sundance Film Festival

Movie Blog: Harrowing Beauty, Science In ‘Chasing Ice’

‘Chasing Ice,’ a gorgeous and harrowing film by producer/director Jeff Orlowski, follows the photographer James Balog as he captures glaciers in their death throes.

2012/12/07

Movie Blog: Best British Ads Of 2012 @ The Walker

It’s that time of year. Snowflakes fall, sidewalk salt crystals scar your shoes, and the best British ads of the year play at the Walker Art Center.

2012/11/28

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