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Brew Views: Being John Malkovich

Malkovich Malkovich.


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Halfway through the Spike Jonze/Charlie Kaufman peculiarity Being John Malkovich, the actor is expelled from within his own head and onto the New Jersey Turnpike, where he’s promptly beaned in t   More
 
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 AP KRYZA

Brew Views: Purple Rain

Purify yourself.


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It’s a testament to Prince’s musical genius that no one remembers Purple Rain for the horrendous acting and blatant misogyny. If he hadn’t written the greatest movie soundtrack of all time t   More
 
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Brew Views: The Kid With a Bike

We need to talk about Cyril.


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Cyril is the kid in The Kid With a Bike, and he’s got some issues. A pale, sinewy 11-year-old, he’s been discarded by his parents at a Belgian boys’ home. He’s almost feral: He scampers    More
 
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Brew Views: Jeff, Who Lives at Home

How I lived with my mother.


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The title of Jeff, Who Lives at Home tells you a lot about what sort of movie this might be: downtrodden, acerbic, commuting between office parks and Mom’s basement. And for the first 45 minut   More
 
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 AARON MESH

Brew Views: Point Break

Put down the cellphone, squid brain.


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“If you want the ultimate, you have to pay the ultimate price.” It’s one of the many pearls of wisdom Patrick Swayze’s Zen-surfing/bankrobbing/skydiving/beach-footballing villain Bodhi s   More
 
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 AP KRYZA

Brew Views: The Hunter

Man versus wild.


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Willem Dafoe hunts a rare tiger in the jungles of Tasmania? Sign me the fuck up! Like The Grey, whose trailer insinuated Liam Neeson would spend the movie killing wolves with his bare hands, a one   More
 
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Brew Views: Casa de Mi Padre

Y tu caca tambien.


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The best joke of Casa de Mi Padre is that it exists at all. Nearly entirely in Spanish, with Will Ferrell playing a Mexican ranching heir alongside Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, the film is   More
 
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 AARON MESH

Brew Views: The Maltese Falcon

It’s bad business.


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Let’s all take a moment to thank George Raft for The Maltese Falcon. Sure, he’s not actually in it—that’s why we’re grateful. The blank chorus boy with the tough-guy mug made a second ca   More
 
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 AARON MESH

Brew Views: The Dirty Dozen

War machine.


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Earlier this year, the George Lucas-produced Red Tails tried (and failed) to tell the inspiring story of the Tuskegee Airmen by resurrecting the corny, flag-waving 1940s war picture—the exact ki   More
 
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Brew Views: Rock ’n’ Roll High School

Subterranean blackboard jungle.


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Essentially the Ramones’ A Hard Day’s Night, 1979’s Rock ’n’ Roll High School takes place in a parallel dimension to our own, a Bizarro World where preppy pretty boys pine after weirdo p   More
 
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER
 

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