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Dallas Buyers Club
Dallas Buyers Club takes us back to the early period of the AIDS epidemic, when ignorance and homophobia stood in the way of progress...
Inside Llewyn Davis
Whenever we regard a period of history as an age of innocence, it tells more about our wishes in the present than it does...
Go For Sisters
John Sayles holds a unique place in American film. For over three decades, he’s written and directed smart independent films on his own terms,...
Great Expectations
The best film version of Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations, I think almost everyone would agree, is David Lean’s 1946 film. It conveys the...
Gravity
Gravity, directed by Alfonso Cuaron, steps away from the Star Trek / Star Wars type outer space film we’ve become used to, with their...
A Hijacking, and Captain Phillips
There have been two films this year featuring a ship being hijacked by Somali pirates. This is, of course, a very topical subject. Although...