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Without a Press Pass: Review: "Trainwreck"

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Without a Press Pass. Reviews, Awards and Festival Coverage, Trailers, and miscellany from an industry outsider. Saturday, July 18, 2015. Though by no means as sharp as her sketch show, Amy Schumer's leap to the big screen couldn't have come at a better time. Having finished up a third season of her acclaimed Comedy Central series (which featured an award-worthy 12 Angry Men. Send up), Schumer is one of the most talked about people on the comedy scene. Rightfully so, as her first feature Trainwreck.

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Without a Press Pass: March 2015

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Without a Press Pass. Reviews, Awards and Festival Coverage, Trailers, and miscellany from an industry outsider. Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Director: David Robert Mitchell. The opening shot of David Robert Mitchell's It Follows. Are more tense than some horror movies are in their entire duration. And there's still 98 minutes left. And a step forward. In a sense, you've seen It Follows. Has raised the bar for the genre yet again. Whatever the malevolent force in It Follows. Is, it's not an idea that instant...

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Without a Press Pass: November 2014

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Without a Press Pass. Reviews, Awards and Festival Coverage, Trailers, and miscellany from an industry outsider. Saturday, November 29, 2014. Director(s): Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer. The cruel irony of Still Alice. Has barely had a chance to address the dynamics of the story that could have distinguished the film from similar narratives. The most interesting part of Still Alice. Is a tasteful movie, but that refinement isn't enough to mask the weaknesses of the writing. Avoids falling flat on ...

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Without a Press Pass: July 2014

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Without a Press Pass. Reviews, Awards and Festival Coverage, Trailers, and miscellany from an industry outsider. Sunday, July 27, 2014. Review: "Magic in the Moonlight". At the behest of his old friend Howard (Simon McBurney), however, Stanley decides to take some time off to debunk a new arrival on the psychic scene. Her name is Sophie (Emma Stone), and she's currently in the progress of trying to sneak her way into the vast fortunes of a rich family in the south of France. Where Magic in the Moonlight.

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Without a Press Pass: October 2014

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Without a Press Pass. Reviews, Awards and Festival Coverage, Trailers, and miscellany from an industry outsider. Friday, October 31, 2014. If you're thinking of going on a ski trip with a significant other soon, then perhaps it's best to hold off on seeing Force Majeure. A stylish mystery that was also a the perfect anti-date movie. Though quite different in set up, Force Majeure. Is a great way to end the month; it's the perfect Omega to Gone Girl. May not have Boyhood. S structural conceit or Birdman.

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Without a Press Pass: June 2015

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Without a Press Pass. Reviews, Awards and Festival Coverage, Trailers, and miscellany from an industry outsider. Friday, June 19, 2015. Director(s): Pete Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen. Pixar has a long history of finding unique ways to hit our emotions. This is, after all, the studio that got us to care about plastic toys, fish, and robots. Yet the studio has never confronted the very nature of emotion until now. With Inside Out. As portrayed here, each human mind is dominated by five key players: Joy (A...

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Without a Press Pass: Review: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

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Without a Press Pass. Reviews, Awards and Festival Coverage, Trailers, and miscellany from an industry outsider. Friday, July 31, 2015. Review: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation. It's extremely rare that film franchises get better with age, yet Tom Cruise's 19 year-old Mission: Impossible. Series continues to see significant improvements. Four years after Brad Bird's Ghost Protocol. Despite the presence of a new director and new screenwriters, the latest installment - subtitled Rogue Nation. The IMF has...

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Without a Press Pass: January 2015

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Without a Press Pass. Reviews, Awards and Festival Coverage, Trailers, and miscellany from an industry outsider. Saturday, January 17, 2015. Exceedingly timely but sloppily written, Michael Mann's Blackhat. The film works best when Mann goes into full-on action movie territory. With the sound of guns firing and glass shattering, one is briefly snapped out of the borderline inert character drama. Physique than the script spent developing his character. S plot could have been accomplished with little more ...

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Without a Press Pass: July 2015

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Without a Press Pass. Reviews, Awards and Festival Coverage, Trailers, and miscellany from an industry outsider. Friday, July 31, 2015. Review: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation. It's extremely rare that film franchises get better with age, yet Tom Cruise's 19 year-old Mission: Impossible. Series continues to see significant improvements. Four years after Brad Bird's Ghost Protocol. Despite the presence of a new director and new screenwriters, the latest installment - subtitled Rogue Nation. The IMF has...