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Week in Film: ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ and more
Posted on April 30, 2014 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Yes, yes, I know – spidermanspidermanspidermanspiderman. I’ll get to it. But my favorite movies of the week, as usual, are the small ones. Let’s start with Amma Asante’s “Belle,” […] -
‘Aftermath,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on October 28, 2013 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com You could think of “Aftermath” as a Polish version of “12 Years a Slave”: a film that exhumes a shameful chapter in its nation’s history which some people would […] -
’12 Years a Slave,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on October 16, 2013 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave” is the year’s most powerful film, an arthouse masterpiece which demands to be seen – and which will punch mainstream audiences in the […] -
‘Django Unchained,’ ‘ZD30’: What exactly are we arguing about?
Posted on February 1, 2013 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com When I was in college, I once interviewed the late Rupert Crosse, an African-American actor who got an Oscar nomination for a 1969 film called “The Reivers,” whose star […] -
‘Django Unchained,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on December 24, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com At this point in his career, is there anything Quentin Tarantino can do to surprise us? Absolutely. I was floored by 2009’s “Inglourious Basterds” – not by the violence […] -
‘Lincoln,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on November 7, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Don’t know much about history – but you don’t have to in order to be captivated by Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln.” Instead of making a conventional biopic, Spielberg and writer […]