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The week in film: ‘The Martian,’ ‘The Walk’
Posted on October 1, 2015 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com The New York Film Festival is underway and two of the biggest commercial titles of the fall are in its lineup. (They also happen to be opening this week.) […] -
‘Red Dawn,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on November 26, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com John Milius’ “Red Dawn,” released in 1984, was a simplistic, militaristic rabble-rouser of a film, a Reagan-era Cold War relic that offered lots of rah-rah about how mighty the […] -
Why Hollywood studios fear political content
Posted on July 27, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com A South American director once observed to me that everything was political. He was referring to entertainment in general, more specifically the films that Hollywood chooses to make, even […] -
‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on December 22, 2011 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com I keep want to referring to Stephen Daldry’s film of Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” as, instead, “ ..& Incredibly Cute.” That’s unfair. It’s not even […]