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20 Years Later: Speed (1994)

Bill Clark — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 18:54:19 +0000

20 Years Ago Speed was one of my very first “pure” action films. I was thirteen when it came out and was coming up on the age where my parents were warming up to the idea of me seeing R-rated films. I didn’t see it theatrically, but I nearly wore the… Continue reading

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Gravity (2013)

Bill Clark — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:39:53 +0000

Gravity is unlike anything you’ve ever seen, and in today’s Hollywood that really resonates. Most movies I have seen before, and most movies you have seen before. There’s no doubt that variations of the film’s bare-bones story have been done before, but writer/director Alfonso Cuaron, in his first directorial effort… Continue reading

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Premonition (2007)

Bill Clark — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:00:18 +0000

Just when it looked like Sandra Bullock was getting her stuff together in films like Infamous and Crash she comes down with a bad case of Ashley Judd-itis (AJI, for the uninitiated) and retreats to the formulaic, gimmicky fare that put her on the map in the first place. Her… Continue reading

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Crash (2004)

Bill Clark — Wed, 04 May 2005 04:00:32 +0000

The “real world” is a term that I believe to be overused. I heard it all through college. “When you get out into the real world, things won’t be so easy,” my parents and other family friends would say. They would be right, but we were all referring to the… Continue reading

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