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Review: Margin Call (2011)
Review: Margin Call (2011)

Nuanced financial crisis drama/dark comedy.

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Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAnton Bergstrom2008 financial crisis, business, character drama, complex character, Demi Moore, drama, finance, financial crisis, financial fraud, investment firm, J-C- Chandor, Jeremy Irons, Kevin Spacey, Margin Call, Mary McDonnell, Occupy Wall Street, office comedy, Paul Bettany, Penn Badgley, protest, satire, Simon Baker, social criticism, Stanley Tucci, The Great Recession, Wall Street, Zachary QuintoComment
Review: Fantasia 2000 (1999)
Review: Fantasia 2000 (1999)

Animation for the sake of pure invention.

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Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's ReviewsAren Bergstromanimation, Camille Saint-Saens, classical music, Disney Animation, Dmitri Shostakovich, Don Hahn, Eric Goldberg, Fantasia, Fantasia 2000, Francis Glebas, Gaetan Brizzi, George Gershwin, Hendel Butoy, Igor Stravinsky, James Algar, musical feature, Ottorino Respighi, Paul Brizzi, Pixote Hunt, Rhapsody in Blue, Walt Disney, Walt Disney Animation StudiosComment
James Bond 007: From Russia with Love (1963)
James Bond 007: From Russia with Love (1963)

Sharp and bare, structurally and psychologically.

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Flash Back, Reviews, James Bond 007Anton Bergstromaction, Bernard Lee, character psychology, class tension, Cold War, Daniela Bianchi, dry humour, England, Eunice Gayson, From Russia with Love, Ian Fleming, Istanbul, James Bond, James Bond 007, James Bond 007 Retrospective, Lois Maxwell, Lotte Lenya, Pedro Armendariz, Robert Shaw, Russia, Sean Connery, self-reflexivity, sequel, spy movie, spy thriller, suspense, Terence Young, train sequence, Venice Comments
Review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

More extravagant fun. This is both a bad and a good thing.

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Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAnton Bergstromaction, adaptation, adventure, Aidan Turner, big battle, blockbuster, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, dragon, Evangeline Lilly, fantasy, Hugo Weaving, Ian McKellen, J- R- R- Tolkien, Ken Stott, Lee Pace, male bonding, Martin Freeman, Middle Earth, Orlando Bloom, Peter Jackson, quest, Richard Armitage, The Hobbit, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, video games, visualized space Comments