Movie News
New Releases: January 4, 2013
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Features
Friday Flashback: THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK
When director Gus Van Sant’s biopic Milk was released, many people noticed that the story hit many of the same points that Rob Epstein’s Oscar-winning documentary The Times Of Harvey Milk. I see it as [click for more]
Movie News
Oscar Nominations Post-Mortem: How Did We Do?
Earlier this week, we here at FilmBuffOnline handicapped the Oscar race as we saw it. As we all know, the nominations have just been released. How did we do? Well, let’s find out. And the [click for more]
Movie News
Oscar Nominations: Who Will Make The Cut?
It’s that time of year again. This Thursday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the nominees for the 81st Annual Academy Awards. Every year there are snubs and surprises, thrills and [click for more]
Film Reviews
Review: MILK
His name was Harvey Milk and he wanted to recruit you. He didn’t want to recruit you in the way that his detractors would want you think. He didn’t care if you were gay like [click for more]
Film Reviews
Review: PARANOID PARK
We originally reviewed Gus Van Sant’s PARANOID PARK last fall when it screened at the New York Film Festival. As the film opens in limited release this weekend, we present our review again. In many [click for more]
Film Reviews
NYFF Review: PARANOID PARK
In many ways, Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park is a continuation of the themes and issues he has previously examined in 2003’s Elephant. Again we have teen characters with divorced or separated parents. Again we [click for more]
Film Reviews
Review: ELEPHANT
In Elephant, director Gus Van Zant takes us through a normal, almost banal day at a suburban Oregon high school whose student body is as varied as any high school in the country. There are [click for more]