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The Hangover, Part III

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Fast & Furious 6

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Happy Birthday: Vadim Grigoriev

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Published on: May 24, 2013

OFCS member Vadim Grigoriev celebrates his birthday today, May 24. Please help us congratulate him and wish him well.

You can visit his website: Kino Blog and Kino Dnevnik.

Reviews: Aurangzeb (2013)

Categories: 2013 Films

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Published on: May 23, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/23] | Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood

Reviews: Becoming Traviata (2013)

Categories: 2013 Films

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Published on: May 23, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/23] | Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
[New - 5/23] | Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee

Reviews: Bidder 70 (2013)

Categories: 2013 Films

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Published on: May 23, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/23] | Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast

Reviews: Byzantium (2013)

Categories: 2013 Films

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Published on: May 23, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/23] | the m0vie blog Darren @ Mooney
- Excerpt: A vampire film with a bit of bite…

Reviews: Fill the Void (2013)

Categories: 2013 Films

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Published on: May 23, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/23] | David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: What brief, insightful instants exist aren’t deep enough to sustain beyond their duration. And what surrounds them is vastly boring.

Reviews: The Girls in the Band (2013)

Categories: 2013 Films

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Published on: May 23, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/23] | Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast

Reviews: The Hangover, Part III (2013)

Categories: 2013 Films

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Published on: May 23, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/23] | Luke Bonanno @ DVDizzy.com
- Excerpt: The Wolfpack is back and this time not just out of financial responsibility and a steadfast reliance on a proven formula, but for a worthwhile story.
[New - 5/23] | Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …while not following the same playbook of the first two, [Part III] is an equally lazy, unfunny slog that fails to even indulge in the raunchy excesses these guys are known for.
[New - 5/23] | the m0vie blog Darren @ Mooney
- Excerpt: Don’t get too hung up on it…
[New - 5/23] | Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: In the end … I felt mostly relief that, for the moment, this series is finished.
[New - 5/23] | Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Excerpt: The Hangover Part III is a better movie than The Hangover Part II only because I find time spent in complete and total indifference preferable to stewing in boiling rage.
[New - 5/23] | Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
[New - 5/23] | Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
[New - 5/23] | Phil Villarreal @ COEDMagazine.com
- Excerpt: It totally feels like a hangover. The exhaustion and aimlessness. The jackhammering that seems to be coming from inside your dulled, weakened brain. The overwhelming urge to crawl somewhere, curl up and cower, shivering until the horror passes. And especially the urge to drink heavily to chase away the pain.

Reviews: Lego Batman: The Movie (2013)

Categories: 2013 Films

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Published on: May 23, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/23] | Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat

Reviews: Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself (2013)

Categories: 2013 Films

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Published on: May 23, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/23] | Chris Barsanti @ PopMatters
- Excerpt: George Plimpton was a blue-blooded aesthete who chronicled his many failures and never cared about being called a dilettante.

The Grab Bag

Nell Minow @ The Movie Mom

Categories: The Grab Bag

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Published on: May 22, 2013

OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.

Interviews

Maiken Baird and Michelle Major of “Venus and Serena”

Excerpt: We were planning on following tennis players playing tennis. We didn’t know what was going to become of the film, what it was going to be. We thought we would be on tennis courts and we found ourselves in medical facilities.

Margaret Talbot on her movie star father

Nell Minow @ The Movie Mom

Excerpt: loved Margaret Talbot’s book about her father, actor Lyle Talbot, The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century. His career spanned the full range of entertainment from the traveling shows of the 1920′s to movies in the golden age of Hollywood co-starring with Bette Davis, Mae West, Carole Lombard, Mary Astor, Ginger Rogers and Shirley Temple. He escorted starlet to glamorous nightclubs and visited William Randolph Hearst’s legendary San Simeon. He helped found the Screen Actor’s Guild, he played Ozzie and Harriet’s neighbor on television, and he appeared in films directed by the notorious Ed Wood.

Pub Culture: Laurie Cansfield on The Vaults and forthcoming doc Proper Pubs

Jennie Kermode @ Eye For Film

Festivals

Varilux French Film Festival (part 1)

Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]

Varilux French Film Festival (part 2)

Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]

Oscar Coverage

Reviews from the Small Screen

James Plath @ Family Home Theater

Categories: Reviews from the Small Screen

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Published on: May 21, 2013

Here’s what we’ve been watching on television.

Dance Academy: Season 1, Vol. 1

Excerpt: It’s pretty wholesome with positive messages, despite the edginess. That’s a tough line to walk, and the reason Dance Academy has such broad appeal.

Doctor Who: “The Crimson Horror”

Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog

Excerpt: After last week’s mostly good, but also horribly dreadful episode, it was nice to see Doctor Who right itself a bit this week, even if that meant offering up a story which, whilst fun, was not terribly memorable.

Doctor Who: “Nightmare in Silver”

Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog

Excerpt: Unfortunately, the episode had to move away from the internal conflict to be about Clara leading the military in their attempts to fend off the encroaching Cybermenace. While it was fun seeing Clara weigh up which of the ridiculous rides might be the best place for defense, and she got to play at being a leader in a way which was interesting and different, that whole half of the episode felt rushed and undercooked.

MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com

Excerpt: I confess to some disappointment from Neil Gaiman…

Fraggle Rock: Meet the Fraggles

Luke Bonanno @ DVDizzy.com

Excerpt: In the canon of Jim Henson productions, “Fraggle Rock” falls in between the all-audiences appeal of the Muppets and the edutainment of “Sesame Street” you wouldn’t feel right watching without a kid in the room. Featuring smart writing and many original songs, it’s a fun series, although your enjoyment hedges largely on your age.

Classics and Other Films on DVD

Categories: Classics and Other Reviews

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Published on: May 20, 2013

Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD from 2011 and earlier.

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver

Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies

Excerpt: Retains some scant measure of Swift’s satiric intent, however distorted.

At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul

Excerpt: The opening impression is of a cross between a Universal horror and a grindhouse roughie; throw in a bit of Anton LaVey posturing, and that’s a fairly accurate description.

Excerpt: DELICIOUS is a cream puff of a musical from the early talkie era whose notable feature is the first film score by George and Ira Gershwin. It is certain to have been an influence on Vicente Minnelli’s AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, particularly the ballet sequence, which here shows Janet Gaynor roaming the streets of New York to the strains of “New York Rhapsody.”

The Dunwich Horror

Andrew Wyatt @ Gateway Cinephile

Excerpt: The Dunwich Horror’s allure is one of outré fifty-cent spectacle, and while that places it light-years away from Lovercraft’s writings, it’s hard to dismiss any work of horror that is so eager and offbeat in its approach to genre conventions.

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

Excerpt: [The finest] of these formula-driven alien invasion movies… and not only because its flying saucers are pretty much the best ever.

The False Magistrate

Excerpt: Isn’t up to the same level of mad, proto-surrealist invention. [of] anything else in the Fantômas series.

Fantômas – In the Shadow of the Guillotine

Excerpt: The film is chiefly best at creating a bizarre, off-kilter mood.

Fantômas vs. Fantômas

Excerpt: A lot better than most franchises this silly can claim to be by their fourth entry.

This Week at the Movies, Part 2 (May 17-19, 2013)

Categories: This Week at the Movies

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Published on: May 18, 2013

Because of embargoes (those happy little restrictions on when critics can post reviews, good or bad), a lot of our critics aren’t able to share links with you until release day. Here are some last-minute reviews for this weekend’s upcoming films. We’ve kept in all the reviews posted yesterday as well so you can have more help in deciding what to see (if you haven’t already).

Opening: May 17, 2013

Wide (United States)

Star Trek: Into Darkness

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Wide (United Kingdom)

Fast & Furious 6

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The Great Gatsby

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Limited (United States)

Happy Birthday: Kent Turner

Categories: Birthdays

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Published on: May 18, 2013

OFCS member Kent Turner celebrates his birthday today, May 18. Please help us congratulate him and wish him well.

You can visit his website: Film Forward and School Library Journal.

Happy Birthday: Marcio Sallem

Categories: Birthdays

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Published on: May 18, 2013

OFCS member Márcio Sallem celebrates his birthday today, May 18. Please help us congratulate him and wish him well.

You can visit his website: Cinema Com Critica and Em Cartaz.

Reviews: Augustine (2013)

Categories: 2013 Films

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Published on: May 17, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/17] | Scott Nye @ Battleship Pretension

Reviews: State 194 (2013)

Categories: 2013 Films

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Published on: May 17, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/17] | Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews

This Week at the Movies, Part 1 (May 17-19, 2013)

Categories: This Week at the Movies

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Published on: May 17, 2013

Opening: May 17, 2013

Wide (United States)

Star Trek: Into Darkness

Wide (United Kingdom)

Fast & Furious 6

The Great Gatsby

Limited (United States)

Happy Birthday: Andrew Schenker

Categories: Birthdays

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Published on: May 17, 2013

OFCS member Andrew Schenker celebrates his birthday today, May 17. Please help us congratulate him and wish him well.

You can visit his website: Slant Magazine.

Happy Birthday: Matt Looker

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Published on: May 17, 2013

OFCS member Matt Looker celebrates his birthday today, May 17. Please help us congratulate him and wish him well.

You can visit his website: The Shiznit, Virgin Media and Little Big Picture.

Happy Birthday: Mark Leeper

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Published on: May 17, 2013

OFCS member Mark Leeper celebrates his birthday today, May 17. Please help us congratulate him and wish him well.

You can visit his website: Mark Leeper’s Film Reviews.

Reviews: 100 Bloody Acres (2013)

Categories: 2013 Films

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Published on: May 16, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/16] | Don Lewis @ Film Threat

Reviews: Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner (2013)