Mr. Turner★★★★ 1/2 Now playing Sunlight is arguably the unmitigated superstar of director Mike Leigh’s new film, Mr. Turner, a biopic of 19th-century British landscape painter J.M.W. Turner. Renowned character actor Timothy Spall gives a stunning performance as the bullish, avuncular painter who never abandons his working-class roots, even as he ascends to the heights […]
Laura Jaramillo
Bio: Durham's Laura Jaramillo is a poet and film scholar pursuing her doctoral studies at Duke University.Twitter: http://twitter.com/@mtrlgrrrl
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Movie review: Light bondage aside, Fifty Shades of Grey’s real lust is for corporate power
Fifty Shades of Grey ★ Now playingFifty Shades of Grey is a slick commercial for the eponymous Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) and his cult of work. In director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s adaptation of the hit erotica series, work and love are almost indistinguishable. The much-remarked retrograde sexual politics of E.L. James’ franchise is definitely present, but […]
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Match paints a mismatched pair’s opposing points of view in black and white
MATCH Opening Friday Director Stephen Belber’s Match is an uneven but ultimately tender portrait of the kinship that can arise between strangers. It centers on Tobi Powell (Patrick Stewart), a dance teacher living a solitary life in the Inwood section of Manhattan. Tobi’s life is upended when Mike and Lisa Davis show up to interview […]