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
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