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All Is Lost

Sail­ing 1,700 nau­ti­cal miles from Suma­tra Straits in a small yacht by his lone­some is Our Man (played by Robert Red­ford). His open­ing mono­logue is nar­rat­ed and hints at a per­son­al con­flict. Sur­pris­ing­ly, that is one of the rare bits of dia­logue in “All is Lost.” Most­ly word­less, the feel­ing of alone­ness is inescapable. A col­li­sion with a float­ing car­go con­tain­er leaves the yacht in… 

The Wolf of Wall Street

Mar­tin Scors­ese is one of the bravest direc­tors work­ing in Hol­ly­wood today. Some­how, with each film project he under­takes he finds a way to test his abil­i­ties as a film­mak­er by push­ing him­self to new lim­its. As crit­ic Roger Ebert once not­ed, “Scors­ese is nev­er on autopi­lot, nev­er pan­ders, nev­er sells out, always goes for broke; to watch his films is to see a man… 

Don Jon

Jon has an addic­tion. It does­n’t involve alco­hol or drugs but, instead, porn. Just the sound of his com­put­er pow­er­ing up is enough to excite him for he knows very well what’s avail­able at his fin­ger­tips: a vast selec­tion of free porno­graph­ic con­tent on the inter­net. “Noth­ing else does it for me the same way,” explains Jon. The clips he sees on the inter­net seem… 

Machete Kills

Direc­tor Robert Rodriguez does­n’t know how to let go of an idea. He turned his debut fea­ture film “El Mari­achi” into a tril­o­gy. Then, he did the same with “Spy Kids.” Now he’s doing it again with his “Machete” char­ac­ter months before he’s to release a sec­ond “Sin City” film. When you have these many sequels in the works, your time is near­ly up. After…