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Industry News by LAFR StaffNov 10, 20146:24 pmDecember 14, 2014

Black Magic Drops Fusion 7 For FREE

Blackmagic Design Revolutionizes the Visual Effects Industry with Fusion 7. Fremont, CA – November 10, 2014 – Blackmagic Design today announced that Fusion 7, the world’s most advanced visual effects and motion graphics software, is […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsNov 10, 20142:02 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – interstellar

In a movie filled with A-list talent, the biggest name here is one whose face is never on screen. This is a “Christopher Nolan movie” and once again, he and his brother Jonathan have written […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsNov 10, 201412:04 pmDecember 10, 2014
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review – the theory of everything

What an amazing performance. This is not so much a movie as it is a magic show in which Eddie Redmayne completely vanishes – slowly — and Stephen Hawking appears in his place and Eddie […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsNov 8, 20142:04 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – big hero 6

Disney owns both Pixar and Marvel and so it may have only been a matter of time before Walt Disney Studios made a single movie combining the sensibility of the first with the action orientation […]

Industry News by LAFR StaffOct 28, 20146:03 pmDecember 14, 2014

Arri on “John Wick”

ALEXA XT on JOHN WICK Keanu Reeves plays the title character in JOHN WICK, portraying a former hit-man who is drawn back to his past life after being violently attacked in his own home. Directed […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsOct 25, 20141:58 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – john wick

This is one hyper-violent movie. It’s also fragmented and choppy with unexplained and unrealistic sequences that go nowhere. Most images are so dark they’re difficult to see; many are so bloody they’re difficult to watch. […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsOct 15, 20141:59 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – gone girl

I loved the book and the movie follows it closely — but this movie version is way, way too long. The story twists and turns, but throughout, nearly every scene could be trimmed – and […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsOct 11, 20142:01 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – the judge

This movie is not nearly as good as it deserves to be. With A-list talent both on screen and behind the scenes, this should crackle with humor and human drama. Instead, the story wanders, the […]

Industry News by LAFR StaffSep 30, 20146:06 pmDecember 14, 2014

‘Guardians of the Galaxy” on Alexa XT

  GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY One of the most critically and commercially successful films of 2014, Marvel Studios’ GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY relays the adventures of a disparate group of intergalactic misfits, on the run […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsSep 22, 20141:51 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – a walk among the tombstones

Liam Neeson is a kind of likeable “everyman.” Every year, in recent times, he makes a small, tight action movie in which he rescues himself, his wife, his daughter — or some combination — from […]

In Theaters by Linn GreySep 16, 20149:31 pmNovember 23, 2014
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review – ‘honeymoon’

First time director Leigh Janiak has made herself a tight little indie horror film. Debuting earlier this year at SXSW, ‘Honeymoon’ features Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones) and Harry Treadaway leading a familiar, ‘cabin in […]

Industry News by LAFR StaffSep 16, 20146:10 pmDecember 14, 2014

The Look of “Fargo”

  Inspired by the Coen brothers’ 1996 film of the same name, FARGO is an Emmy® Award-winning U.S. comedy drama series about a hapless insurance salesman in northern Minnesota who gets drawn into a world […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsSep 16, 20141:53 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – the drop

This is the patient person’s crime thriller. It’s slow, deliberate, measured, fragmented in its approach. Characters emerge from the shadows, surrounded by silences. Everything starts in a reflection. The film takes its time to set […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsSep 15, 20141:49 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – the skeleton twins

This is a poignant, often painful story of a brother and a sister whose rapport is real and lovingly abrasive. It’s a movie for everyone who has ever been part of a family. Milo (Bill […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsSep 7, 20141:55 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – the identical

I hate to see this happen: a faith-based organization invests in a movie as a way to produce revenue and/or converts for their cause – and, in this case, most likely does neither. This may […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsAug 30, 20141:39 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – chef

The story here is thin, the comedy is gentle; there are times when you wonder what this movie is really all about, but its heart is always in the right place. If you’re looking for […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsAug 27, 20141:41 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – the november man

What a disjointed disappointing disaster of a movie. The plot is a confusing patchwork of political nonsense. The dialog lapses often into trite clichés. The editing is choppy, the acting is mediocre, the pacing is […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsAug 18, 20141:47 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – the expendables 3

In a Sylvester Stallone movie, you never need to ask: Is the plot plausible? Is the dialog coherent? Are the ideas fresh? The answers: of course not. But if you were to ask: Is this […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsAug 12, 20141:43 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – the hundred foot journey

The trailer will tell you exactly where this movie is going – and it pretty much goes there – but with warmth and humor and lots of special moments along the way. This is a […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsJul 27, 20141:32 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – lucy

This movie is based on an intriguing and fairly well-known premise: humans use only about ten percent of their brains. What would happen if an ordinary person were able to access much more? Well…first a […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsJul 15, 20141:30 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – boyhood

For those old enough to remember the 1960’s this may remind them of a classic Kodak commercial from those days. A father had sent to Kodak pictures he had taken of his young daughter named […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsJul 12, 20141:34 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – dawn of the planet of the apes

When the final credits ended, there were just two of us in the theatre and we ended up leaving together. “So, what did you think of the movie?” he asked me. “It was OK,” I […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsJul 6, 20141:37 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – life itself

This is a difficult movie to watch because it’s more about Roger Ebert, the very sick man, than it’s about Roger Ebert, the very popular movie critic. For continuity, it’s uses lots of sequences from […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsJun 30, 20141:22 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – transformers: age of extinction

As a director, Michael Bay is a madman; he creates movies on speed. They never lack for over-the-top action, but they almost always lack a beating heart. Case in point: this one. It’s about fourteen […]

In Theaters by Bob GibbonsJun 29, 201412:48 pmNovember 15, 2014
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review – begin again

John Carney doesn’t just make movies where music is part of the story. He makes movies where you need to pay as much attention to the lyrics as you do to the dialog because the […]

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