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With honesty, conviction, humor and insight, Christian and his cast and crew have created what is easily one of summer 2013's best films. The Independent Critic offers movie reviews, interviews, and festival coverage from award-winning writer and film journalist Richard Propes.
Brothers Charlie (David Rasche), Adrian and Michael (Christine Lahti) try to unlearn everything their psychoanalyst parents have taught them about life, as their family unit teeters on the edge of...
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- Tobias Segal
- Ash Christian
- Comedy, Drama
- All the President's Men (1976) Film. Drama. Wait, you’re telling us Watergate is an actual thing that happened, and in 1974 two reporters really did take down a sitting US president?
- In Cold Blood (1967) Film. Before true crime podcasts and Dateline NBC marathons, there was Truman Capote, whose account of the 1959 massacre of a family in rural Kansas shocked a nation not yet desensitised to random acts of unspeakable violence.
- Hustlers (2019) Film. Drama. A rare depiction of a r ecession that’s neither a teary drama about farmers losing their homes nor a political screed against greedy one-percenters, Hustlers is instead a hyperkinetic story of economic survival, set in a world hit particularly hard by the 2008 financial crisis: New York strip clubs.
- Argo (2012) Film. Drama. It’s one of those stories too far-fetched for even the most inventive screenwriter to make up. At the onset of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, a movie-loving CIA agent hatched a plot to smuggle six diplomats out of the country by pretending to be a Canadian film crew shooting a fake Star Wars-alike sci-fi flick there.
Petunia: Directed by Ash Christian. With Tobias Segal, Thora Birch, Christine Lahti, Brittany Snow. The story of a family whose growth is stunted... a family that learns how to love themselves while loving each other (a little too much).
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Ash Christian
- 2013-06-28
- The Wolf of the Wall Street. In the world of stock brokers, Jordan Belfort is an enigma, heading his multi-million dollar firm Stratton Oakmont by the age of 26.
- Zero Dark Thirty. ‘The story of history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man’ can certainly never be a bed-time read. It is grueling, horrific, strenuous and heroic, proving America’s resilience to take revenge on the one who had destroyed a valuable part of their nation and had given the world a potent threat after the Cold War.
- The King’s Speech. An average viewer would deem this as boring. Indeed the subject isn’t as alluring as our previous nominee. A King of England with a stammering disorder, who eventually overcomes it to give his first war broadcast over the radio doesn’t spark the interest cells in most of us.
- 12 Years A Slave. In 2013, Steve McQueen rolled out a movie on a very sensitive topic that has been touched and rewritten a thousand times. Steve McQueen didn’t dig into to the imagination vault like so many others before him, instead choosing to base his movie on a certain Solomon Northup’s 1853 narrative memoir of the same name.
The drama is quite heavy at times, and always fascinating. It's broken up by some truly funny situations. The acting is good, as you should expect from a film like this. Charlie, the lead, is especially impressive as the meek but affable middle son who actually holds the family together.
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Jun 28, 2013 · Features a top-notch cast, a few beautifully observed moments, and some amusingly bitchy dialogue. But its rambling, episodic structure and gallery of troubled characters will ultimately prove too off-putting to attract theatrical audiences. Read More.
