The Grand Budapest Hotel Review: A Five Star Adventure

A VIEW FROM OTHER WINDOWS This isn’t the first time Wes Anderson has taken his audience by the hand and led them through the oversaturated grandeur of luxury accommodation. Starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman, 2007’s Hotel Chevalier –  a 13-minute short written and directed by Anderson – acted as a bittersweet narrative precursor to […]

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Side Effects Review: Pills, Thrills, and Bellyaches

Tentatively billed as the last major motion picture of veteran director Steven Soderbergh, conspiracy thriller Side Effects had an illustrious career’s worth of cinema to live up to in providing the auteur of ensemble with a fitting farewell to the medium he left an unmistakable signature upon. Spanning from deep cult cinema cuts such as […]

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