Author: Amanda Chen

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Cannes 2013: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

SceneCreek was back in the hustle and bustle of another intense Cannes Film Festival. Opening with The Great Gatsby, we were once again disappointed with an awkward A-list comedy show on the red carpet. And the Carey Mulligan obsession was way OTT. I must say, her kiss with Leonardo DeCaprio didn’t make my Top 10 Best Kisses. It wouldn’t even make my Top 50.

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Cannes 2013 Review: Only God Forgives

A family of drug-smugglers get into some dirty business when one brother messes with the wrong people. The lasting brother, Julian, is forced to set things right by his no-nonsense mother.

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Cannes 2013 Review: Nebraska

In essence you’re watch a tired old man try to find some substance in his quickly waning life on a heart-breaking trip to Nebraska. But it’s all the things that slowly reveal itself that really draw you toward this stubborn, alcoholic old fool.

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Cannes 2013 Review: Blood Ties

Following an organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s that brings together two brothers, a cop named Frank and his ex-convict brother Chris.

LFF 2012 Review: Great Expectations

LFF 2012 Review: Great Expectations

This year, the 56th annual London Film Festival concluded another fantastic week of brilliant movies with the newest adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel, Great Expectations, directed by Mike Newell. Packed with some hefty Harry Potter …

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Movie Review: Taken 2

In 2008, Liam Neeson played an ex-CIA agent named Bryan Mills who went absolutely ape-s&%t on a gang of Albanian sex traders to save his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) who naively got herself abducted in …

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Cannes Film Festival Survival Guide

If you’re going to visit a foreign country during an International film festival, I guess Cannes would be at the top of the list. I mean, who isn’t in Cannes during those two weeks in …

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Cannes 2012 Review: Thérèse Desqueyroux

There’s no better way to end another Cannes Film Festival than with a classic adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner François Mauriac. Paying tribute to the late Claude Miller’s last film, Thérèse Desqueyroux plays with the idea …

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Cannes 2012 Review: On The Road

Are you going some place or just going? I want an escape. I want to just get away and be anywhere but here. But more importantly, I want to belong somewhere. With so much accessibility …

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