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Big Screen Peter: Skyfall

James Bond is back once more in theaters. Like the two previous films starring Daniel Craig as Bond, the feel is a melding of grit and gloss: it attempts to…

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Big Screen Peter: Seven Psychopaths

Seven Psychopaths starts with promise, a kinetic pitter-patter conversation that instantly engages. This veers back-and-forth as the scene grows to a symphonic crescendo. The orchestrated buildup is breathtakingly energetic. And…

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Big Screen Peter: Looper

Looper is a futuristic Massacre of the Innocents. Unlike the passages found in the Gospel of Matthew, however, it is a cloaked search in reverse: a great attempt to quash…

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Big Screen Peter: Savages

Oliver Stone has a lot to say. From Platoon and Salvador to JFK and Wall Street, Stone has lain society bare with his cinematic diatribes. In Savages, however, a movie…

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Big Screen Peter: Prometheus

The hype couldn't have been bigger for Prometheus. With carefully crafted trailers and unique virals, the movie seemed to destined to become a new cultural touchstone, both building on the…

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Big Screen Peter: Bernie

Bernie is a dark-comedy par excellence. It's quirky humor with a razor sharp edge that rips the cover off of east Texas, somehow existing both as a searing riposte to…

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Big Screen Peter: Mirror Mirror

This past Sunday was April Fools' Day. And the list of corporate and political pranks perpetrated by various entities this year is lengthy. If your first instinct each morning is…

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Big Screen Peter: The Hunger Games

Jennifer Lawrence came to prominence as 17-year-old Ree Dolly, the primary caregiver for her mentally ill mother and two younger siblings in Winter's Bone. The rustic poverty and unforgiving landscape…

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Big Screen Peter: 21 Jump Street

21 Jump Street stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as two ne'er-do-well cops sent undercover to infiltrate an adolescent drug ring. There is plenty of ancillary action in 21 Jump…

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Big Screen Peter: Gosford Park

With the societal fever pitch surrounding Downton Abbey reaching a buzzing drone of late, I thought it apt to take a new look at one of Julian Fellowes earlier works,…

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Big Screen Peter: Project X

Project X is raunchy. It's misogynistic, it's bawdy, and all sorts of wrong. But it's also hilarious. The wrong is refreshing. It, like the recent Chronicle, is another in a…