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SIFF: Tyrannosaur

Friday, May 27th, 2011

by Ryan Macdonald After a two day “break” to work my “regular job”, I slept in and lazily made my way to The Neptune Theater for an afternoon showing of Paddy Considine’s directorial debut, Tyrannosaur, starring Peter Mullen, Olivia Colman, and Eddie Marsan. You could say this film is about a lot of things. It’s […]

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SIFF: Outrage

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

by Ryan Macdonald To close out my triple-double-feature, I sluggishly meandered down side streets, bypassing the Mercer exit construction and winding up at The Neptune Theater for my final film of the weekend, Autoreiji (Outrage). NOTE: Just in case everyone didn’t know, the Neptune is being converted into a music venue. There’s not a lot […]

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SIFF: Hooked

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

by Ryan Macdonald Being a die hard cinephile and a committed employee is sometimes a hard thing to reconcile, especially if you don’t have a job in the film industry. So looking back, it doesn’t really surprise me that Sunday was not, as the rhyme scheme would indicate, “funday”. I overbooked myself a little, working […]

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SIFF: The Future

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

by Ryan Macdonald Hoping to keep the laughs rolling Saturday, I headed back to Pacific Place Cinema to catch Miranda July’s latest, The Future. Even though I loved July’s first film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, I never thought many people had seen it, or knew who she was. So when I got […]

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SIFF: The Trip

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

by Ryan Macdonald After a slow Saturday at work, I hauled ass to the Harvard Exit for an afternoon showing of Michael Winterbottom’s new film, The Trip. When I saw the enormous line outside, I said a silent “thank you” to the traffic gods that they hadn’t opened the doors yet. Turns out that was […]

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SIFF: How to Die in Oregon

Saturday, May 21st, 2011

by Ryan Macdonald Following my emotionally deflating matinee, I headed over to a quieter part of town for a showing of How to Die in Oregon at the Harvard Exit. What can I say, I’m a masochist sometimes. WARNING SPOILERS! I know, I know. a spoiler warning for a film called How to Die in […]

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