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Streaming Review: Mesrine Part One – Killer Instinct
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By cGt2099
| February 8th, 2013 at 8:07 pm
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Netflix | Instant Watch | YouTube
DVD | Blu-ray
Directed by Jean-François Richet
Starring Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Cécile De France, Gérard Depardieu, Gilles Lellouche, Elena Anaya
Pathé
Originally Released: October 22, 2008
Jacques Mesrine is not a very nice man. He is aggressive, murderous, and determined, which, in turn, makes him one of the most interesting figures in history. One of the most infamous criminals in France, the biopic focusing on his escapades was so epic and badass that they had no choice but split them into two films – kind of like Kill Bill, and just as good (if not better). Gritty, suppurating, and uncompromising, coupled with a phenomenal performance from Vincent Cassel, Killer Instinct is a movie not to be ignored.
I’ve aspired to see these movies for some time now. From what I had previously read, many reviewers seem to make a terrible and erroneous comparison with Scarface. The truth is that Killer Instinct is far more callous and realistic than the Al Pacino snowfest that glorified those boring coke heads. If comparisons be made, the film has more in common with titles like Chopper, The Postcard Bandit, Prison Break, or Goodfellas – with a metric fuck ton of violence alongside the very strong cultural essence of France as well.
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Tags: Amazon, Cécile de France, Gerard Depardieu, Gilles Lellouche, Jacques Mesrine, Jean-François Richet, Jeanne Schneider, Killer Instinct, Mesrine, Mesrine Part One, Mesrine Part One: Killer Instinct, Netflix, Vincent Cassel, YouTube
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Three-D’s Top 30 Films Of 2012
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By Three-D
| January 4th, 2013 at 1:31 pm
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The very best films of 2012 accurately depicted the fragility of mankind and of its spirit. These are not new topics meant to provoke awe. Every year, cinema depicts the most inconceivable of situations and pits characters in them to fend for their lives. In 2012, the best of cinema took an intense foray into pain and suffering but with an unerring intent to discern what it was that permitted or encouraged particular characters to endure certain tragedies.
What was discovered in these elite films was the profoundest reverence for togetherness and dependability. The police, being dragged around the uninhabited fields of Anatolia searching for a dead body, still managed to cooperate with two murderers in Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. If it was not for a fast-thinking scout master who gathered Camp Ivanhoe’s finest boy scouts to search for two young lovers who fled the coop in Moonrise Kingdom, they would forever be stranded on their own magical island (is that really a bad thing?). Instead of two souls aimlessly suffering existence alone in The Master, they endure together and astonishingly discover what each one so desperately needs in the other: a sense of worth. The father and daughter in Beasts of the Southern Wild would not survive the aftermath of the storm if it were not for their true, illustrious relationship. And the octogenarian couple in Amour is the only proof we need to know that it takes two people, solidified in an unbreakable relationship, to stand firm, face life and to stare the inevitable square in the eyes.
The following are my picks for the 30 best films of 2012.
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Tags: Alex Pettyfer, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Bela Tarr, Benh Zeitlin, Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Cécile de France, Channing Tatum, Denis Lavant, Dwight Henry, Ebizo Ichikawa, Egon Di Mateo, Erika Bok, Fabrizio Rongione, Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, Janos Derzsi, Jared Gilman, Jérémie Renier, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Joe Manganiello, Kara Hayward, Koji Yakusho, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes, Luc Dardenne, Matt Bomer, Matthew McConaughey, Mihaly Kormos, Moonrise Kingdom, Muhammet Uzuner, Naoto Takenaka, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Pamela Harper, Quvenzhané Wallis, Risc, Steven Soderbergh, Takashi Miike, Taner Birsel, The Kid with a Bike, The Turin Horse, Thomas Doret, Tilda Swinton, Wes Anderson, Yilmaz Erdogan
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Matt Damon Talks With The Dead In Clint Eastwood’s ‘Hereafter’ Trailer
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The first trailer for director Clint Eastwood‘s new supernatural thriller, Hereafter, has arrived online.
The movie looks like interesting new territory for the 80-year-old machine that is Eastwood, somewhat stepping into other-worldly realms.
It stars Matt Damon as a man who has psychic abilities and is able to communicate with the deceased, which once saw him as an author and celebrity in paranormal communication. But as he tries to leave that life behind him, others who have looked death in the face seek him out as they pursue answers.
Be sure to click on over to the other side now to read a synopsis and check out the first trailer for Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter, or make your way to Apple for all high definition viewing options!
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