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Five Painful Romance Films You Must Watch this February

06 Saturday Feb 2016

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500 days of summer, blue valentine, brokeback mountain, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, february, heath ledger, her, Jake Gyllenhaal, jim carrey, joaquin phoenix, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, kate winslet, Movie review, romance, ryan gosling, valentine, valentine's day, zooey deschanel

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In this month of hopeless romantics, we give you a list of films proving that love isn’t always sweet and happy. There are movies that deviate from the path of cheesy romcoms and they are willing to reveal to you that romance requires pain. So if you are the type of movie buff who veers away from clichés of happy endings, the following movies are right for you.

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Accidental Love: David O. Russell’s mishap

04 Thursday Feb 2016

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Accidental Love, American Hustle, comedy, david o. russell, film review, government, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessica Biel, joy, Movie review, satire, Silver Linings Playbook

By Heinrich Domingo

Above its great director, promising cast, and refreshing cinematography, Accidental Love prides itself of bringing the healthcare advocacy to the fore. It satirizes US congress and its policies. It has clear and definite intention. But, intention alone cannot salvage a screenplay that is too feeble to stand. Intentions cannot transform flat lines into funny ones. Intentions cannot expound on a plot too shallow for cinema. Here is a film with the potential of being among last year’s best but turned out to be the decade’s one of the worst.

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Everest: Reaching the peak of film imagery

27 Sunday Sep 2015

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2015, Baltasar Kormákur, Everest, film review, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, Mount Everest, Movie review, Rob Hall, Scott Fischer

by Heinrich Domingo

Hiking a frozen, high, and oxygen-deprived mountain is as difficult as successfully pulling off a film detailing a simulated expedition to the Everest. The physical conditions of the place may limit the artistic and technical elements of filmmaking. Baltasar Kormákur’s 2015 masterpiece extends the science and art of film creation and sets a new standard on the visual quality of cine.

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