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RIP Michael Gambon

It’s easy to roll one’s eyes at popular culture, especially something as overwhelming as the eight-film Harry Potter series, which parked itself in cinemas worldwide for a full decade back when the millennium still had that new-car smell. Whether a supporter or disparager of the films (truth be told I side with the former, beginning with the Alfonso Cuarón-helmed Prisoner of Azkaban), one has to admit the series introduced a generation of young movie goers to a murderers’ row of British acting legends, many of whom they otherwise probably Continue reading

The Revenant v. Dr. Zhivago: Frozen Mustache-Off!

Watching a hirsute Leonardo DiCaprio (as frontiersman Hugh Glass in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant) defy innumerable odds–including, but not limited to: Indian attack; protracted bear mauling; burial alive; river rapids and waterfall plunge; a sweat-lodge fever; likely food poisoning from raw fish and buffalo liver; a fall from a cliff while galloping on a horse; a night spent inside the aforementioned horse, now gutted; bathing 

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