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Film Review: Lack of Narrative Focus Handcuffs ‘Answers to Nothing’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on December 2, 2011 - 6:43pm.CHICAGO – Ensemble films, with their multiple stories and characters, can be a challenging delicate balance. Emphasize one story over another and an audience starts to wonder why the neglected subplot is even in the film. “Answers to Nothing” generates this reaction with all their narrative threads, in a movie that lacks any kind of cohesion.
Film Review: Ryan Reynolds Gets Beneath it in Tense Thriller ‘Buried’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 24, 2010 - 6:29am.CHICAGO – In one of the most unusual settings for a film, actor Ryan Reynolds performs as a one-man tour de force as the only on-screen character in the new film “Buried.” Set in a coffin buried beneath the sands of Iraq, Reynolds conveys the panic, hope and inevitable outcome of a man buried alive and fighting for his very existence.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Hurry! First-Come, First-Served Chicago Passes For ‘Buried’ With Ryan Reynolds
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on September 21, 2010 - 6:25pm.CHICAGO – In our latest edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have a first-come, first-served amount of admit-two advance-screening passes up for grabs to the new film “Buried” with Ryan Reynolds!
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