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A list of must visit film blogs/sites for every cineaste A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature In this post I will be talking about 10 amazing film blogs/sites that I feel every cinephile should include in his/her reading list. Each one of them is replete...

By Victoria Alexander, Film Critic Las Vegas Informer WHIPLASH offers Simmons a truly grand opportunity to be the vilest character of the year. When we first see buff Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), New York City’s Shaffer Conservatory of Music’s feared...

Whiplash opens with a chance meeting in a practice room. In minutes, we learn all we really need to know about our players – or, rather, our combatants. On one side, Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller), a promising jazz drummer who can barely communicate beyond...

Sony Pictures Classic Whiplash, in a nutshell. Whiplash is the story of one single-minded drummer’s quest to please his scary jazz dad. It’s so tempting to interpret it as being about more than that. To find in it allusions to, say, the male power...

by Jeff Klayman Saturday might have been the longest day of the year, but having just endured Clint Eastwood’s strange, way over-long film version of  Jersey Boys, I feel the summer solstice has met its match..  The film is engaging at best but ultimately...