My Take: The Babadook (2014) — by a.wei on

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The eponymous bogeyman of The Babadook is the stuff of childhood nightmares -- a twisted specter, clad in black, ominous and overwhel...

My Take: Gone Girl (2014) — by a.wei on

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Gone Girl , the intoxicating suburban noir about a woman who disappears on her fifth wedding anniversary, opens with a close...

My Take: Dawn of The Planet of the Apes (2014) — by a.wei on

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Dawn opens with an extra close-up of Caesar’s eyes. We pull back to find him leading a party of apes hunting for food. His composure is...

My Take: X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) — by a.wei on

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Bryan Singer’s X-Men opened with a flashback to the Holocaust -- a period of human history in which members of our own species were pers...

My Take: Noah (2014) — by a.wei on

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Aronofsky is a man possesed by obsession. All of the movies in his young but fascinating portfolio deal with the great potentials of ...

My Take: Godzilla (2014) — by a.wei on

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The literary term deus ex machina refers to a sudden and often contrived solution to an unsolvable problem, a convenient silver bul...