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Film review: White House Down

July 19, 2013July 18, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

The latest film by blockbuster director Roland Emmerich is not bad at all. In it, the White House is invaded

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Film review: Behind the Candelabra

July 19, 2013July 18, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Was there ever anybody quite as stereotypically gay as Liberace? The man with the tiny poodles, the sometimes purple wig,

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Film review: Before Midnight

July 11, 2013July 11, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Anyone who has seen the story of Jesse and Céline develop over two decades, in 1995’s Before Sunrise and 2004’s

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Film review: Prince Avalanche

July 5, 2013July 5, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Prince Avalanche, which is being screened at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), marks a triumphant return for David

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Film review: World War Z

July 5, 2013July 10, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

The opening credits of World War Z are ominous, to say the least. Actual news footage, in which news presenters

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Film review: Monsters University

June 28, 2013June 27, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Monsters University is having a hard time fitting in. Director Dan Scanlon’s first picture for Pixar Animation Studios simply does

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Film review: The Bling Ring

June 28, 2013June 27, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Three of Sofia Coppola’s five films have been about teenagers. The Virgin Suicides, her début feature, was a poetic period

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Film review: Trance

June 21, 2013June 21, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

One couldn’t imagine a more appropriate title than this one. Danny Boyle, who last directed James Franco in the cinematic

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Film review: Man of Steel

June 21, 2013June 21, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Guns blazing, fireballs glaring, smoke rising, people dying. Such is the first 20 minutes of Man of Steel, the latest

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