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Blooming Lotus: Redemption and Spiritual Transformation in Kill Bill
Blooming Lotus: Redemption and Spiritual Transformation in Kill Bill
By Michael K. Crowley [ Editor's Note: The House Next Door is proud to reissue a series of articles developed at 24LiesASecond, a now-defunct platform for provocative criticism with an underdog bite. The essay below was first published on 06/03/2005, under the editorial guidance of James M. ...
Doubt Movie Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Film Doubt
variety.com — A Miramax release of a Scott Rudin production. Produced by Rudin, Mark Roybal. Executive producer, Celia Costas. Directed, written by John Patrick Shanley, based on his play. Sister Aloysius Beauvier - Meryl Streep Father Brendan Flynn - Philip ... (more) Doubt Movie Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Film ...
Oscar Watch: Doubt Reviews
Oscar Watch: Doubt Reviews
weblogs.variety.com — Let the fur fly. In the first review of Doubt, Todd McCarthy is casting seeds of doubt on Meryl Streep's performance. Like Frost/Nixon, this play-to-screen adaptation is a small-scale period two-hander. The movie enjoyably pits Streep as a ... (more) Oscar Watch: Doubt Reviews
Needing to Know
hollywood-elsewhere.com — I got into a disagreement with a fellow columnist after last week's screening of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt. He didn't have a problem with the acting or the writing or the general thrust of it, even, but he felt it... (more) Needing to Know
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The End Of Cinema — ... The House Next Door provides this fascinating reading of the Kill Bill movies as a Zen allegory by Michael K. Crowley. I rewatched the films yesterday, and his theory holds up pretty well, and makes me appreciate Vol. 2 more than I ever have before. I've always defended these films on pure love of cinema grounds, arguing that Tarantino's movies are as pure an expression of cinephilia as anything in film. But it's nice to think that there might be some larger purpose to them as well. ...

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