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P&P Podcast Episode 11: ‘Insurgent’ and ‘Last Man On Earth’

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The Peanuts and Popcorn Podcast features weekly conversations about film, television and sports. Taylor Armosino and Jake Kring-Schreifels begin the episode by reflecting on some movies that Taylor watched over his Spring […]

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Analysis, culture, Drama, entertainment, Film Review, Interview, movies, Podcast, Sports

The Top 10 Movies Of 2014

January 26, 2015by Jake Kring-Schreifels Leave a comment

Not to belabor the point, but there were a lot of movies to see this year. I didn’t come close to seeing them all. I’m not sure who did. I […]

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Analysis, culture, Drama, entertainment, Film Festival, Film Review, Interview, movies, Uncategorized

Actor Profile: Johannes Kuhnke of “Force Majeure”

October 22, 2014by Jake Kring-Schreifels 1 Comment

Swedish actor reflects on playing a different kind of man Force Majeure, the emotionally and visually stunning new Swedish film from director Ruben Ostlund, hinges on a temporarily terrifying moment. […]

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culture, Drama, entertainment, Film Festival, Film Review, Interview, movies, Music

Interview: Director Ira Sachs

August 22, 2014by Jake Kring-Schreifels 2 Comments

On the intimacies of love, families, and New York City In Love is Strange, director Ira Sachs has at once written a love letter to lower Manhattan and also exposed […]

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Fading Gigolo: Selling His Goods in Painterly Brooklyn

April 18, 2014by Jake Kring-Schreifels Leave a comment

John Turturro Explores His Sexuality in his Latest Film If it’s hard to imagine John Turturro playing a male prostitute, it might be incomprehensible, at least unconventional, to picture Woody […]

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Wes Anderson, Contemporary Auteur

March 19, 2014by Jake Kring-Schreifels Leave a comment

An Exploration of Meticulous Authority A few weeks ago I went to an early premiere of Wes Anderson’s eighth feature film The Grand Budapest Hotel at an Academy members screening […]

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Film Review: All Is Lost

November 1, 2013by Jake Kring-Schreifels 1 Comment

Serenity at Sea Above all else, it’s Robert Redford’s hands that director J.C. Chandor chooses to emphasize the most in All Is Lost. Scarred and weathered, they pull his yacht’s […]

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Interview: Zachary Heinzerling

August 14, 2013by Jake Kring-Schreifels 2 Comments

Cutie and the Boxer is Zachary Heinzerling’s marvelous directorial debut and a rare dual portrait of artistic souls, Ushio and Noriko Shinohara. The title refers to Noriko’s illustrated journal of her life with […]

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The Wolverine: An Eastern Perspective, An Intimate Lens

July 24, 2013by Jake Kring-Schreifels Leave a comment

James Mangold and Hugh Jackman discuss influences for new film I got the opportunity to attend The Wolverine press conference in New York City and hear from director James Mangold and […]

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Joshua Oppenheimer and “The Act of Killing”

July 21, 2013by Jake Kring-Schreifels 1 Comment

Re-enacting Indonesian genocide, one scene at a time In an eerie and breathtaking scene from director Joshua Oppenheimer’s profound documentary The Act of Killing, a man tries but is unable to […]

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Career Arc: Sofia Coppola

June 19, 2013by Jake Kring-Schreifels 2 Comments

Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous…and Isolated “I think I’m always drawn to projects that help me understand something about myself.” – Sofia Coppola “Write what you know.” That’s the […]

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Film Review: Stoker

March 15, 2013by Jake Kring-Schreifels Leave a comment

Putting the Dysfunction in Family When you leave the theater after seeing Stoker, Chan-Wook Park’s latest family psychological gothic melodrama, you will be stirred, but for reasons unknown and ungraspable. […]

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Basketball, culture, Drama, entertainment, Film Review, Interview, movies

Interview: Director Ramona S. Diaz

March 7, 2013by Jake Kring-Schreifels Leave a comment

Director discusses new documentary, touring with Journey, and singing into the night… Make your way to any prom night, dinner function, ballpark, or festival, and a song from Journey will […]

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