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P&P Podcast Episode 24: ‘Trainwreck,’ ‘Ant-Man,’ & ‘Ballers’

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The Peanuts and Popcorn Podcast features weekly conversations about film, television and sports. Jake Kring-Schreifels and Taylor Armosino jump right into Amy Schumer’s star vehicle Trainwreck and are not as thrilled with the […]

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Thug’s Life: ‘Chappie’ and ‘Run All Night’

March 18, 2015by Jake Kring-Schreifels Leave a comment

Very early on in Chappie, Sigourney Weaver, playing the head of a private defense company, shoots down funding a robot that can recite poetry and paint pictures. It’s a brutal […]

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Indieocrity: ‘Song One’ And ‘Loitering With Intent’

January 24, 2015by Jake Kring-Schreifels Leave a comment

Song One During her week of promotion for Song One, Anne Hathaway stopped by The Daily Show to chat with Jon Stewart. Quickly they were dying in laughter. She zipped out a condensed version […]

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Film Review: A Most Violent Year

January 6, 2015by Jake Kring-Schreifels 1 Comment

No City For Oil Men A Most Violent Year begins with Marvin Gaye’s “Inner City Blues.” The song, like the film it introduces, is chilling and soulful. Gaye recorded it […]

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Film Review: John Wick

October 24, 2014by Jake Kring-Schreifels Leave a comment

They Snuffed His Pooch, Now It’s Time For Payback John Wick is a preposterous revenge movie, but it revels in its own preposterousness. That makes it difficult to judge this popcorn […]

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Film Review: Gone Girl

October 3, 2014by Jake Kring-Schreifels 3 Comments

 A Wife Missing, A Husband Squirming Near the beginning of Gillian Flynn’s novel “Gone Girl,” a husband wakes up on his fifth wedding anniversary and overhears his wife humming the […]

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Sound Therapy: “God Help the Girl” and “Frank”

September 5, 2014by Jake Kring-Schreifels 1 Comment

In the new film, God Help The Girl, a practitioner at a mental health hospital diagrams what she terms a “Pyramid of Life.” Items like food, water, and sleep, she […]

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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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Film Review: Begin Again

June 29, 2014by Jake Kring-Schreifels Leave a comment

An Unlikely Pair with an Unlikely Sound When Keira Knightley’s character Greta, a tomboy-dressed Brit, performs an original song during an open-mic night, a music producer named Dan (Mark Ruffalo) […]

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Film Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past

May 25, 2014by Jake Kring-Schreifels 1 Comment

Clashing Cultures to Change their Fate In X-Men Days of Future Past, New York City is not blown up or destroyed. Well, that’s not entirely true. For a brief opening […]

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Film Review: The Amazing Spiderman 2

May 8, 2014by Jake Kring-Schreifels 3 Comments

Zapping Webs, Containing Trouble Spiderman 2, the middle adventure in Sam Raimi’s groundbreaking trilogy, begins with Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) racing through jammed Manhattan streets with Pizza strapped to his […]

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Tribeca Film Festival Reviews, Part 1

April 22, 2014by Jake Kring-Schreifels 1 Comment

Love is Strange  In Love is Strange, director Ira Sachs has at once written a love letter to lower Manhattan and also exposed its economically demanding realities. Ben (John Lithgow) […]

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Film Review: Inside Llewyn Davis

December 6, 2013by Jake Kring-Schreifels 2 Comments

Folk Singer Searching For A Platform At certain points in time, from certain perspectives, the world can be a cold, dark place. Leave it to the Coen Brothers to use […]

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Film Review: Oldboy

November 27, 2013by Jake Kring-Schreifels Leave a comment

Twenty Years Trapped, Free to Find the Truth Oldboy is an adaptation directed by Spike Lee. I mention this from the very start because if no ending credits appeared on […]

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Film Review: Paranoia

August 16, 2013by Jake Kring-Schreifels 1 Comment

High-Tech Hunk Caught Between Bitter Rivals Early on through Paranoia, a lifeless, conventional and disappointing movie from Robert Luketic, Gary Oldman says, “Nothing original is left in the world.” His […]

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Film Review: Cutie and the Boxer

August 16, 2013by Jake Kring-Schreifels 2 Comments

A Yin and Yang Fighting and Painting With Love In a certain respect, film is the best medium to really capture artists Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, the weathered, adorable, frustrating, […]

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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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Film Review: The Great Gatsby

May 9, 2013by Jake Kring-Schreifels Leave a comment

Pomp and Circumstance in Long Island F. Scott Fitzgerald walked out of the theater when his timeless piece of American literature was adapted for the first time into a silent […]

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Film Review: Trance

April 7, 2013by Jake Kring-Schreifels 2 Comments

A Painting Is Gone and So Is His Memory  Before the New York City premiere of Trance, director Danny Boyle introduced the film, flanked by stars Rosario Dawson and Vincent […]

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Film Review: Premium Rush

August 25, 2012by Jake Kring-Schreifels Leave a comment

Pedal Pusher Biking up the Wrong Street Crowded streets, tight escapes, and heavy pedal action speedily wedge their way through Premium Rush, an often-unexposed peek at two-wheeled manual transportation. I say […]

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