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Reviews

Review: ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’

Matthew Vaughn has been proving his mettle as a director for over a decade, starting with crime thriller Layer Cake (featuring a pre-Bond Daniel Craig). However, in the years since that film’s release, Vaughn may largely made a name for himself by helming well-received comic book adaptations like Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class. It seems somehow fitting then that his latest comics-based release, Kingsman: The Secret Service, acts as his most quintessential release yet, offering a loving and distinctly quirky take on the early James Bond era spy genre. Continue reading Review: ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ →

Features

Crooked Table’s 10 Favorite Films of 2014

Now that the Academy Awards have come and gone (and we’ve had the chance to catch up with most of this year’s Best Picture nominated films), the time has finally come to unveil the list of our 10 favorite films released in 2014.
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Reviews

Review: 2015 Best Picture Nominees

On Sunday, Birdman may have nabbed the Best Picture Oscar. However, as history has proven, not every winner of the show’s top prize truly proved to be as deserving as its competition. In the aftermath of another Oscar season, we decided to take a look at each of the films nominated for Best Picture.

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