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Entries by Dan Persons from 05/2011

Mighty Movie Podcast: Clio Barnard on The Arbor

| Posted 05.02.2011

The Arbor is a stunningly unique look into both the potential and limits of art to redeem a life.

Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Dylan Dog: Dead of Night

| Posted 05.02.2011

Dylan Dog: Dead of Night has stealthily crept onto our mortal plane, sneaking into a handful of theaters for the consumption of a small (very small) audience.

Cinefantastique Spotlight: Thor

| Posted 05.09.2011

Is Thor the film that will bring a Shakespearean gravitas to comic book drama, or is it just table setting for the impending The Avengers movie?

Cinefantastique Spotlight: Priest

| Posted 05.17.2011

The producers of Priest are hoping you're jazzed to see a ravaged world in which the war between humanity and blind, sluglike creatures called vampires has reached a stalemate.

Mighty Movie Podcast: Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel on Louder Than a Bomb

| Posted 05.23.2011

I'm basically down with anything that celebrates language, but Louder Than a Bomb is something special. Here's my interview with directors Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel.

Cinefantastique Spotlight: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

| Posted 05.24.2011

People just love that incorrigible rapscallion Capt. Jack Sparrow and apparently have a bottomless hunger for his adventures in a world where history and magic meld smoothly into one sumptuous, sea-going epic.

The Sublime Syncretism of Kung Fu Panda 2

| Posted 05.26.2011

Kung Fu Panda 2 not only carries forward the first film's inspiration, but plusses it in ways that that stun and delight.

Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Kung Fu Panda 2

| Posted 05.31.2011

Ready for another visit from the most awesome martial arts master ever? Well, ready or not, Po, the legendary Dragon Warrior (and roly-poly panda) is back in this follow-up to the well-received Kung Fu Panda.