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August 2016

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‘If I didn’t love him, who would?’ Star Stephen Lang on the Method, and Madness, of ‘Don’t Breathe’ Character

by Lee Shoquist
August 26, 2016

As a disabled, Detroit Army vet beset upon by a trio of young burglars in Don’t Breathe, star Stephen Lang gives a maniacal performance, deftly balancing the physical with the cerebral. In the visceral thriller directed by Fede Alvarez (The Evil Dead), a reclusive…

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Seriously, Funny: Simon Helberg on Endearing Lunacy of Breakout Florence Foster Jenkins Performance

by Lee Shoquist
August 12, 2016

The idea of playing Meryl Streep’s right-hand man in any movie must be both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, you get to work with the best; the other, try not to be eclipsed when she gives a performance as wonderful as…

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Logan Lerman and Sarah Gadon Chart Loss of Innocence, American Promise in Powerful Indignation

by Lee Shoquist
August 5, 2016

Young stars Logan Lerman and Sarah Gadon create a palpable, doomed love in James Schamus’ superb screen adaptation of Philip Roth’s 2008 novel Indignation, and when I sat down with them recently in a bustling Chicago restaurant, they pretty much put me into the…

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Lee Shoquist is a film critic and member of the Chicago Film Critics Association and leads over 20 monthly film discussion groups with more than three hundred, multi-generational attendees across the Chicago area and periodically in New York and Los Angeles. Learn more or contact Lee.

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