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Ioanina Pavel

Ioanina Pavel

I believe in few things - the matchless, healing power of movies is one of them. I could go for days without food, but deprive me of my movies and you snuff out my life. It's a life led inwardly for the most part, and spent pining over the time I sleep away. I'm a self-trained insomniac. Not looking for a cure.

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Features

‘Boyhood’ – Perseverance, Secret of All Triumphs

For all the [insert topical reference] movies out there, there’s one that ends up defining the place in question, and Americana flicks have just…

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Reviews

‘Blind’ – A Slice of Life behind Closed, Yet Wandering Eyes

Shown in Competition at the top film festival in Romania, now underway in Cluj, Oslo, 13, August writer Eskil Vogt’s debut film quickly shot up…

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Reviews

‘Wetlands’ – Smells Like New Wave Spunk

Teen spirit is a whole new beast in the Me Me Me Generation’s interpretation – and it shows, in all its outrageous, trail-blazing glory,…

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Festival Diary: First Taste of TIFF’s Lucky 13 Edition

To be clear, the TIFF I’ll be covering here is the one whose poster child is Dracula, not the Maple Leaf. And if The…

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Day 2 at TIFF – Packed Theaters And Runny Make-Up

The second full day of movies at the Transylvania Film Festival got underway at the crack of… well, noon for me, with a flick…

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Features

‘Enemy’ And The Stilted Rise Of The Doppelganger Craze

How does one pull off a doppelganger movie without tripping over the pitfalls that plague a genre so dependent on acting chops? For every…

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Features

How Scarlett Johansson Put the Moves and the Screws on Hollywood

The third outing for Marvel’s Black Widow came off without a hitch last weekend, which saw Captain America: The Winter Soldier set a new…

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Reviews

‘True Detective’s’ Slow-Burn Storytelling Will Change The Way You Watch Television

Is there a solid enough reason for fans of the first season to hold off on watching the second until its conclusion, and then…

Reviews

Review: ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’

Breaking away from the triteness that has come to define the vampire genre, but not quite far enough away to alienate the tweens who…

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