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Dragon Slayer: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Josef Krebs  |  Mar 20, 2012

Not so much The Da Vinci Code meets Se7en but more The Bourne Identity meets Run Lola Run, director David Fincher's scene-by-scene remake of the original 2009 Swedish adaptation of the first part of novelist Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy is as if the original film had taken steroids. It's tight, tense, stylish, and very involving.

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Review: Two Takes on Tinker Tailor Solider Spy
Josef Krebs  |  Apr 10, 2012

More modest and thoughtful than action-packed, John le Carré’s 1974 spy-novel classic Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a spook story filled with civil servants (not double-0 operatives) in a world where little happens beyond talk, but the stakes riding on those conversations are supremely high.

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, April 10, 2012
Josef Krebs  |  Apr 10, 2012

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, April 24, 2012
Josef Krebs  |  Apr 24, 2012

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, May 15, 2012
Ken Korman  |  May 15, 2012

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Music to your Eyes: Qello
Michael Berk  |  Jun 07, 2012

If you're the sort of person who enjoys watching classic concert films and music documentaries (and let's face it, you're reading Sound+Vision, so I'm pretty sure you are), you probably wouldn't mind having access to a big archive if such things, available from wherever you are on almost any device.

Qello is here to help.

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First Look: Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project
Michael Berk  |  Jun 08, 2012

Last night we dropped by the 7.1-equipped 3D theater in Dolby's midtown offices for a sneak peek at Francois and Pierre Lamoureux's Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project, the forthcoming theatrical 3D film of jazz legened Pat Metheny's latest "solo" outing with his mechanical orchestra.

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, June 26, 2012
Ken Korman  |  Jun 26, 2012

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, July 10, 2012
Ken Korman  |  Jul 10, 2012

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This Week in Blu-rays and Music, July 24, 2012
Ken Korman  |  Jul 24, 2012

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We Bought a Zoo
David Vaughn  |  Aug 20, 2012
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Losing your spouse has to be one of the most heart-wrenching experiences anyone could ever face. Throw in a couple of young kids who must also cope with the loss, and the surviving parent is in store for a very rough ride. When we meet Benjamin Mee, it’s been six months since his wife passed. His two kids, 14-year-old Dylan and 7-year-old Rosie, are trying to adjust but aren’t faring well. The widowed dad is reminded of his wife wherever he goes in town, and Dylan gets expelled from school due to his unique art and a theft problem. It’s definitely time for a change of scenery.
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Poll: Do You Watch Movies or TV On a Phone or Tablet?
SV Staff  |  Aug 20, 2013

The mobile age has created more video viewing options than ever before. Do you watch movies or TV shows on a smartphone or tablet? Take the poll here.

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WALL-E
Chris Chiarella  |  Mar 17, 2023
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Does anyone else miss the glory days of Pixar, when they were cranking out hit after hit, putting story and character above all? This was the era of WALL·E, a film of overwhelming visual and emotional beauty about the last working waste allocation load lifter assigned to Earth cleanup in the distant future. His endearing combination of kindness, a yearning for companionship and an eagerness to find value in all things set the stage for a memorable, nigh-wordless first act wherein he falls for the newly arrived EVE, a very different robot with a very different directive…

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The Velvet Underground
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 24, 2023
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The Velvet Underground is not for everyone—nor were they ever intended to be. The critically regarded avant-garde darlings of Andy Warhol's Factory scene of late-1960s New York, the VU forged a truly groundbreaking style of music that saw the doo-wop/pop songwriting and seedy poetry predisposition of guitarist/vocalist Lou Reed embed with the hypnotic, drone-centric playing style of violist/pianist/composer John Cale.

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Silent Running
Brandon A. DuHamel  |  Mar 31, 2023
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When Douglas Trumbull, the wizard behind the visual effects on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, finally took to the director’s chair, the result was 1972’s Silent Running. The environmentally themed adventure set in the distant future stars Bruce Dern in a gripping early career performance as botanist Freeman Lowell.

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