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Jay Antani

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Biography:

Well, I like long walks and poetry and watching sunsets. No, seriously, I do like those things on occasion, but, generally, I like movies, discovering cool new stuff to read and music to listen to, hanging out with fun, stimulating, intelligent, open-minded humans (and cats). Philosophically, I like to think of myself as a work-in-progress. But I'm gettin' there.

Location:

Los Angeles

Official Website:

http://www.laalternativepress.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Nebraska (2013) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “Payne's most accomplished and emotionally affecting movie since his masterwork, About Schmidt (2002)” – Cinema Writer Feb 27, 2014 Full Review The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 79% 3.5/4 EDIT “Absorbing performances, stylistic wit, a lacerating and subversive sense of humor: The Wolf of Wall Street delivers all of these in spades” – Cinema Writer Jan 18, 2014 Full Review Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) 92% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film has a frustrating, neither-here-nor-there quality.” – Cinema Writer Jan 17, 2014 Full Review The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) 74% 3/4 EDIT “It's natural to be repelled by Jackson's commercial- and franchise-minded motives ... but, ultimately, he delivers escapist entertainment that functions as the cinematic equivalent of comfort food.” – Cinema Writer Jan 13, 2014 Full Review American Hustle (2013) 92% 2/4 EDIT “more successful than any of the cons on-screen is the con Hustle plays on its audience,” – Cinema Writer Jan 2, 2014 Full Review Her (2013) 95% 3/4 EDIT “Her does American cinema proud” – Cinema Writer Dec 20, 2013 Full Review All Is Lost (2013) 95% 2/4 EDIT “the Cliffs Notes version of the deeper, more profound character study that never transpires on-screen” – Cinema Writer Dec 17, 2013 Full Review Dallas Buyers Club (2013) 92% 2/4 EDIT “It is everything cheap, shallow and pandering about American independent cinema.” – Cinema Writer Dec 13, 2013 Full Review 12 Years a Slave (2013) 95% 4/4 EDIT “The film of the decade.” – Cinema Writer Nov 15, 2013 Full Review Gravity (2013) 96% 3/4 EDIT “a cinematic spectacle without equal” – Cinema Writer Oct 3, 2013 Full Review Before Midnight (2013) 98% 2.5/4 EDIT “Before Midnight is no romance. It's a horror movie.” – Cinema Writer Jul 5, 2013 Full Review World War Z (2013) 67% 3/4 EDIT “Pitt's soulful performance lends World War Z real heart and strength.” – Cinema Writer Jun 30, 2013 Full Review White House Down (2013) 52% 2/4 EDIT “Had director Emmerich allowed the chain reaction of comic chemistry sparked by these leads to carry the film, there's no telling how good White House Down could've been.” – Cinema Writer Jun 30, 2013 Full Review The Way Back (2010) 73% 3.5/4 EDIT “a solid, resonant meditation on survival, on hope, on the value of life in the face of implacable hostility, portrayed memorably by an excellent cast and [Director] Weir's vast, brutal, awe-inspiring landscapes” – Cinema Writer Feb 16, 2013 Full Review Zero Dark Thirty (2012) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Purely as cinematic exercise, Zero Dark Thirty is an exhilarating piece of work. But, beyond its for-the-times subject matter, the work does not linger whatsoever.” – Cinema Writer Feb 13, 2013 Full Review The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) 64% 2.5/4 EDIT “a drag-down, mildly diverting entertainment” – Cinema Writer Jan 10, 2013 Full Review Silver Linings Playbook (2012) 92% 3/4 EDIT “delivers the kind of sharply timed laughs that Sturges and Wilder would've appreciated” – Cinema Writer Dec 6, 2012 Full Review Chasing Ice (2012) 96% 7.5/10 EDIT “Perhaps most eloquent of all -- the most frightening and heartbreaking proof that something is wrong -- lies in the documentary's incredible imagery.” – Paste Magazine Nov 29, 2012 Full Review Lincoln (2012) 89% 3.5/4 EDIT “There is directorial mastery here, and, even for those like me for whom the power of Lincoln is a percolating realization, one thing is certain: The performance by Daniel Day-Lewis is astonishing.” – Cinema Writer Nov 24, 2012 Full Review Flight (2012) 77% 3/4 EDIT “As A-list substance-abuse melodramas go, this one lands safely enough.” – Cinema Writer Nov 14, 2012 Full Review Skyfall (2012) 92% 2/4 EDIT “Who pays the price for Skyfall? Bond fans do, of course. But so does Daniel Craig. He's not going to be around forever - not in this shape, anyway.” – Cinema Writer Nov 10, 2012 Full Review Moon (2009) 90% 3/4 EDIT “Intriguing, imaginative, and thematically ambitious, Moon gives ample proof that Jones is a serious talent, pushing his concepts into intellectually and spiritually challenging territory.” – Cinema Writer Nov 8, 2012 Full Review Looper (2012) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “Looper is among the cleverest, most skillfully crafted and entertaining sci-fi thrillers of the past 20 years.” – Cinema Writer Nov 2, 2012 Full Review Argo (2012) 96% 3.5/4 EDIT “Argo is among the worthiest spy thrillers to come out of Hollywood in years, and it puts to rest (at least for this reviewer) any doubts over Affleck's chops as a smart, shrewd director of consistently topnotch fare.” – Cinema Writer Oct 29, 2012 Full Review Pusher (2012) 46% 2.5/4 EDIT “a perfectly serviceable race-against-the-clock thriller thanks to a powerful lead performance from Richard Coyle.” – Paste Magazine Oct 26, 2012 Full Review
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