Film review: SEPTEMBERS OF SHIRAZ, from ‘Built For Speed’

The awkwardly titled Septembers of Shiraz, a cinema adaptation of the successful 2007 Dalia Sofer novel, has been pilloried by critics. Much of the invective is justified although this film isn’t quite the monstrous squawking turkey filmgoers might fear. Septembers of Shiraz places us amid the epochal events of Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. The focus of the

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Film review: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, from Built For Speed

There are a few swinging voters like myself but It seems most people either love or hate Wes Anderson’s supremely quirky picture-postcard fantasies.  His latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is such a fun ride, however, that it may even seduce the detractors. Like the antique dioramas Anderson often displays in his movies, this film reveals its story through several

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