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Phil Brown
Phil Brown is a Toronto-based film critic and entertainment journalist who contributes ramblings about film, comedy, and other pop culture obsessions to websites and publications like Dork Shelf, The Toronto Star, NOW Magazine, The Globe And Mail, C&G Magazine, Fangoria, Rue Morgue, High Def Digest, and others. He’s also appeared on CTV and made a variety of podcast and radio appearances to help delay his inevitable typing-related carpal tunnel syndrome.
Articles by Phil Brown:
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September 9, 2016
TIFF 2016: Snowden ReviewSnowden TIFF 2016 Review.
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September 9, 2016
TIFF 2016: Free Fire ReviewFree Fire TIFF 2016 Review.
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September 7, 2016
TIFF 2016: The Girl With All The Gifts ReviewThe Girl With All The Gifts TIFF 2016 Review.
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September 7, 2016
TIFF 2016: The Handmaiden ReviewThe Handmaiden TIFF 2016 Review.
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August 30, 2016
The Immortal Story Criterion Blu-ray ReviewThe Criterion Collection rescues this Orson Welles curiosity from obscurity with their release of The Immortal Story, a film made late in the career of the auteur for French television.
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August 30, 2016
The Jungle Book Blu-ray ReviewDoes Jon Favreau’s work on Disney’s live action Jungle Book make for a Dork Shelf-worthy Blu-ray?
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August 23, 2016
Midnight Run Blu-ray ReviewShout Factory releases the under-appreciated 1988 comedy gem Midnight Run on Blu-ray today. Read our review to find out which actor gave the best interview for this special edition, and who might have phoned it in.
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August 16, 2016
The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension Blu-ray ReviewShout Factory releases the first in their new ‘Select’ series today with the much anticipated The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension Collectors Edition Blu-ray. Was it worth the wait?
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July 19, 2016
Green Room Blu-ray ReviewJeremy Saulnier’s scrappy follow up to Blue Ruin, Green Room is an excellent genre flick, but there’s not much to boast about on the new Blu-ray disc save for one redeeming feature.
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July 19, 2016
Return of the Living Dead Blu-ray ReviewShout! Factory gives Return of the Living Dead the VIZ (Very Important Zombie) movie treatment with a fully loaded collectors edition.
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July 12, 2016
Everybody Wants Some!! Blu-ray ReviewEven with some fun deleted scenes and featurettes on the new Everybody Wants Some!! blu-ray, there’s still room for Criterion to come along and make a companion disc to Linklater’s Dazed and Confused.
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June 29, 2016
Swiss Army Man ReviewSwiss Army Man proves that a fart joke can be melancholic, magical, inspiring, adventurous, and moving, and that’s not even the movie’s finest achievement.
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June 17, 2016
Jake Paltrow on Immortalizing Brian De Palma’s Best Dinner AnecdotesWe spoke with De Palma co-director Jake Paltrow about taking the legendary auteur’s dinner anecdotes and making a feature documentary from them.
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