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The Future

July and Hamish Linklater (TV’s “The New Adventures of Old Christine”) portray Sophie and Jason, a couple for four years and running. So strong is their cozy, arty union that they’ve decided to adopt a cat. It’s sickly and healing at the animal hospital, however, so they have a month before Paw-Paw is theirs. They […]

Posted inArts & Culture

The Future

July and Hamish Linklater (TV’s “The New Adventures of Old Christine”) portray Sophie and Jason, a couple for four years and running. So strong is their cozy, arty union that they’ve decided to adopt a cat. It’s sickly and healing at the animal hospital, however, so they have a month before Paw-Paw is theirs. They […]

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Rubber

This fiercely original film is as unpredictable as it is dark. Its opening sequence breaks the fourth wall — with a tire iron, of course, likely borrowed from a TruValue managed by David Lynch — as a car pulls up, and out of its trunk emerges Lt. Chad (a fully invested Stephen Spinella, “Milk”), who […]

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El Topo

I say this to note that just because a film is a cult classic doesn’t make it good, and his debut — a “hit” only by midnight-movie standards of the early ’70s when filmgoers had their mind expanded by more than what was happening onscreen — is more weird than wonderful, although visually interesting. From […]

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