It’s not often that a remake, reimagining, reboot, whatever you want to call it of a popular horror franchise lives up to its hype, but when Jordan Peele announced he was co-writing and co-producing a new version of “Candyman,” there wasn’t much question that this one would. This movie definitely feels like it was crafted […]
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Film Review: Mandibles
From Quentin Dupieux, the man who brought us tales of killer tires and misbehaving police officers, comes his new film, Mandibles. This time Dupieux tackles a tale of two men and their oversized housefly companion, a 74-minute madcap journey that’s equal parts laugh-out-loud funny and headscratchingly surreal. Two pals, Jean-Gab and Manu, come across the […]
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Alien on Stage Dir. Danielle Kummer and Lucy Harvey This oddball documentary captures an amateur British stage production of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi masterpiece “Alien” which makes it from their small community theater to Leicester Square Theatre in London. Yes, you read that correctly. To make things weirder, the director, the writer, the actress playing Ellen […]
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Film Review: Third time’s the charm for this modern take on Thomas Hardy’s classic
Apparently, the late nineteenth century was a realm of indecision.
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American Sniper hits mark, focuses on soldier’s life
New movie honors a hero but misses mark on accomplishments in his name.
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Narratively, the film conveys a back-and-forth between Cheryl’s hike and her past.
Narratively, the film conveys a back-and-forth between Cheryl’s hike and her past.
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Film review: Hercules
Hercules pits Dwayne Johnson with director Brett Ratner, and the finished product is about what you would expect from this not-at-all-unlikely pairing: all brawn, no brains.
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Inni
That’s only partially due to the Icelandic post-rockers’ otherworldly approach to music. Shot during a two-night stand in 2008 at London’s historic Alexandra Palace, French-Canadian director Vincent Morisset transferred digital footage to 16mm film, then again, through prisms and “found objects,” according to the “Inní” website. Combined with the abstract and always beautiful cinematography, the […]
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Page One: Inside the New York Times
Startling admission: As a career-long journalist in one form or another, it is difficult for me to be truly objective about the documentary “Page One: Inside The New York Times.” No such problem exists with the Times’ own Michael Kinsley, who panned it as “a mess,” but don’t listen to him — I’m guessing most […]
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We Are What We Are
Father knows best, but when the patriarch pukes up bile on the sidewalk and dies a most undignified death, that leaves the clan on their own for food. His two sons man a watch stand at an outdoor flea market to support the fam, but one of the young men’s hotheadedness gets them kicked out. […]