Kingpins

A dark comedy about the unintended consequences of chasing after the next big thing…

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The Best Films of 2020 January 22, 2021

One of my favorite scenes in cinema is a rare moment of levity in Jean-Pierre Melville’s otherwise bleak WWII drama Army of Shadows. Lino Ventura’s character, a prominent member of the underground resistance to the Nazi occupation of France, takes in a screening of Gone With the Wind while on assignment in London. Emerging from […]

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In the Wake – Pieces of a Woman (2020) January 22, 2021

Where do you go from here? So this is about a young couple (Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf). They go through a home birth that ends in tragedy. How do you even begin to cope with a loss like that? Now I knew a limited amount of information on this, just that it was getting a […]

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Sistas Renewed For Season 3 January 22, 2021

BET has ordered a third season of Tyler Perry’s Sistas. The good news arrives midway through the dramedy’s sophomore run, which is scheduled to return with new episodes on January 27. The show has continued to perform well for the network in Season 2. It currently ranks as the top cable series for African Americans […]

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‘Peaky Blinders’ Movie to Set Up New TV Series as Franchise Extends Beyond Final Season January 22, 2021

“Peaky Blinders” fans received unfortunate news this week when creator Steven Knight confirmed the gangster drama’s upcoming sixth season will be its last. Knight had originally planned to take “Peaky Blinders” into a seventh season, but a year’s worth of production on the show was lost because of the pandemic. But not all is lost,… […]

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The Silence (1963) January 22, 2021

I was not prepared for the extent to which Ingmar Bergman’s oeuvre would embrace the uncanny. He may not be a David Lynch, but where Lynch’s nightmares are often emphatically surreal, Bergman’s use of the dreamlike is more subtle, more psychological, and probably more Freudian – though not in the overly literal way that pop-Freudians […]

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