Train Dreams tells an ambling, pensive and melancholy story through beautifully lived-in performances and stunning natural photography. The movie evokes our sympathy and compassion for everyone left puzzled by life’s inscrutability. Highly Recommended.
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In Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, the myth roars back to life in this mostly successful adaptation. Jacob Elordi’s performance is a standout, while Oscar Isaac is miscast. Filled with beautiful and grotesque imagery, the film struggles for greatness and occasionally reaches it. Recommended.
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Well, let’s put it bluntly: think a combination of Crawl and plenty of Jaws and Sharknado touches to make the latest Netflix feature, Thrash. The only difference is that you’re most likely to forget the Netflix motion picture the quickest once you move on to the next thing. This writer admits that being eclectic is […]
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Roofman is a heartfelt movie that entertains the old fashioned way, with interesting characters and winning performances. Channing Tatum and Kristen Dunst are engaging in the leading roles, and Tatum’s performance represents a career best. It’s movie magic rendered at human scale. Recommended.
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One of Kaurismaki’s funniest and most fascinating deviations in his oeuvre, this East Goes West road movie sutures music, cross-cultural misunderstanding, and deadpan humour into a pseudo-documentary, crowned by arguably the best hairstyle ever committed to celluloid.
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A better Netflix thriller than you may realize. I’m not surprised that the generic shark thriller “Thrash” would make it to Number 1 most streaming movie chart on Netflix a few weeks ago. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the new Charlize Theron vehicle “Apex” would reach the top, but unlike “Thrash,” this one is […]
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Michael is a lively, if incredibly constricted look at Michael Jackson’s life. It offers a swiss-cheese rendering of his personal life in between electric reenactments of him recording and performing. Thankfully, the latter makes up for the former, and the movie is entertaining in a “hall of fame highlight reel” way. Mildly recommended.
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Father Mother Sister Brother belongs to a sizeable subsection of Jim Jarmusch’s oeuvre: works that exist somewhere between feature-length films and compilations of short films. It consists of three roughly forty-minute vignettes, each of which traces the late stage in a family dynamic where there’s not much more to say, or that can be said. […]
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Bob: “I need the rendezvous point, you understand what I’m saying? I need it.”Comrade Josh: “I understand, and the question is “What time is it?”
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Project Hail Mary has defied my expectations more than any other blockbuster released in the last year. Based on the novel by Andy Weir, who also brought us The Martian, it revolves around school teacher and biologist Ryland Grace, played by Ryan Gosling who wakes up abord a space vessel suffering from amnesia. The first […]
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In adapting Wuthering Heights, Emerald Fennell has been faced with a bit of a conundrum. On the other hand this is clearly a novel that is enormously significant to her, both personally and artistically. On the other hand, it’s a novel that challenges her taste for extremity and transgression, since it’s already one of the […]
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A pop star and one of her support team have an interpersonal conflict. So for the longest time Anne Hathaway was associated blockbusters in Hollywood, she’s done some indie work with films like Collosal but by and large she was in the big films. This seems to be an attempt to pivot towards art house. […]
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From stylized dresses to clingy egos, The Devil Wears Prada 2 pours like an expensive bottle of champagne full of delights.
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The story of pop superstar Michael Jackson — from his extraordinary early days in the Jackson 5 to the visionary artist whose creative ambition fuels a relentless pursuit to become the biggest entertainer in the world.
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“Funny how secrets travel…” The title page on a draft of the Lost Highway screenplay reads: “A 21st Century Horror Noir. A Graphic Investigation Into Parallel Identity Crises. A World Where Time Is Dangerously Out Of Control. A Terrifying Ride Down The Lost Highway.” When I saw Lost Highway for the first time in my […]
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A story told backwards in three distinct acts as we begin with the end of the world and find our way through the life of one man that can perhaps explain how it is we got here… (Really telling on myself as a Stephen King fan with my year-end Top Ten List, but I must […]
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Directed by: Jay Roach Written by: Tony McNamara Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman, Andy Samberg, Allison Janney, Sunita Mani Rating: [4/5] Of the many tenets of marriage, sacrifice and selflessness comes as part of the arrangement. Instead of focusing on what works best for one individual, it widens to include another person and major decisions must meet the […]
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“Silencio.” Los Angeles, Hollywood California, the City of Angels, whatever you want to call it is an interesting place. The great filmmaker David Lynch (RIP) had this to say about Hollywood: “I love Hollywood. I love the dream of it.” He also said that: “When you’re there in LA, on some nights… you can feel […]
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This is not the film that future me will select to wait out the winter. Against the Ice is a cold, bitter, faithless test of patience and fortitude – and that’s just for the characters. Watching it is something like passing a shivering chihuahua on a bitterly frosty day and wondering if the little guy […]
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