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Doctor Sleep Review: Worth Staying Up For

Jason Gorber — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:00:29 +0000

Consider me shocked. As much as I enjoyed director Mike Flanagan’s Oculus, the idea of messing with Stanley Kubrick’s vision by making a sequel to The Shining is a tough prescription for Doctor Sleep to fill. Most of you already know that Stephen King didn’t care for what Kubrick did to The Shining. His 2013...

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Motherless Brooklyn Review: One Gumshoe Short of a Pair

Deirdre Crimmins — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:00:06 +0000

Film noir can be a tough sell in modern cinema. Motherless Brooklyn seems intent on displaying all the reasons why it doesn’t work, but that doesn’t mean it’s a total waste of 144 minutes. When a film in 2019 not only has a voiceover, but that voiceover uses the word “gumshoe” without irony, you know...

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DTLA Film Festival Journal: Josie & Jack

Deirdre Crimmins — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:00:31 +0000

Sibling relationships are complicated. Josie & Jack shows an unusually stressed pair of siblings, and how they cope with the tension between life inside and outside that relationship. Based on the Kelly Braffet novel of the same name and directed by actress Sarah Lancaster, the film focuses on a brother and sister. Josie and Jack...

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Unboxed: The Wizard of Oz on Home Video Through the Years

David Krauss — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:00:00 +0000

This week marks another home video milestone for The Wizard of Oz. As the iconic 1939 musical fantasy celebrates its 80th anniversary, Warner Home Video honors the occasion with a 4k Ultra HD release. Over the years, director Victor Fleming’s adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s children’s classic has been at the forefront of any new...

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Terminator: Dark Fate Review – The Future Is Still Not Set

Jason Gorber — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:00:53 +0000

Is there a franchise where the notion sequels is more baked-in than The Terminator? We should have known that the famous line “I’ll be back” was more than a just a quip, but a mantra promising decades of reboots and rethinks. With Terminator: Dark Fate, we finally have another chapter worthy of the first two...

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TIFF Journal: Bad Education (2019)

Jason Gorber — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:00:36 +0000

Director Cory Finley takes the good will from his 2017 debut Thoroughbreds and ups the ante even further. Bad Education is a bleak, comical, and surprisingly effective film about a high school finance scandal. Writer/co-producer Mike Makowsky’s screenplay is remarkable both for its deft construction and for how close the writer is to the events...

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Weekend Roundtable: Best Movie Endings

Josh Zyber — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 17:00:36 +0000

It may be true that all good things must eventually come to an end, but unfortunately not all good movies end well. Some do, however! Brace yourself for some spoilers, because we’re about to give away some of our favorite movie endings. Deirdre Crimmins Not just my favorite ending to a film, but also my...

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TIFF Journal: Marriage Story

Jason Gorber — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 14:00:19 +0000

In 1979, Robert Benton directed Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep in a film about the disintegration of a marriage and the ramifications it had on their young kid. Kramer vs. Kramer was groundbreaking stuff, became an enormous financial success, and took home Oscars for Best Picture, Direction, Actor, Supporting Actress, and Screenplay. If Netflix has...

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TIFF Journal: Knives Out

Jason Gorber — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:00:21 +0000

The most obnoxious thing I can say about Rian Johnson’s Knives Out is that I prefer its mix of genre tropes and social commentary to Jordan Peele’s Get Out. Frankly, the mix of Clue with an acerbic and biting look at race, class, and privilege in America is more entertaining to me than taking The...

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TIFF Journal: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Jason Gorber — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:00:16 +0000

Fred Rogers is an extraordinary subject for a movie, as proven by Morgan Neville’s phenomenal 2018 documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?. Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood takes a different tack, placing Rogers almost at the sidelines of his own story. Generations of children grew up to the sights of a lanky...

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TIFF Journal (Belated): Uncut Gems

Jason Gorber — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:00:19 +0000

If the only thing that Uncut Gems contributed to cinematic history was a blisteringly excellent scene during a Passover seder, then, in the parlance of “Dayenu” that’s sung during the meal by Jews around the world, “It would have sufficed”. Yet the Safdie brothers’ most recent film is an ode to obsession and anxiety that...

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Weekend Roundtable: Best Movie Villains

Josh Zyber — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 17:00:47 +0000

Everybody wants to be a hero, but villains have so much more fun. As Maleficent slinks back into theaters this weekend, let’s look back at some of our other favorite icons of evil from the movies. Deirdre Crimmins My favorite villains are those who are justified in their actions. They may be jerks or have...

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