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From Silents to the Seventies: The Prize
The Prize didn’t win any prizes from the Academy, but this slick mix of suspense, glamor, wit, and intrigue just might be more entertaining than this weekend’s Oscar telecast. Who knew winning a Nobel Prize could be so dangerous?
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From Silents to the Seventies: The Prize
The Prize didn’t win any prizes from the Academy, but this slick mix of suspense, glamor, wit, and intrigue just might be more entertaining than this weekend’s Oscar telecast. Who knew winning a Nobel Prize could be so dangerous?...
Poll: What Will Win the 2019 Best Picture Oscar?
With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences seemingly in disarray, an awards show scheduled for this weekend with no host, and a weird selection of nominees, this may be the toughest Oscar season to predict in ages. Nonet...
Now Streaming: The Umbrella Academy Season 1
Its contract with Marvel may be ending, but Netflix isn’t out of the comic book superhero business by any stretch. The Umbrella Academy is the streaming provider’s new attempt to fill the void left by its departing Marvel shows. T...
Now Streaming: That Guy Dick Miller
There are only so many movie stars to go around, yet someone has to play the snarky next door neighbor or Police Officer #2. Dick Miller may not have become a household name from those sorts of roles, but chances are that whenever...
From Silents to the Seventies: Female on the Beach
A middle-aged, sex-starved Joan Crawford falls for hunky, often shirtless Jeff Chandler, but there’s a good chance he’s really a killer who preys on rich, lonely older women in Female on the Beach. (How’s that for a title!) For th...
The Walking Dead 9.10 Recap: “Some People Aren’t Mean
The Walking Dead spends most of its hour this week introducing us to the new Big Bad villain for the rest of the season. I’m really left questioning whether she ultimately seems as fearsome as intended, or if the show has already ...
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of February 17th, 2019 – Star Powe
Tell me somethin’, girl. Are you happy in this modern world? Or do you need more? Is there a Blu-ray you’re searchin’ for?
Weekend Roundtable: Best Cinematography
The Oscar committee has decided that the Best Cinematography category is no longer worthy of being televised. Let’s use this week’s Roundtable to remind them how important photography is to the art of motion picture storytelling, ...
Sundance Journal: The Sunlit Night
The Sunlit Night is the latest of a bunch of indie drama/comedies starring Jenny Slate in the last few years. They usually follow a similar formula – a fish out of water situation, someone dealing with a life-changing event like d...
Sundance Journal: The Souvenir
It’s relatively rare to have such austere, auteur-ish films as The Souvenir play at Sundance. Park City is normally the home of brash, sometimes clumsy indie fare, not the rarefied (some may chide as arrogant) Euro-style films tha...
Fighting with My Family Review: Mama Said Knock You Out
Amercian sports movies traditionally fall into two categories. They’re either about plucky athletes who try their darndest, come close to success but fail (e.g. the first Rocky) or those who overcome said odds and have a triumphan...
Isn’t It Romantic Review: It Actually Kinda Is, in Fact, Ro
Parody is reserved for only the most dearly celebrated cultural touchstones. No rom-com cliché is left un-mocked in the peculiarly charming Isn’t It Romantic.