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Cannes Journal: The Dead Don’t Die

Jason Gorber — Thu, 16 May 2019 19:00:27 +0000

Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die has all the parts to make a terrific film – a stellar cast, a smart and resilient indie director, and a cinematically literate tale about the undead that should appease fans of George Romero. Instead, like the corpses that litter the ground, the bits never quite assemble in a...

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TIFF Journal: The Old Man & the Gun

Philip Brown — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 19:00:00 +0000

It’s not often that you walk out of a cops-and-robbers yarn and can’t stop thinking about how sweet it was. David Lowery’s The Old Man & the Gun takes a bizarre true story and turns it into an elegant swan song to the charming screen presence of Robert Redford (this is theoretically his last movie,...

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‘Proud Mary’ Review: Keep on Rollin’, Rollin’ Right Past

Philip Brown — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 20:00:06 +0000

‘Proud Mary’ tries to position itself as an homage to the empowered and insane 1970s Blaxploitation genre, mixed in with some contemporary female-driven actioners like ‘Atomic Blonde’. That’s something I can get behind. Unfortunately, the movie’s just not very good. Admittedly, it starts with a fairly slick sequence of the titular Mary (Taraji P. Henson)...

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‘Monster Trucks’ Review: Straight to the Scrapyard

Philip Brown — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:00:11 +0000

Here’s a huge surprise: a movie about a truck with a monster in it called ‘Monster Trucks’ sucks. I know you’re shocked. I can’t believe it either. Somehow, we’ll get through this together. For a movie destined to be forgotten within 24 hours of its release, ‘Monster Trucks’ sure built up a lot of hype....

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‘Almost Christmas’ Review: Almost Decent

Philip Brown — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:00:18 +0000

These days, Christmas starts in November. Starbucks, Walmart and all your other favorite box stores have already put up the decorations and their employees are already sick of the carols. It only makes sense that this week at the movies we’re reminded that Christmas is almost here, even though it’s still over a month away....

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‘Beyond the Lights’ Review: The Same Old Song Remixed

Philip Brown — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:00:21 +0000

If nothing else, ‘Beyond the Lights’ succeeds in exploring a few important themes regarding how women are misused and abused by the entertainment industry. The movie deserves some attention for addressing these issues within an easy-to-swallow romance. Unfortunately, the romance itself is so dull and predictable that it’s hard to get behind the movie as...

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How to Ruin a Good Thing: ‘Lethal Weapon 3’

Dan Hirshleifer — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:00:25 +0000

Any producer will tell you that it’s hard to catch lightning in a bottle, and even harder still to predict what will make it big or what will flop hard. That’s why you hear stories about Decca rejecting the Beatles, or Sean Connery turning down the role of Gandalf, only to find himself in ‘The...

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Now Playing: ‘LUV’ Is a Battlefield

Bryan Kluger — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:00:32 +0000

‘LUV’ is one of the strangest but most interesting coming-of-age films I’ve seen. Above all else, the movie excels in character development, which is probably why director Sheldon Candis was able to secure an A-List cast. The film is set in Baltimore, and will undoubtedly prompt comparisons to the hit HBO series ‘The Wire’, particularly...

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‘Touch’ Pilot Recap: “We All Have a Destiny”

Josh Zyber — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:00:24 +0000

Amid persistent rumors that a ’24’ movie may be in the works soon, Kiefer Sutherland has already returned to Fox primetime in the new series ‘Touch’, a drama with a sci-fi or possibly supernatural bent. The network ran a preview of the pilot episode last week and will pick up the rest of the show’s...

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Sundance 2012 Preview: U.S. Dramatic Competition

Aaron Peck — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:00:22 +0000

Sundance 2012 is right around the corner. I’ll be attending the festival again in January, along with fellow High-Def Digest writer Luke Hickman. Last week, the festival started announcing the films that will be shown to audiences. Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll highlight some of the titles that have caught my attention. Today,...

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The Netflix Stream: Week of July 24, 2011

Dick Ward — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:00:06 +0000

There’s at least one exciting original series on the way to the Netflix stream, and maybe another. Yet it still feels like we’re losing a lot more than we’re gaining these days. The end of July brings us a few cool movies that were missing on streaming, but we lose a lot of good stuff,...

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