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Now Streaming: Undone

Josh Zyber — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:00:21 +0000

Star Rosa Salazar is so good in Amazon’s new animated, existential sci-fi mystery series Undone that I almost want to check out that Alita: Battle Angel movie she was in after all… Almost. Let’s not go crazy here. Undone is animated in rotoscope style, wherein live actors are filmed and then stylized animation is drawn...

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Now Streaming: Velvet Buzzsaw

Jason Gorber — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 20:00:51 +0000

My adoration for Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler is immense. The thought him collaborating again with Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo on a new movie that skewers the pretentions of the art world gave me hope that Velvet Buzzsaw would be halfway decent. Instead, we’re treated to a horrid mess of a film. Tonally all over the...

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Blindspotting Review: Don’t Overlook This One

Jason Gorber — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 12:00:19 +0000

Blindspotting is a big, brash, oft-brilliant film by Carlos López Estrada that sets Daveed Diggs up for cinematic superstardom. The film uses the basic elements of hip-hop – rhythm, rhyme, narrative, repetition and sampling from other works – as the foundation for its own unique style and tone. It has the bite of social realism...

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