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Serenity (2019) Review: One Smelly Fish Tale

Deirdre Crimmins — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 20:00:16 +0000

Serenity may be an admirable film on some level, but it’s certainly not a good one. While writer/director Steven Knight (Locke) should be given credit for taking risks and attempting a stylized approach to character and storytelling, we should never lose sight of the fact that he’s made a terrible movie. Serenity is initially set...

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Now Streaming: The Romanoffs Season 1

Josh Zyber — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 13:00:50 +0000

After finishing up one of the most acclaimed TV series of recent years, Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner no doubt had his pick of next project on any number of cable or broadcast networks. Ultimately, Amazon Prime streaming offered him the artistic freedom and resources to play around with the very notion of what a...

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‘Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House’ Review: Accidentally Relevant

Philip Brown — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:00:30 +0000

It’s funny how some movies can suddenly feel more relevant on release than they were in conception. Back when writer/director Peter Landesman was developing his project about the FBI director who went rogue to bring down the Nixon administration, it must have felt like a paranoid history piece. Now, the story of an FBI agent...

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‘Paris Can Wait’ Review: Sincere Indulgence

Philip Brown — Fri, 26 May 2017 15:00:46 +0000

For years, Eleanor Coppola promised to make a movie that wasn’t a documentary about one of her husband Francis’ productions. The whole Coppola clan have talked about it. They said there was a script and it was great. They lied. Sadly, Mama Coppola’s directorial debut ‘Paris Can Wait’ is as empty as it is obviously...

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‘Trumbo’ Review: Entertaining Bio-Swill

Philip Brown — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:00:41 +0000

‘Trumbo’ attempts to dive into the complicated life of an important figure in Hollywood history, while also serving up easy-to-swallow drama for the award-bait crowd and qualifying as a comedy too. That’s quite a bit for a movie that ultimately lands as light entertainment to pull off. Indeed, ‘Trumbo’ frequently sags under the weight of...

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TIFF Journal: ‘Trumbo’

Philip Brown — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 19:00:00 +0000

Hey! Here’s a 2015 bio-pic about Hollywood overcoming adversity, so I guess we’re officially in awards season! Fortunately, this is actually a decent one thanks to a deft sense of humor from all involved. You just have to accept all the melodrama and cheese as inherent traits of the genre. Bryan Cranston stars as Dalton...

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Now Playing: ‘Man’ Up

Bryan Kluger — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:00:53 +0000

Did we need another Superman origin story to grace our theaters just seven years after Bryan Singer’s ‘Superman Returns’? While that particular film wasn’t so much a reboot as a sequel to the older Richard Donner movies, and it was a failure in both characters and story, maybe it was time to forget that ‘Superman...

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