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‘The Little Hours’ Review: Get Thee to a Nunnery

Philip Brown — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:00:01 +0000

The success of ‘Bridesmaids’ spawned a trend of “gals behaving badly” comedies which have, for the most part, been amusing little larks. ‘The Little Hours’ comes with a hell of a twist. Those gals behaving badly? Well, they’re nuns. Even though the setting is 14th Century Italy, the speech and comedy are contemporary. The whole...

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‘Phantom Boy’ Review: Crime and Punishment and Whimsy

Philip Brown — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 16:00:25 +0000

For those who used to love such things, it’s been sad to watch the art of hand drawn animation die a slow death in the CGI age. Something tactile about process is irreplaceable by a digital sheen, and there’s a magic to the simple wonderment of watching drawings come to life. ‘Phantom Boy’ is the...

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‘Zoolander 2’ Review: Acceptable, If Nothing Special

Philip Brown — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:00:50 +0000

Comedy sequels ain’t easy. Like hearing the same joke twice, it just won’t be quite as funny the second time, no matter how amusing the telling. Only a handful of examples manage to match or top their originals, but those are the exceptions, not the rule. That’s certainly true of ‘Zoolander 2’, a sequel that...

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Blu-ray Highlights for 12/6/11 – My Aching Head

Josh Zyber — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:00:06 +0000

It’s an odd phenomenon, the way that certain movies somehow manage to rake in tremendous amounts of money even though nobody at all seems to like them. One of the year’s worst and most-reviled mega-blockbusters comes to Blu-ray this week, and no doubt will sell a gajillion copies to people who really ought to know...

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