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The Goldfinch Review: Clipped Wings

Jason Gorber — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:00:47 +0000

Director John Crowley’s last film was the highly-praised Brooklyn. His follow-up, The Goldfinch, is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2014 novel by Donna Tartt. It’s an ambitious, sprawling story about a famous Dutch painting, a young survivor of a terrorist bombing, and his struggles following the incident as he grows to adulthood. British playwright Peter...

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‘Westworld’ 2.10 Recap: “That Which Is Real Is Irreplaceable”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:00:16 +0000

I often feel that ‘Westworld’ is too clever for its own good. That’s never been truer than in the Season 2 finale, which exerts so much effort trying to stay three steps ahead of the audience that I’m not sure it even makes any sense at all. The show does so much time-jumping that, frankly,...

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‘Westworld’ 2.01 Recap: “Have You Ever Questioned the Nature of Your Reality?”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 12:00:15 +0000

HBO’s ambitious sci-fi Western ‘Westworld’ returns for a second season to both dazzle and confound viewers. Now that we know some of the show’s secrets from last year, will the story be easier to follow this time? I doubt anyone will be shocked if I say that the answer is “yes and no.” First off,...

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‘Westworld’ 1.02 Recap: “Figuring Out How It Works Is Half the Fun”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 19:00:44 +0000

The second episode of ‘Westworld’ clarifies a couple of things I found confusing in the premiere. At least, it seems to. With a show like this, it’s far too early to know what to trust just yet. Some readers chastised me last week for writing that the Man in Black (Ed Harris) was a robot,...

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‘Westworld’ Pilot Recap: “We’re Miles Beyond a Glitch Here”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:00:55 +0000

Adapted from the 1973 sci-fi thriller written and directed by the late Michael Crichton, ‘Westworld’ is the biggest and most ambitious high-concept event series HBO has launched since ‘Game of Thrones’. The pilot episode leaves me with a lot of questions, not all of which I’m certain the series will be able to answer satisfactorily....

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‘The Good Dinosaur’ Review: The Average Pixar

Philip Brown — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 20:00:56 +0000

Over the years, Pixar has become victims of its own success. The studio has produced so many truly astounding works of animation that, when it releases a movie that’s merely good, it can’t help but feel like a mild disappointment. This summer, Pixar released its finest effort in years with the beautiful ‘Inside Out’. Now,...

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Why Hasn’t There Been an MLK Bio-Pic?

Josh Zyber — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:00:19 +0000

As we spend this holiday Monday honoring the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it occurs to me that there hasn’t yet been a big Hollywood bio-pic about the man. Why is that? And, if one were produced, who should star? According to this Entertainment Weekly article from 2009, Steven Spielberg last acquired the...

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