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Now Streaming: In the Shadow of the Moon (2019)

Josh Zyber — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:00:50 +0000

For a remake of the acclaimed documentary about NASA’s Apollo space program, Netflix’s In the Shadow of the Moon misses the mark pretty badly. For a TV movie thriller about a time-traveling serial killer… well, it’s pretty middling at that as well. The truly strange thing about recycling this particular title is that the phrase...

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‘Game Night’ Review: A.K.A. David Fincher’s Airplane!

Philip Brown — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 18:00:35 +0000

You know, it really didn’t occur to me until about halfway through ‘Game Night’ that David Fincher’s cinematic style had become iconic and imitated enough that it could be parodied. Yet here we are with a big Hollywood comedy that not only toys with a premise from a Fincher flick, but co-opts his style for...

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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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TIFF Journal: ‘Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House’

Philip Brown — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:00:00 +0000

When the team behind ‘Mark Felt: The Full Title Is Way Too Long’ starting working on this bio-pic, it must have felt like a forgotten political period piece that they weren’t quite sure viewers could relate to. Suddenly, the tale of an FBI lifer going against the White House to protect the nation couldn’t feel...

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‘Christine’ (2016) Movie Review: A Slow Burn to Sadness

Philip Brown — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:00:59 +0000

The name Christine Chubbuck may be known mainly to those with the most morbid of curiosities. Chubbuck was a news reporter for a small Florida TV station in the 1970s who became so fed up with her station’s “If it bleeds, it leads” mandate that she gave her bosses exactly what they wanted in the...

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Now Playing: Hello, ‘Darlings’

Bryan Kluger — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:00:44 +0000

Over the past few years, the Beat Generation that spawned writers and poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac has returned to cinema screens in documentaries (‘William S. Burroughs: A Man Within’), bio-pics (‘Howl’) and adaptations of their work (‘On the Road’). However, none has covered the time period where all of these writers...

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Weekend Movies: The First $100 Million Opening of the Year? Probably.

Luke Hickman — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:00:54 +0000

Well, kids, the next big movie series hoping to fill the franchise void caused by the climactic ending of ‘Harry Potter’ is finally here. According to pre-sales, it looks like the movie will cross over the $100 million mark and possibly even out-do ‘Potter’ box office numbers. The closest theater to my home has sold...

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‘Dexter’ 6.01 Recap: “This Is No Amateur”

Aaron Peck — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:00:46 +0000

Showtime’s most popular series returned this past Sunday. As ‘Dexter’ enters its sixth season, the character finds himself searching for meaning in life, and maybe a belief in God. Meanwhile, we find that serial killer life is still flourishing in the Sunshine State. Seriously, how many serial killers can one small section of a state...

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TIFF Journal: ‘Peep World’ – Great Cast with Little to Do

Josh Zyber — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:00:17 +0000

The Toronto International Film Festival ended on Sunday. By the time you read this, I will have already left the city. I still have several movies to write about, however. So I’ll roll those out over a few extra posts. First, let’s take a peek at ‘Peep World’. Just listen to this cast: Michael C....

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