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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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Glass Review: Shattered Hopes

Deirdre Crimmins — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 20:00:35 +0000

M. Night Shyamalan is his own worst enemy. When he creates small films with deeply personal stories, he shines as a director. However, his grand gestures usually fall flat and earn unintended laughs from the audience. Glass is his most ambitious project to date, an attempt to create an original Shyamalan Cinematic Universe, and it’s...

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Now Streaming: Bird Box

Deirdre Crimmins — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:00:06 +0000

Based on the novel by Josh Malerman, Bird Box is the latest addition to both Netflix’s original film lineup and the horror subgenre featuring sensory deprivation. The post-apocalyptic thriller is allegedly the most-watched Netflix film to date, and with good reason too; it’s pretty dang effective. The film starts after the apocalyptic plague has already...

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American Horror Story 8.01 Recap: “The Stew Is Stu!”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 12:00:21 +0000

All the promotion for the eighth season of American Horror Story, dubbed Apocalypse, has promised the show’s most ambitious and craziest storyline yet. Sadly, the only thing notable about the premiere episode is how extraordinarily boring it is. The network ads have also hyped this season as being a big crossover event with the characters...

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‘Ocean’s 8’ Review: Eight Isn’t Enough

Deirdre Crimmins — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 17:00:48 +0000

The latest addition to the ‘Ocean’s’ film franchise shows that adding a massive dose of estrogen to an established formula can ultimately produce a disengaged crime caper. Rather than rebooting with a gender swap a la 2016’s ‘Ghostbusters’, this new spinoff/sequel acknowledges the original films and includes them in its cinematic world. Debbie Ocean (Sandra...

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‘Rebel in the Rye’ Review: Baloney with Cheese

Philip Brown — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:00:18 +0000

Given his life of intense secrecy and his small yet beloved output of work, making a bio-pic about J.D. Salinger was never going to be easy. Oh sure, there are legendary stories about his early life, all of which are dutifully checked off a list here. However, not much is truly known about the man...

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‘American Horror Story’ 7.01 Recap: “Fear Is Currency”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 19:00:44 +0000

Now in its seventh season, FX’s ‘American Horror Story’ has to work pretty hard to find new ways to shock and disturb its audience. This year’s theme, called ‘Cult’, opens with a pretty ballsy and audacious conceit, and then quickly throws it away to recycle stuff we’ve seen before. Basically, Donald Trump (the real Trump,...

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‘American Horror Story’ 6.01 Recap: “I Love the Country Life”

Josh Zyber — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:00:22 +0000

For months, the sixth season of ‘American Horror Story’ was shrouded in secrecy. The FX network did not reveal the season’s theme ahead of time, and even went so far as to run fake and conflicting promos to throw fans off. Now that the premiere episode has finally aired, it seems that the theme is...

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‘The People v. O.J. Simpson’ Pilot Recap: “Money Is the Only Way to Get Justice”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:00:01 +0000

Not to be confused with ABC’s anthology drama series ‘American Crime’, the FX network has its own new anthology drama series called ‘American Crime Story’. The difference between them is that this one focuses on true-crime events rather than completely fictionalized stories. In an audacious move, the first season tackles the so-called Trial of the...

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‘American Horror Story’ 5.12 Recap: “We Started with Such High Hopes”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:00:29 +0000

The ‘Hotel’ season of ‘American Horror Story’ finally closed its doors last week. Like many seasons of the show, this one started out with great promise but petered out over time. Also like many seasons of the show, the finale went off in a weird direction that doesn’t entirely work. Considering that she was the...

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‘American Horror Story’ 5.02 Recap: “What a Glorious Stain”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 17:00:04 +0000

The people making ‘American Horror Story’ this season sure must be confident in it, because this week’s episode (not even the premiere, but the second of the season) ran an extra long hour-and-forty-minutes (including commercials). If it weren’t good, that might be kind of torturous. Amazingly, I think it may actually be the best episode...

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‘American Horror Story’ 5.01 Recap: “I’m Going to Give This Place a Very Bad Review on Yelp”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 12:00:42 +0000

The fifth season of ‘American Horror Story’, subtitled ‘Hotel’, is the show’s first without star Jessica Lange presiding over the bacchanalia of weirdness. In her place steps another diva, the musician and iconoclast Lady Gaga, whose established public image seems a pretty good fit for the material. We already know that she can sing, which...

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