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Now Streaming: Love, Death + Robots

Josh Zyber — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:00:08 +0000

Suffering the most juvenile and sexist aspects of Heavy Metal (the movie and illustrated magazine) and 1990s anime, Netflix’s new animated sci-fi anthology series Love, Death + Robots has a handful of good episodes, including a few real gems, weighed down by a bunch of garbage. I can’t say whether the series is intended to...

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Cannes Journal: ‘Under the Silver Lake’

Jason Gorber — Tue, 29 May 2018 17:00:54 +0000

In 2014, David Robert Mitchell’s slow-build ‘It Follows’ played the Critics’ Week selection at the Cannes Film Festival and took the genre world by storm. There was of course big anticipation for his return to Cannes with ‘Under the Silver Lake’. With a cast that includes stalwart performers like Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough and Topher...

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Cannes Journal: ‘BlacKkKlansman’

Jason Gorber — Tue, 22 May 2018 19:00:25 +0000

Spike Lee has made a career demonstrating a fearlessness in talking truth to power. While his recent narrative films have been a mixed bag (while simultaneously his non-fiction work has been deeply underappreciated), this latest punch in the gut, ‘BlacKkKlansman’, is a welcome return to form for the Brooklyn native. Based on the true story...

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‘Truth’ Review: Not Better Than Fiction

Philip Brown — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 19:00:00 +0000

As the laughably unsubtle title suggests, ‘Truth’ is a movie that strives to be something big and important about big and important subjects that we should all gaze upon in jaw-gaping awe. Indeed, the subject matter is rather important and based on a (wait for it) true story, but it’s presented in such a nauseatingly...

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‘American Ultra’ Review: The Stoner Supremacy

Philip Brown — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:00:07 +0000

The challenge in creating a cross-genre mashup is delivering a movie that manages to satisfy while going out of its way not to fall back on certain genre expectations. ‘American Ultra’ teeters on that very thin line throughout and comes out the other side reasonably unscathed. You can’t say the movie is perfect, but nor...

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‘Playing It Cool’ Review: Rom-Com Plays Too Safe

Philip Brown — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 18:00:12 +0000

The romantic comedy is a fickle beast for any filmmaker to master. The genre has a structure that must be maintained, and even though there are theoretically two ways for these worn-out stories to end, one will always win out: Happily Ever After. Even more of a p-in-the-a is the guy-centered rom-com. You know the...

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Weekend Movies: Hey! Good Movies! I Remember Those!

Drew Taylor — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:00:21 +0000

After weeks and weeks of soul-deadening drudgery, we finally have a weekend with a few movies that are actually entertaining. (Movies that are even being ushered into the multiplexes, no less.) We should probably savor this weekend, since it’s certainly the exception for what’s coming up, not the rule. I saw ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ a...

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Hollywood Rolls Out the Big Guns During Super Bowl

Josh Zyber — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:00:35 +0000

As I understand it, there was some sort of significant sporting event on television over the weekend. I believe it was called the Super Dish, or Wonder Plate, or something like that. Because it tends to do pretty well in the ratings, advertisers like to use this as an opportunity to debut lots of flashy...

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