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Showing posts with label 2015. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2015. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

With A Little Help from My Friends

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A Man Called Ove (2015, directed by Hannes Holm) is Sweden's submission for this year's Oscars. It's not a perfect film by any...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Baying at the Moon

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Howl (2015, directed by Paul Hyett) is another iteration of the Night of the Living Dead/Rio Bravo siege film, in which a train full of ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Bothered and Bewitched

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The Witch (2015, directed by Robert Eggers) has been the new big thing in the horror genre since it debuted at Sundance last year. Like th...
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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Suburban Ghosts Revisited

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If you ever want an object lesson in the things that make a good movie vs. the things that make a bad movie, you could do worse than make a...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

Blunt Force

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I don't hate the Star Wars prequels. Indeed, there's a lot about them that I like quite a bit. I like the emphasis on politics, gi...
Sunday, December 06, 2015

Spectres and Apparitions

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Daniel Craig's fourth outing as James Bond, Spectre (2015, directed by Sam Mendes), has a valedictory quality to it, as if it intends ...
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Sunday, November 01, 2015

Deeper Red

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The heroine of Crimson Peak (2015), Guillermo Del Toro's return to horror filmmaking, is named "Edith Cushing," a name with ...
Monday, October 12, 2015

Returned to Life

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One of the reasons that film noir has persisted in the cultural massmind is because films noir are so often epistemological. Questions of ...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

A Wolf Cub In the Desert

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Theeb (2014, directed by Naji Abu Nowar) finds its title character, a young Bedouin growing up in 1916, roped into a grand adventure. For ...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

Innocence, Experience, Sex, and Drugs

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In Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015, directed by Marielle Heller), a film set in the sexually liberated, doped up 1970s, the title character ...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Gifted

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The Gift (2015, directed by Joel Edgerton) is one of those psychological thrillers that it's best to approach without any fore-knowled...
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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Trans Women Scorned

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It's been a while since I've been as conflicted about a film as I am about Tangerine (2015, directed by Sean Baker). It's a fi...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

Say, UNCLE

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The Man from UNCLE (2015, directed by Guy Ritchie) finds Hollywood trying to breathe life into another pre-sold "franchise," pre...
Saturday, August 08, 2015

Clobberin Time

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I don't hate Tim Story's Fantastic Four films. Oh, don't get me wrong: they botch a lot of things (most notably Dr. Doom and G...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Hitting the Small Time

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Ant-Man (2015, directed by Peyton Reed) finds the Marvel superhero franchise experimenting with genre. The superhero film is flexible if y...
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Monday, July 27, 2015

Rich and Famous

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I wasn't a fan of Amy Winehouse during her lifetime. Not because I disliked her music--I rarely heard her music in the radio wasteland ...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

A Final Problem

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I'm reading Neil Gaiman's new collection of short stories, Trigger Warnings , right now. One of the stories in that book is a Sherl...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Salting the Soil

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The Salt of the Earth (2014, directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado) is one of those documentaries that confounds expectation...
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Saturday, July 11, 2015

The Future, Postponed

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Terminator: Genisys (2015, directed by Alan Taylor) is not as bad as you may have heard. It's certainly no worse than any given city-de...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Fang and Claw

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My long-suffering partner has much simpler demands of movies than I do. For example: when she sits down to watch a movie about dinosaurs, s...