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For Cinema Buffs, 2020 Definitely Ended on an Underwhelming Note
Rhys Ifans as Dylan Thomas in “Last Call,” one of the few standouts in a dismal year for movies. Image from official trailer By Megan Bianco Usually during the first week of the year, I like to...
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‘Riding the Rails’ Documentary Reminds Us of the Bittersweet Nature of Hard...
In times like the past ten months, it’s easy to feel like things are worse than ever before. But once in a while, we get reminders of moments in history that were just as bad or even harder. Michael...
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Review: John Lee Hancock’s ‘The Little Things’ Is a Neo-Noir California Thriller
Official trailer for the The Little Things. John Lee Hancock’s The Little Things wants and tries to be something along the lines of Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs (1991) or the first season...
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Rosamund Pike Returns to Screen in the Enjoyable Dark Satire ‘I Care a Lot’
I remember film fans’ worries when English actress Rosamund Pike broke through globally with David Fincher’s Gone Girl (2014). They were concerned that the impressive, memorable performance would...
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Thanks to Being Released in a Pandemic, ‘Nomadland’ Has a Real Chance of...
In many ways the pandemic was the best thing that could have happened to Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland. In any other fall movie awards season, it most likely would have been ignored beyond the few critics...
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Review: Leave it to Godzilla and Kong to Welcome Fans Back to Movie Theaters
Who would have guessed that the film to welcome back the traditional movie theater experience as the pandemic waned was not Christopher Nolan’s Tenet (2020) or Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 1984 (2020),...
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‘Space Jam’ Sequel Tests Movie Audiences’ Appetite for Nostalgic Pop Culture...
Nostalgia and outdated pop culture are a heck of a combination, and usually one that doesn’t end too well. Warner Bros’ reboot of Joe Pytka’s cult comedy Space Jam (1996) looks to be testing this...
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Review: ‘Dream Horse’ Is Feel-Good Movie Fun for Equine Lovers
Instant déjà vu might have hit you over seeing the ads and promos for Euros Lyn’s Dream Horse out in May. That’s because the first trailer for this British biopic dropped a year and a half ago. And...
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‘Zola’ Shows How to Make a ‘Based-on-a-True-Story’ Movie That Is Uniquely Good
Biopics made about historical icons and pop culture celebrities make sense as these people usually have very interesting lives, and are perfect for melodrama even if it’s usually partially...
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Review: The Versatile Nicholas Cage in The Weird and Intriguing ‘Pig’
Not since Keanu Reeves went on a rampage when his dog was killed in Chad Stahelski’s John Wick (2014), or Tom Hanks had an existential crisis over a volleyball in Robert Zemeckis’ Cast Away (2000),...
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