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11:11 – Eleven Reviews by Roger Ebert from 2011 in Remembrance of His Transition 11 Years Ago
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
Roger, thank you for the rich treasure trove of opinions and images you left for us. Thank you for your enormous sympathy about the human condition. Spending time with your reviews makes it feel as if space and time are but...
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A Man Goes to the Movies: An Appreciation of Roger Ebert’s Top 10 Lists
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert's Top 10 lists each year always contained a few surprising picks that said a lot about what he valued in moviegoing and criticism. One of the things I liked most about his writing was that he didn’t seem...
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A Conversation with Iram Parveen Bilal (WAKHRI)
by admin|3 months ago|Hammer to Nail
Writer/director Iram Parveen Bilal follows up her engaging 2020 I’ll Meet You There with Wakhri, which just played SXSW 2024 (where I reviewed it). Inspired by the life of the late Pakistani social-media influencer Qandeel Baloch, this aesthetically assured and...
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Obsess You Like a Ghost: Bertrand Bonello on His Years-Long Path Towards The Beast
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
Every time I’ve seen The Beast there comes some point where I think Bertrand Bonello is the world’s greatest under-60 filmmaker. Not quite a new stance for me (declaring Saint Laurent the best movie of the 2010s was a lonely...
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ABIGAIL: Check Out The Dolby Poster
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to...
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Keeping the Mystery: Alice Rohrwacher on La Chimera, Mythology, and Morality
by admin|3 months ago|The Film Stage
In Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera, the Italian writer-director’s fourth narrative feature film, the past melds with the present. Art is something to be dug up, to be discovered, regardless of its origins. A circus troupe does the digging, led by...
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The First Omen
by admin|3 months ago|Roger Ebert
“The miracle of life can be a messy business,” you hear in “The First Omen,” a stunning prequel to Richard Donner’s timeless horror classic, “The Omen” (1976), about the evildoings of a demonic orphan adopted by a pair of unsuspecting...
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KILL Official Teaser: India’s Bloodiest Action Film is Coming This July
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Follows a passenger on a train to New Delhi. The train soon becomes a combat battleground as a pair of commandos face an army of invading bandits. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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The Old Oak | Review
by admin|3 months ago|Ioncinema
A Tree Grows in England: Loach Loses Steam in Klutzy Refugee Drama There’s no doubt Ken Loach is one of the most prominent social-realist directors of his time, navigating the plight of poverty (most often) amongst Britain’s working class across...
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Panic Fest 2024 Review: JEFFREY’S HELL Is a Brilliantly Self-Reflexive Found Footage Film
by admin|3 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Writer/director Aaron Irons’s debut film Chest marked him as someone to watch. His sophomore effort, Jeffrey’s Hell, confirms that he’s one of the most interesting filmmakers working in the found footage horror genre. Chest follows a documentary crew investigating an...
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