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TRAP Review: M. Night Shyamalan’s Serial Killer Thriller Gleefully Embraces Genre Absurdities
by admin|2 hours ago|Screen Anarchy
Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan (Knocking at the Cabin, Old, Glass) and narrative logic have rarely been on speaking terms. Shyamalan has been downright antagonistic toward narrative logic. A filmmaker more often concerned with the effects individual scenes and sequences can...
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Posterized August 2024: Trap, Red Island, Alien: Romulus & More
by admin|2 hours ago|The Film Stage
Videogame IP, a remake, and a children’s film: August’s blockbuster titles don’t really need marketing help. So, Borderlands (August 9), The Crow (August 23), and Harold and the Purple Crayon (August 2) go heavy on the Photoshop to slap something...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Eyes Wide Shut on 35mm
by admin|12 hours ago|The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaFidelio, our four-film program with Chapo Trap House’s Movie Mindset, begins this Saturday with Eyes Wide Shut on 35mm, which plays again on Sunday. Museum of the Moving Image70mm...
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Harold and the Purple Crayon
by admin|16 hours ago|Roger Ebert
As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955 hymn to the power of imagination, so highly that whenever a friend or loved one reproduces, part of my gift to the baby is a copy of the...
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Trap
by admin|16 hours ago|Roger Ebert
Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup of M. Night Shyamalan’s near-miss of a thriller “Trap,” a movie that actually feels less like the Night Brand than a lot of his twisty ventures, a sort...
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Trap Review: M. Night Shyamalan’s Best-Engineered Work Since The Village
by admin|16 hours ago|The Film Stage
Likely the burden of precedent never lifts from M. Night Shyamalan, whose name became noun, adjective, and verb more-or-less the moment The Sixth Sense landed with shockwaves a quarter-century ago. As certain narratives about his career (twist endings, Newsweek covers)...
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Fantasia 2024 Review: BRUSH OF THE GOD, A Charming Elegiac Ode To Kaiju Films Of The Past
by admin|17 hours ago|Screen Anarchy
A teenage girl and her geeky friend must use a magic paintbrush to save the world from killer kaiju in eighty-eight-year-old Murase Keizô’s debut feature, Brush of the God. Akari’s (Suzuki Rio) grandfather has just passed away and she doesn’t...
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UCR Creative Juices: Xavier Dolan Moving Out of Retirement with new Horror Genre Film
by admin|18 hours ago|Ioncinema
Someone is emerging from early (filmmaker) retirement, and we might have Cannes topper Thierry Frémaux to thank for it. After a cool volunteer job as the head of the Un Certain Regard jury this summer, Xavier Dolan‘s creative spark was...
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Fantasia 2024 Review: TIMESTALKER, Alice Lowe Chases The Love of Their Lives
by admin|22 hours ago|Screen Anarchy
They say "You'll find love when you stop looking for it." Well, I can tell you from experience that I stopped a long time ago and either I’m not looking very well or it’s complete bullshit.    On the other...
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Dìdi (弟弟) Director Sean Wang on Resisting Nostalgia, Marketing Battles, and Why First-Time Directors Need Patience
by admin|22 hours ago|The Film Stage
It wouldn’t have been Sundance without at least a handful of coming-of-age stories. Sean Wang’s audience award winner Dìdi (弟弟) proves that, with a new perspective, there are still emotions to be mined from a tried-and-true formula. Exploring the everyday life of...
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