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PRESENCE To Open Sitges 2025; Alexandre Aja’s NEVER LET GO To Close
by admin|6 days ago|Screen Anarchy
This was one of the hardest festival news articles I've had to write. Why? Because I can't attend Sitges this year, and their line-up, always great, is even more stellar than usual. Each paragraph brough tears to my eyes, thinking...
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SPEAK NO EVIL Review: The Importance of Being Impolite, Part 2
by admin|6 days ago|Screen Anarchy
James Watkins directs the remake, starring James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, and Scoot McNairy. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Venice Review: Kevin Costner Is Going Strong With Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2
by admin|6 days ago|The Film Stage
How blessed are we to have a whole six hours of Kevin Costner’s mythopoetic Horizon already make their way to (some) audiences, especially when this project has been on his wish list since 1988? I often try to demystify festival...
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TIFF Review: Joseph Kahn’s Ick is a Riotous, Satirical Take on the Creature Feature
by admin|6 days ago|The Film Stage
The world is ending and nobody cares in Ick, Joseph Kahn’s latest genre offering after 2017’s Bodied and 2011’s Detention. Despite only making four features in 20 years, Kahn is ubiquitous in pop culture from his background in directing music...
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TIFF Review: David Gordon Green’s Nutcrackers is a Frustratingly Contrived Affair
by admin|6 days ago|The Film Stage
David Gordon Green’s career is one of the most unpredictable in Hollywood. Since his masterful and celebrated debut George Washington, he’s not been shy about planting a flag in a wide variety of films––dramedies, gritty thrillers, franchise horror reboots, political...
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Venice 2024 Review: QUEER Hypersexualizes William S. Burroughs’ Semiautobiography
by admin|6 days ago|Screen Anarchy
For his eagerness, Daniel Craig gets a pass taking on another gay role. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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‘My Old Ass’ Review: A Heartwarming Coming-of-Age Story with a High-Concept Twist
by admin|6 days ago|Slant Magazine
Megan Park’s film achieves poignancy without stumbling into gooey sentimentality. The post ‘My Old Ass’ Review: A Heartwarming Coming-of-Age Story with a High-Concept Twist appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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FX’s “The Old Man” Starts to Lose Its Step in Season Two
by admin|7 days ago|Roger Ebert
Season two of The Old Man is a more compelling character drama than anything else it's trying to be.
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A 9/11 Memory: A Historic Day, and Just Another One
by admin|1 week ago|Roger Ebert
Whenever this day arrives, I think of how popular culture usually depicts momentous days in history as ones where ordinary life stands still, and the way it really is: the momentous thing happens, but there are also all of these...
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TIFF Review: Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night Has One Yearning for Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60
by admin|1 week ago|The Film Stage
“Can satire save the Republic?”— May 2017 cover story of The Atlantic featuring Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump “Mad TV would have done a Barron Trump School Shooter skit the week after Columbine. Donald would show up in a diaper...
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