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Trigger Warning: Jessica Hausner Is Going to Keep Asking Uncomfortable Questions
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At the beginning of “Club Zero,” the disquieting new film from director and co-writer Jessica Hausner, a trigger warning appears on screen: “This film contains scenes of behaviour control and related eating disorders which may be distressing for some viewers.”...
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CASH OUT Trailer: John Travolta And Kristin Davis Star in Indie Crime Thriller
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Remember, back in the day, when one name directors was a thing? Like some kind of cool branding for the late 90s and early 00s? IVES does. Looking to make a statement not only with their debut crime thriller, Cash...
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The Animal Kingdom
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Another day, another traffic jam. A father, François (Romain Duris), chides his son Émile (Paul Kircher) for feeding the family dog potato chips. He tells his son to stay away from them as well since they’re probably not very good...
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Arthur the King
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The word “sport” does not begin to do it justice. Adventure Team Racing is the most extreme, demanding, endurance activity in the world. It makes the Iron Man combination of running, swimming, and biking look like a game of hopscotch. An...
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Club Zero
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Ambiguity and extreme emotional states occur simultaneously in Jessica Hausner's films, where what "is" is not a simple question, and what we should take from all of it is equally obscured. Her characters are in extremis, and their emotional or...
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Remembering Gene Wilder
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Gene Wilder couldn’t have chosen a better stage name. “Gene” is so ordinary, so sane. It promises gentleness: genial, congeniality. But Wilder? That’s the sort of actor who could play Leo Bloom, Willy Wonka, Dr. Frankenstein’s nephew, or The Waco...
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Irish Wish
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Two years ago Lindsay Lohan had her first starring role in almost a decade in the Netflix Holiday film “Falling for Christmas”, which she elevated with her innumerable charms. Re-teaming with director Janeen Damian, Lohan has returned to that same...
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One Life
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You’ve probably seen the viral video. An elderly British man named Nicholas Winton sits in the front row of a television studio watching a silly chat show called, “That’s Life.” The host explains to the viewers that more than 40...
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Knox Goes Away
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In his second directorial effort, the underwhelming “Knox Goes Away,” Michael Keaton portrays a heady hitman diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of dementia. His illness is so grave, when he’s finally diagnosed, he’s told he only has a...
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Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
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“When you record a moment, you’re recording the death of a moment.” Canadian actor Les Carlson, in the role of “Actor” in David Cronenberg’s heartbreaking 2000 short film “Camera,” states that with at least a small amount of rancor. The...
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