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Streaming cat blues

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The bad news: the novel coronavirus has disrupted life as we know it, and will for the next couple months. But, you’ve gone to the store,...

A thriller for grandma

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The Tourist is a facsimile of a masquerade of a gloss on Charade, and on all the lesser cinematic charades that followed in the wake of director Stanley Donen’s 1963 picture. While it’s fairly easy to take in its retro way — it certainly takes it easy on the audience...

Send in the clowns

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Another summer is upon us, and that means it’s time for another season of silent film at Chautauqua. For those unfamiliar with the silent...

Pick a side

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The year is 1918, and Red troops are rounding up the White guards. War is on, and the insurgents are to be executed. But...

A portrait of change, a portrait of love

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Richard and Mildred Loving just wanted to be together. They loved each other and wanted to raise a family and in 1958, the two...

Swing and a miss

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Dame Helen Mirren as a toughtalking Nevada brothel madam? We like to think our finest screen performers can play anyone. Mirren, whose career has encompassed the full spectrum of human behavior, from queens to gangster’s molls, is fully capable of tackling a ...

‘The Departed’ beer dinner

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The timing couldn’t be better. The Alamo Drafthouse’s series, Hot Takes & Remakes, is a bizarre and beautiful collection of 30ish movies — some revered, some...

Reel to reel | Week of October 10, 2013

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Blue Jasmine After everything in her life falls to pieces, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger’s modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again. Rated PG. At Boedecker, Esquire, Colony Square. Captain ...

‘Hangover’ hangover

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For some movies, seeming funny is enough. The Hangover Part II only has to show up to succeed. At once pushy and lazy, the sequel follows the 2009 smash, which has become the most lucrative R-rated comedy in history. Isn’t that depressing? I find that depressing...

Brace for Thorgasm

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Whether or not we’ve reached the zenith of comic book movies, we have officially achieved “peak Goldblum.” Dressed as the coolest dad at the...

Reel to reel | Week of September 26, 2013

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Special Event: Relief Benefit...

Reel to reel | Week of December 20, 2012

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