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Never marry Brad Pitt
As creative luminaries Alfred Hitchcock and Sir Mix-a-Lot have demonstrated, a great end is crucial to quality art. Allied does not have a great...
Too disappointing
As if by deliberate and vaguely sadistic design, Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil leeches the fun clean out of the first Hoodwinked (2005). Six years between films is a long time, and here, when Kirk the Woodsman shows up and someone says something like “Hey! It’s Kirk ...
reel to reel | Week of Dec. 1, 2011
Arthur Christmas Arthur Christmas is not a perfect gift, but it does feature enough holiday cheer and silly fun to make it more entertaining than 10 lords a-leaping. It helps that the film has a warm message about how tradition should never be sacrificed for ...
You can’t take it with you
Jack Tuller is terminal. It’s a brain tumor that’ll do it, one he’s had since the early 1990s. Back then, the doctors gave Jack...
‘Demolition’ takes a sledgehammer to grief
Before you can fix something, you must first take it apart. Before you can be reborn, you must first be destroyed.
That line of thinking...
A holistic struggle
Colorado rancher Kirk Hanna was the ideal cowboy: tall, dark and handsome, complete with a Tom Selleck mustache and a white Stetson hat. But Hanna was much more than your average cowboy. He was a progressive concerned with ecology and conservation, and to practice ...
BIFF 2013: The man behind the Man in Black
In 2005, Jonathan Holiff was living in Los Angeles, working hard at his agency, The Hollywood-Madison Group. He hooked up celebrities with Fortune 500 companies for product endorsements; one of his biggest successes was getting Jessica Simpson together with Chicken ...
Streaming cat blues
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,...
Affleck actually delivers
The robbers work with a confident, brutal and bracing efficiency. And the same could be said of their director...
Only kinda good, fellas
Nothing brings back memories of Sean Penn’s history as a serial domestic abuser like watching him revel in a man being drawn-and-quartered by automobiles. What a weird choice to take a cheesy, scene-chewing, 1940s mob-boss role at this point in his career. Cross-...
An icon under the microscope
There`s a scene in the gripping documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work guaranteed to complicate whatever feelings you have about the movie’s turbulent subject. Rivers, who says in the film that she’d knock out her own teeth if she could get a dentures ...
