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Compulsive viewing
Let’s get this out of the way: If you’ve ever been in a car crash, The Road Movie is not for you. Much in...
Hammer time
At this point in the Marvel Comics-derived superhero cycle, audiences can be forgiven for feeling a tad worn out, both for reasons of quality and quantity. My rear end’s thor just thinking about how many more we have coming. Yet sometimes a product exceeds ...
Replicant? No, repli-can!
It is profoundly insightful and upsetting that both Blade Runners explicitly tackle the sins of civilizations built on slavery and sexual subjugation without including...
Think about what you’re trying to do to me
Let’s go back, let’s go back; let’s go way on, way back when, back when we use to swipe our favorite alternative band’s cassette...
Shimmer shimmer ya
The Bible describes angels as so mind-meltingly unfathomable to humans, the first thing they always say is “You gotta chill out, I’m cool. I...
International Film Series prepares a program of kung fu and musicals
I have always thought of the movie theater as my church,” says Pablo Kjolseth, executive director of the International Film Series (IFS). “It has a meditative quality. To be able to actually sit down in a dark theater where you can’t have all of your electronics ...
Spy of fortune
Actors so rarely get paid to sit still. This week at the movies, as Tom Cruise is on Imax screens playing a frantic, hamster-like intelligence gatherer in the new Mission: Impossible movie, we have also a superb adaptation of the John le Carre spy novel Tinker, ...
Lab results
Sarah Adina Smith is the first to admit that a career as a filmmaker wasn’t the most obvious path for her life.
“It took me...













