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Once upon a time in war-torn Europe…
Paris, modern day: The cleanses are coming.
Staying one step ahead, the passenger (Franz Rogowski) flees Paris, stowing away on a train bound for Marseilles....
Being near Emma Watson
Reconciling the public’s fascination with Emma Watson’s blossoming sexuality with realizing that the first time she was on screen she was 11 years old is really difficult. Doing so in a movie where her character’s sexuality is fundamentally warped because of an ...
Thanks, Morgan Freeman
I’ll be honest, in the spirit of the honestly shameless heartwarmer Dolphin Tale. I saw it in a somewhat distracted, agitated state...
Changing the face of cinema
Remember those old movies? The ones where a couple drives down the road, only they aren’t driving, they’re sitting in a car on some studio lot. And that’s not a road behind them; it’s a rear projection of road. Looks fake doesn’t it...
The Disney ouroboros
It all started in Kansas City with a young dreamer named Walt Disney. Alice’s Wonderland wasn’t his first creation, but it was significant. The...
Home viewing: Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock may not have invented the moving image, but he defined what it was capable of.
The son of a London grocer, Hitchcock’s career...
L’enfant du cinema
A director only makes one movie in his life,” said filmmaker Jean Renoir. “Then he breaks it up and makes it again...
The year in film
Lydia Tár is broken. Pulled from the podium, kicked out of her Berlin apartment, barred from seeing her daughter, the disgraced conductor returns to...
