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Cinema on the short side
In addition to the
praise and accolades each year’s Oscar nominations bring, there’s a fair amount
of teeth-gnashing and viewers crying foul. A stupid movie got...
The waiting is the hardest part
My grandmother once told me the greatest pain ever felt was felt by a parent burying her own child. Nothing could feel more unnatural....
Men ruin everything
I don’t want to review Mad Max: Fury Road. I want to write love letters to it or draw it like one of those French girls. If I could find the right keystroke combination, this review would just be one long onomatopoetic recreation of the feral roar of approval ...
Sentiment overshadowed by glitz
It is easy to watch Eat Pray Love, the pretty, languid film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling journal of self-discovery. Sun-drenched close-ups of asparagus drizzled just so on a plate next to very good-looking bread in Rome: aaaaah. A Balinese beach, ...
Iron curtain hurtin’
With apologies to SNL’s Cecily Strong, during its first 40 minutes, Atomic Blonde is “the person you wish you hadn’t started a conversation with...
Lost in a sea of memory
Few films can announce themselves as succinctly with an opening image as Frantz does. In the foreground: green leaves and pink flowers waving in...
Power play
Kalia Motley grew up in a world of nostalgia. Her mom was a connoisseur of vintage clothing and her dad a jazz musician. Through...
Good trouble
The year is 1923, and civil war wages on Irish soil. The country won independence from British rule the year prior, but conditions of...
Double fault
As the Supreme Poohbah of Pastry, Mary Berry, would far more eloquently and pleasantly explain from beneath the tent during The Great British Bake...
Cinema verboten
Between 1933 and 1945, Germany’s Third Reich produced 1,200 feature films, of which 300 were labeled propaganda by the Allies and banned from public screenings and distribution following the war. To this day, restrictions on 40 of these titles are still in place...
