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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...
‘Daybreakers’ follows standard vampire flick model
In the "Daybreakers" future, the vampires have it all worked out...
Kung Ow Kickin’
Sometimes, life is simple. If you don’t like beef, don’t order a rib-eye. If you don’t like stale, recycled jokes, don’t watch CBS sitcoms. If you don’t like action movies, avoid The Raid: Redemption like a television-phobic vegan would avoid the stuff mentioned ...
This must be the place
The stage is empty save for one microphone and a boom box. A man in a gray suit and an acoustic guitar walks up,...
When death misses
There was a scene, lo those many (OK, 11) years ago, in the original Final Destination. One of the characters who inadvertently “cheated death” and ruined “death’s grand design” had holed up in a cabin, which then had to be made accident-proof...
Brand Xenu man
Writer/director/demigod of modern American cinema Paul Thomas Anderson — or PTA, as his peeps call him — has a filmography so stunning that merely making a very good movie means it’s his worst one yet. So, with a heavy heart comes the news that The Master isn’t ...
Nostalgia for the frame
Elsa Dorfman isn’t interested in your soul; your surface is more than enough. And since the 1960s, Dorfman has photographed those surfaces with love...
Perry gets serious
It’s dated, theatrical and overthe-top. In the 35 years since the play’s premiere, it still doesn’t cut black men a lot of slack...
Falling through plot holes
Limitless is about a drug that rewires your brain so that instead of having access to the usual 20 percent, you can utilize it all. Every memory is eidetic; everything you’ve ever seen, heard, learned, touched, tasted can instantly be integrated into your experiences...
