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Divorce story
I have been here before,But when or how I cannot tell:I know the grass beyond the door,The sweet keen smell,The sighing sound, the lights...
‘Hidden Figures’ has bad-ass thinkers
Attention: Hollywood has accidentally made a mainstream movie that involves race without a substantial white savior character. Kevin Costner comes very, very close to...
Me and my pal Adolf
Jojo (Roman Griffin
Davis) is a good little Nazi. Jojo’s only 10 years old, but his brown shirt is
spiffy, his red arm badge is on...
Juarez: What is it good for?
Nobody show Donald Trump Sicario! Already willing to xenophobically cast ignorant shade on entire groups of people, director Denis Villeneuve and writer Taylor Sheridan’s film reads like Captain Floppy-head’s personal vision of what all of Mexico is like. If his ...
It whistleblows
There’s a good movie to be made about the controversial whistleblowing actions of Edward Snowden. It’s a documentary called Citizenfour, and you should really...
‘Ninja Assassin’ run-of-the-mill
In Japan, where the blades are shiny and sharp and if the...
‘Red Cliff’ a rare war movie invested in strategy
Red Cliff is the first Chinese-language film from John Woo in more than a decade, and reportedly the most expensive Chineselanguage movie ever made (though, once you see its Lord of the Rings-like immensity, that “reportedly” becomes “oh, totally”). It is two-and-...
Play these movies loud
It was just over a year ago, on March 6, 2020, when South By Southwest (SXSW) pulled the plug on its film, music and...
Twentieth-century mogul
For 50 years, Scott Eyman’s been collecting string. The author of over a dozen books on Hollywood history has a deep collection of research...














