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Sucker punched in the head

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Imagine a building where one side is a dark, dreary insane asylum populated by sadistic guards, doctors and attractive female inmates, and the other side is a popular brothel and speakeasy. Sounds like the heart of a B-movie exploitation film, and that’s what Sucker ...

Flood of clichés

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Photographed with the same image acquisition technology James Cameron used on Avatar, the movie on which we can blame most of the cruddy 3-D films since, the new suspense thriller Sanctum, executive-produced by Cameron, presents images (underwater, generally) of ...

A sea of spider-people

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Watching Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the single closest feeling I’ve had to the first time I cracked open a comic book, beginning a...

Margarine-al humor

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In the wake a presidential debate that was almost fact-free on one side and nearly lifeless on the other, smearing Butter on one´s eyes seemed like a good option for poll junkies. This allegedly politically charged ensemble comedy promised a send-up of campaign ...

Oh well


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With the Trump administration playing a nonstop game of “hide and go seek your civil rights,” scary movies have to try harder to achieve...

Forget the stars, aim for right here

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You’re the star of where you are” is the message Cory McAbee wants to tell the world. “Give up your goals, stop reaching for the stars and look for the stars within [your] own mind...

Cinematography and ski porn

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From the opening shots of Solitaire, the new ski film from Sweetgrass Productions, you know you’re in for something different...

The Assistant

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She lives in Astoria, but she works in the City. That means the company car picks her up long before the sun has a...

Cine otro

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Looking for a way to celebrate Hispanic Heritage month? The Sie Film Center has a few ways for you, 15 in fact. Back for...

Light on bananas

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In spurts, Kong: Skull Island is the whacked-out, gleeful nonsense director Jordan Vogt-Roberts clearly longed to make. Straight-jacketed by a studio determined to craft...

Hurts so good

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In the lead up to its release, I can only imagine how many times director Lenny Abrahamson had to clarify, “No, you’re thinking of...

Your lowness

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What do you get when you combine an atrocious script with big-budget production and a bevy of top actors? Your Highness, one of the worst films I have had to sit through in a long time. To think that it featured Natalie Portman, James Franco and Zooey Deschanel ...