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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 ...
Big movies come in small films
It may be Hollywood’s biggest night, but the Academy Awards are much more than a TV show that trots out Hollywood’s elite and validates...
Don’t shoot, shoot, shoot that thing at me
Like many of my favorite scenes from The Accountant, the best one never actually happens.
Having just watched hunky dreamboat/obvious-serial-killer accountant Christian Wolff (Ben...
Movie Madness
It seems nerve-wracking. Showing more than 50 films over four days at numerous venues in one small city. Hosting world-class celebrities including Oliver Stone and James Franco. Organizing a mostly volunteer staff of almost 300 people. Seated on a couch in the ...
Under a rock
With 127 Hours, the Oscar-winning director of Slumdog Millionaire proves it’s possible to make a supercharged, perpetually kinetic movie about a man who can’t move. It is something, this film from director Danny Boyle, who adapted Aron Ralston’s memoir Between a Rock...
Surreally ambitious
The year’s best films thus far — writer/director Ari Aster’s Hereditary and writer/director Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You — have two major similarities:...
Nothing to be afraid of
When fantasy filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says he considers the 1973 made-for- TV movie Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark the scariest thing ever made for the medium, he’s not really talking about the teleplay itself...
How the other half lives
To say loyal viewers of The Venture Bros. were left hanging this season is an enormous understatement. Halfway through season four, episode eight to be precise, kaboom! No more episodes. Since each of the previous three seasons was, on average, 13 episodes, fans ...
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...
Funny noir die
Sporting dialogue hotter than a recently spent shell casing and comedy slightly less dark than a necrophiliac stand-up comedian’s set, The Nice Guys targets...
‘Ninja Assassin’ run-of-the-mill
In Japan, where the blades are shiny and sharp and if the...
