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Fun Size: Late-Night Justice
This sounds like a canny piece of counterprogramming. Every year, the movie studios pollute October with another grim batch of horror sequels about ghosts,...
Cloud Atlas: Only Connect
Call a novel “unfilmable,” and you’re only waving a red flag in the face of certain filmmakers. David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas has been...
Benjamin Britten and “Moonrise Kingdom”
Benjamin Britten’s music is one of my specialties, as it happens, and it’s front and center for one of my favorite movies of the...
Film Shorts
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Alex Cross (PG-13) Tyler Perry stars in this adaptation of James Patterson’s novel about a homicide cop who confronts a serial killer (Matthew Fox)....
Sinister: Hum-Bughuul
If cinema has taught us anything, it’s that whenever a writer moves to a new town/house/hotel, he or she is inevitably going to scare...
Films on the Fly
Half a dozen things make demands on Jennifer Brown-Thomas’ time these days, but she looks remarkably put together as she arrives for an interview...
Donnie Nelson Screens Basketball Documentary
Mavericks fans and devotees of recent Eastern European history will want to show up at Dallas' Magnolia Theatre tomorrow evening. That's when Mavs' president...
Film Shorts
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The Paperboy (R) Lee Daniels (Precious) adapts Pete Dexter’s novel about an investigative reporter (Matthew McConaughey) returning to his Florida hometown to find the...
Argo, Psychopaths: Let’s Fake a Movie!
By coincidence, the titles of both movies this week refer to movies within the movies. Neither Argo nor Seven Psychopaths is really about the...
Catching Up With the Classics (Part 1)
A few weeks ago I blogged about Sight & Sound’s list of the greatest movies ever and urged you to see some of them....