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Dark: Déjà Vu All Over Again
Netflix is pushing Dark pretty hard since airing the third and planned final season of the acclaimed German science-fiction show. If you’ve heard anything about...
Promising Young Woman: To Catch a Predator
Someone’s coming for you, all you rapists, sexual predators, and even you friends and colleagues who enable them. She doesn’t look like much, but...
Cruella: Bossypants
I’ll admit I was skeptical when I heard Emma Stone was going to play Cruella de Vil for Disney. Surely she was too young...
Honk for Jesus: The Pastor’s Wife
The latest film about the Black church is the mockumentary comedy Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. It’s by no means the best; The...
Sputnik: Passenger
For decades, Russian filmmakers have largely ignored the international audience. They’ve made films strictly for domestic moviegoers, because there have been enough of those...
Film Shorts
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Black Christmas (PG-13) Sophia Takal (Always Shine) directs this second remake of the 1974 slasher flick about a group of college students stalked by...
Supernova: We Are All Made of Stars
In my travels, I’ve come across numerous movies that were dull, bad, or ordinary yet had a single moment or scene that achieved greatness....
Despicable Me: One to Gru On
The trailer for Inception has caused a stir in movieland by being mysterious and not giving away too much of the movie’s plot. Well,...
Film Shorts
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Alpha (PG-13) Kodi Smit-McPhee stars in this long-delayed epic about a cave-dweller during the Ice Age who must rely on a rescued wolf...
1917: One Shot
Sam Mendes’ war films like Jarhead and the current 1917 have tried to replicate the visceral thrill and horror of combat without glorifying it....
