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Bonus Film Review: 10 Cloverfield Lane
The headline on the Guardian's review of 10 Cloverfield Lane reads "more Hitchcock than Xbox." I like the British newspaper, but this isn't one...
Grim and Grimmer
If you’ve heard anything about The Brothers Grimsby, it’s probably that the movie has a joke in which Donald Trump contracts AIDS. Supposedly the...
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Embrace of the Serpent (NR) Nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, this Colombian drama is about an Amazon River shaman (Antonio Bolívar)...
Buried Child
If you’ve seen a few too many uninspired Holocaust dramas like I have, you might start to think that the subject is played out...
Film Shorts
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The Boy and the Beast (PG-13) This Japanese animated film by Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars) is about a street kid who stumbles upon a...
The Hop Cop
I must admit that for a Disney animated film about an adorable little bunny rabbit, Zootopia proved harder to shake off than I expected....
Unbreakable Kimmy Baker
I hate to keep harping on the subject of whitewashing, but Hollywood keeps shoving it back in my face. One of the major supporting...
Film Shorts
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Backtrack (R) Adrien Brody stars in this supernatural thriller as a psychiatrist who discovers that all the patients he’s been seeing are ghosts. Also...
Oscar’s Hidden Gold
I’m joining the Oscar boycott this year. It’s partly out of sympathy with #OscarsSoWhite, but it’s mostly because I don’t think any of the...
Bonus Film Review: The Mermaid
Big movies tend to come out in the Far East around Chinese New Year, and the recent festivities included the likes of Kung Fu...
