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Shape of Water: God and Monster
You know that Guillermo Del Toro is Mexican, and his latest cinematic fairy tale The Shape of Water is set in America, but watching...
The Best Filmmaking Debuts of 2014
If you read this blog regularly, you know that I don’t do a list of breakout talents every year. In 2014, however, I saw...
Tank Busting
I rather liked David Ayer’s last film, the 2012 found-footage cop drama End of Watch. The financial success of that movie has allowed him...
Atonal Music
I must confess, Freddie Highmore is starting to scare me a bit (in a good way, though).
The London native is 15 years old...
Film Shorts
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My Week With Marilyn (R) Simon Curtis’ dramatization of the uneasy collaboration between Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) and Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh)...
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...
Blackening: Behind the Green Door
This Juneteenth weekend comes The Blackening, which happens to be pegged to our newest national holiday. It’s adapted from a 2018 short film by...
Film Shorts
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (PG-13) Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush return for this fourth adventure as two pirates searching...
Eyes of Tammy Faye: Cross of Gold
When Jim Bakker was convicted on 24 counts of defrauding his investors at PTL Ministries in 1989, his wife and frequent TV host Tammy...
Atomic Blonde: Too Many Walls
Why didn't they try this before? Charlize Theron first came to attention back in 1996 with her small role in 2 Days in the...
