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Fathers and Sons
This week’s review of La Mission complains that the movie tries to do too much. It wants to be both a love letter to...
World Traveler
Most filmmakers I interview are quite happy to chatter about their own work. It is, after all, the purpose of our conversation. Not so...
Film Shorts // August 30 – September 5, 2023
OPENING
All Fun and Games (NR) Asa Butterfield and Natalia Dyer star in this horror film about a group of teens forced to play deadly...
Free Jafar Panahi!
Terrible news from Iran, as filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to six years in prison and banned from making movies for the next...
Body Issues
I seldom feel like I’m running out of words, but we’re at the end of a month where I’ve reviewed one movie about hotel...
Angry Birds: Red Mist
Movies based on video games continue to earn their wretched reputation, and I’m afraid The Angry Birds Movie won’t do anything to change that....
Protection Scheme
Conservatives like to complain (not without some basis) about how Hollywood frequently portrays them in a negative light. I hereby point out that just...
I, Robot
The Terminator was about time-traveling robots from the future sent to kill an unborn child named John Connor before he could grow up...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
Drive Hard (NR) John Cusack takes a break from all the grim thrillers he’s been doing to co-star in this lighthearted caper comedy that...
Arabesque
The Kingdom is the fourth movie directed by Peter Berg, and it’s obviously his bid to join that elite club of filmmakers whose action...
