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Mirage
An inoffensive movie unless you think about it, A Hologram for the King begins with Alan Clay (Tom Hanks) on a flight to Jeddah,...
Bonus Film Review: Ghostbusters
Over the past year or so, a lot of hysterical men succeeded in making me ashamed of my own gender over the new reboot...
Film Shorts
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Predestination (R) Ethan Hawke stars in this thriller as a time-traveling cop trying to catch the one criminal who has eluded him throughout time....
Kvetch
"If you're stupid enough to want a feel-good movie, go get yourself a foot massage," says Boris Yellnikoff (Larry David) to the camera early...
Odds and Ends
I didn’t do this feature last year because I didn’t have enough entries to make a whole article about it. It’s returning with a...
Macbeth: Toil and Trouble
And still I haven’t seen a convincing film version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood comes closest, and Scotland, PA comes a...
Baby, It’s Fate
Javier Bardem made his American debut and snagged an Oscar nomination all in one bang when he portrayed the gay Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas...
The Best Movies of 2009
I used to do this feature on a regular basis, looking back on my Top 10 list from 10 years earlier, but that temporarily...
The Best Supporting Performances of 2013
Continuing my recap of the year in movies, here are the best supporting performances I saw in 2013. Usually the men get the better...
Film Shorts
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Abominable (PG) Not to be confused with last year’s Smallfoot, this animated yeti movie is about three Chinese kids (voiced by Chloe Bennet, Albert...
