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If I Were a Queen
Sofia Coppola’s third film, Marie Antoinette comes trailing bad buzz from Cannes this past summer, where a largely French crowd greeted it with boos...
Blogging “Black Swan” (Part 3)
I didn't know how many installments there would be of this series when I started out, but now I've decided there will be five....
We Are Lady Parts: Rock and Allah
A story with a point of view that you haven’t heard before is one thing, but when it’s expressed with so much confidence, that...
Film Shorts
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Beasts of No Nation (R) Cary Joji Fukunaga (TV’s True Detective) adapts Uzodinma Iweala’s novel about a 14-year-old boy (Abraham Attah) who’s drafted into...
Star Wars: Rey of Hope
The Star Wars series doesn’t really end, but given the elegant decision to tell this epic in chunks of three movies, Star Wars: The...
Learn From the Monsters
Early in Pixar’s latest movie, Monsters University, Mike Wazowski (voiced by Billy Crystal) steps onto the campus of his college for the first time...
Death of a Unicorn: Poke My Heart
Last summer’s Cuckoo was the only horror movie that had scientists breeding human-cuckoo hybrids to enact large-scale mind-control, and Death of a Unicorn also...
Rabbit Hole: Childless Parents
Whither the prestige picture? I’m talking about straightforward, visually handsome, modestly budgeted films that feature a few high-powered actors tackling weighty issues, usually working...
Men: Male Parts
The psychology guys say that while staring at the color green tends to soothe people, staring at the color red tends to have the...
After Hours
Change is inevitable, especially with people’s media-viewing tastes and habits, but we seem to live in a weird time, when time itself no longer...
