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Nocturnal Animals: Creatures of Darkness
Set in sunny Southern California and the backroads of Texas, Nocturnal Animals is nevertheless a piece of work that will chill you to your...
Malibu Shakespeare
The story instantly passed into legend among both comic book geeks and theater geeks: After wrapping shooting on The Avengers in 2011, Joss Whedon...
Film Shorts
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St. Vincent (PG-13) Bill Murray stars in this comedy as a misanthropic war veteran who agrees to babysit an 11-year-old boy (Jaeden Lieberher) who...
After Earth: Aftertaste
Remember when M. Night Shyamalan was a household, if lazily mispronounced, name? The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs made him and his signature twist...
Film Shorts
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Alone (R) Bear with us here: This is not the horror movie by the same title that came out five weeks ago, but a...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2012
Once again, it's time for my favorite recurring blog post of the year. As you'll recall, I published a 2011 version of this post...
La Mission Is Missin’
Watching La Mission is a real whiplash experience. Writer-director Peter Bratt’s second feature follows intense, emotionally resonant scenes with moments that are so ham-fisted...
Bridesmaids Takes the Cake
There’s no shortage of recent comedy films that revolve around male friendship, so where are the equivalent movies about women? When it comes to...
Need a Lift?
The Sundance Film Festival may be known for earnest, small-scale dramas, but it also has been the launching pad for some brutally simple low-budget...
Household Saint
Really, St. Vincent isn’t anything new. This working-class dramedy is a modestly budgeted independent film, but it’s the same sort of sentimental tripe that...
