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East of Wall: Land of Bad
East of Wall signals right away that it’s a modern Western, starting with TikTok videos that the main characters have made of their horses....
Film Shorts
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Dead Man’s Burden (NR) Jared Moshe’s Western stars Barlow Jacobs and Clare Bowen as a brother and sister who discover each other’s buried secrets...
Insidious: Last House on the Left
Damn, I love haunted house movies: The Haunting (the 1963 original), The Changeling, Alien (it’s a haunted house in space, OK?), you name it....
A Lonely Holdout in District 9
One of my fellow film critics has caused a bit of a dust-up: Writing in the New York Press, Armond White trashed District 9...
Aliens in America
Richard Jenkins is one of those actors you've probably seen several times without his name sticking in your memory.
He's 61, but his film career...
Odds and Ends
I’m not completely done with the movies of 2017 — the ogres over at Sony Pictures Classics didn’t let me see Loveless and A...
Film Shorts
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The Wolverine (PG-13) Hugh Jackman returns as the superhero, who’s summoned to Japan and offered a chance to lose his immortality. Also with Rila...
Fudge You, “Scarface”
You may have missed one of this week’s hottest downloads on YouTube: A Bartonville, Illinois elementary school production of Brian DePalma’s Cuban gangster campfest...
Extreme Job: Chicken Cops
I was waiting my whole life for someone to make a movie about fried chicken. I didn’t know that until I actually saw Extreme...
R.I.P., Claude Chabrol
"I love murder," the French film director reputedly once said. Indeed, many characters in his movies meet swift, brutal, meaningless deaths, so it seems...
