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Jason Clarke (foreground) tries to make peace with our new primate overlords in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

Cowboys & Simians

Don’t get me wrong. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is an incredibly skilled piece of work. The latest installment in the series...

LOTR: Holding Out for a Héra

When I wrote up my holiday movie preview last week, I wondered if a Japanese anime treatment of The Lord of the Rings would...

Beetlejuice: Say My Name, Say My Name

To watch Tim Burton’s 1988 macabre comedy classic Beetlejuice is to remember what made him such a force in filmmaking. At the tail end...

Film Shorts

OPENING  Bharat Ane Nenu (NR) Mahesh Babu stars in this Indian drama as a graduate of a Western college who returns home and decides to...
Insurgent

Out of Faction

Example No. 54,903,812 of the movie industry’s glass ceiling: While Hollywood is coming around at a snail’s pace to the idea that a fantasy-adventure...

Hit Me Again

Of all the living actors who’ve been knighted by the queen of England, have any of them found their way into more crappy movies...

Film Shorts // May 17-23, 2023

OPENING   Anni Manchi Sakunamule (NR) This Indian romantic film stars Santosh Sobhan, Malvika Nair, Ravendra Prasad, Rao Ramesh, Naresh, Gauthami, and Vennela Kishore. (Opens Friday) Bichagadu...

The Best Jane Austen Movies

On account of the pandemic, Focus Features has announced it is releasing Emma. on streaming services tomorrow, and so I’m posting this listicle of...

Film Shorts

OPENING: Is Anybody There? (PG-13) John Crowley (Intermission, Boy A) directs this drama about a morbid 10-year-old English boy (Bill Milner) who befriends a retired...

Justice League: Come Together

By now, you've probably heard that in the comic-book world, it was DC Comics who first got the idea to put their superheroes together...