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The Awakening (R) This period horror flick begins promisingly before collapsing into a pile of nonsense. Rebecca Hall stars as a scientific debunker of...
Mufasa: The Lion Sings
Male lions are full of crap. They roar, they have manes that look cool in photographs, and they fight among themselves for control of...
The Gay Terminator
Nothing needs to be added to Kristian Lin’s review of ”Bruno” this week, but I have a few personal notes on watching the movie....
Uh Huh Her
Spike Jonze has always been brilliant, but lately he’s become something more. You can see it in the tenderness that pervades both his previous...
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Big Kill (R) Scott Martin writes, directs, and co-stars in this Western about a group of misfits meeting in a small town. Also with...
Honk for Jesus: The Pastor’s Wife
The latest film about the Black church is the mockumentary comedy Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. It’s by no means the best; The...
Phantom: Cold Sub
In the narrow field of movies set on Soviet submarines, Phantom comes a distant second to The Hunt for Red October and struggles to...
Oscar’s Hidden Gold
Just before everything went to hell, we had the last Oscars, that feel-good win for Parasite, and me writing this piece while we were wearing...
Mixed Subjects
Transcribing an interview with Jeff Fraley and Harry Lynch proves to be hard work.
Interviewed by phone from their offices in Austin, they both talk...
The Best Actors of 2009 (Non-Oscar edition)
I’m doing something different this year for my list of the best acting performances. I figured that you don’t need me to tell you...
