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Writer-director Oren Peli's Paranormal Activity has been labeled "the next Blair Witch Project" - meaning, essentially, horror's new runaway phenomenon - and judging from...
Film Shorts
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Big Stone Gap (PG-13) Ashley Judd stars in this drama as an Appalachian eccentric who discovers a secret in her past. Also with Patrick...
How to Build a Girl: Dolly Rock
If you saw Booksmart, you probably didn’t look at Beanie Feldstein and think that she'd be able to slot into a naturalistic English dramedy...
Off Keys
I liked Ramin Bahrani’s movies much better when they weren’t about white people. The 40-year-old North Carolina native of Iranian descent began his career...
Skin I Live In: Hide and Sick
OK, here’s one of the more messed-up things I’ve seen in a while, and I mean that mostly in a good way. Much of...
“Footloose”: Actor by Actor
Chris Penn and Kevin Bacon, 1984
Miles Teller and Kenny Wormald, 2011
I wanted to compare and contrast the actors playing the same roles in each...
Film Shorts // November 8-14, 2023
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Adventures of the Naked Umbrella (NR) This comedy stars Jeremy Davies as a conspiracy theorist who goes into a tailspin after his trailer home...
Us: We Have Met the Enemy
Like Stephen King, Jordan Peele is a master at setting up an aggressively normal world and then introducing details that are further and further...
Film Shorts // December 15-21, 2021
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Fortress (R) Bruce Willis and Jesse Metcalfe star as father-and-son cops who try to thwart a gang of criminals. Also with Chad Michael Murray,...
Film Shorts
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Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice (PG-13) Zack Snyder (300) directs this blockbuster as Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) tries to clamp down on the...
