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Two months ago when I wrote up my summer movie preview, I identified two weekends that would feature a clash of blockbusters. One was...
Talk to Me: Left Hand of Darkness
There are some eerie similarities between the two horror movies dropping in multiplexes this weekend. Both Haunted Mansion and Talk to Me have Black...
Film Shorts // July 26 – August 1, 2023
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Afire (NR) This German drama by Christian Petzold (Phoenix) is about a group of friends whose summer vacation is threatened by a forest fire....
Blow-Opp
Why do we watch a three-hour historical epic? We do it to be swallowed up. Other types of movies can make us see how...
Barb and the Real Girl
Maybe you saw the trailers for Barbie and, like me, you wondered just what this thing is. I’ve seen the movie now, and oh, let...
Film Shorts // July 19-25, 2023
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Annapurna Photo Studio (NR) This Indian romance set in the 1980s stars Chaitanya Rao Madadi, Lavanya Sahukara, Lalith Adithya, Viva Raghava, and Uttara Reddy....
MI7: AI Don’t Like You
I was going to start off this review with a rant about movie franchises always breaking their final chapters into two parts, which squeezes...
Nimona: Ch-Ch-Changes
There was a mild foofaraw last fall when Pixar included an openly gay teen couple in Strange World, but that movie is hopelessly tame...
Film Shorts // July 12-13, 2023
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Baby (NR) This Indian romantic film is about two young people who fall in love. Starring Anand Deverakonda, Mounika Reddy, Seetha, Vaishnavi Chaitanya, and...
Joy Ride: Go Back to China
Back in 2004, Asian-American dudes were spotlighted in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. It should not have taken almost 20 years for...
