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Eras Tour: Swift Success
I, Kristian Lin, being of sound body and relatively sound mind, hereby resolve not to quote any Taylor Swift lyrics in this review of...
The Royal Hotel: Don’t Blame It on the Alcohol
I didn’t hop on the hype train for The Assistant when I saw it in 2020. While I pegged director Kitty Green as someone...
Film Shorts // October 10-17, 2023
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Bhagwan Bharose (NR) This Indian comedy stars Satendra Soni and Sparsh Suman as two kids who try to make sense of their religious teachings...
When Evil Lurks: Patagonia Possession
Fifty years after The Exorcist broke new ground in horror cinema, a new movie about demonic possession comes to our multiplexes that’s fully in...
She Came to Me: Opera Man
It was 21 years ago that I went to the then-new Magnolia Theater in Dallas and saw Personal Velocity. An anthology film with three...
Film Shorts // October 4-10, 2023
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Chang’an (NR) This Chinese animated film is about the friendship between a feudal soldier (voiced by Yang Tianxiang) and a hard-partying eunuch (voiced by...
Hail The Creator
The advance word about The Creator has been mostly adulatory, with people saying that it’s the next great step in big-budget science-fiction. Respectfully, I...
Film Shorts // September 27 – October 3, 2023
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Asedio (R) This Spanish cop thriller stars Natalia de Molina as a Madrid officer who stumbles across a web of police corruption that threatens...
It Lives Inside: Fear Eats the Soul
They do make horror movies in India, but those are seldom exported, and for a good reason: Their aesthetics don’t translate so well to...
Dumb Money: The Kitty of Wall Street
One of the things that cheered me up in those dark days of January 2021 was the news about the GameStop stock. A number...
