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LSIFF Report (Day 4)

I got a big dose of high culture at LSIFF today, with Shakespeare, free jazz, and opera taking up my movies. Read on: Caesar Must...

Crouching Vikings, Hidden Dragon

The new animated movie How to Train Your Dragon takes its title and the names of its characters from a successful series of novels...

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

Opening Chappie (PG-13) The latest film by Neill Blomkamp (Distrtict 9) is about a police robot (Sharlto Copley) in a futuristic society who’s stolen and...

Film Shorts // April 26 – May 2, 2023

OPENING   Agent (NR) This Indian spy thriller stars Akhil Akkineni, Mammootty, Dino Morea, Sakshi Vaidya, Vikramjeet Virk, Sampath Raj, Denzil Smith, and Urvashi Rautela. (Opens...

Film Shorts

OPENING: The Raven (R) John Cusack stars in this thriller as Edgar Allan Poe, who’s called on to help solve a string of murders in...

Pitt Masters

Back in the 1990s, the TV show that people could not stop talking about was NBC’s ER. Starring a bunch of unknown actors (including...

Holiday Movie Preview

It’s that time of year again, when movies jockeying for awards-buzz and places on critics’ Top 10 lists crowd our multiplexes. To guide you,...

Boxer Willie

You should always be suspicious of homeless dramas that star Oscar-nominated Hollywood actors. There are so many different ways that such movies can go...

Farewell: Our Cancer Lies

Lulu Wang based The Farewell on her own experiences with her Chinese family, which she detailed in an episode of This American Life for...