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Cosmopolis (R) David Cronenberg’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel stars Robert Pattinson as a young financier whose world comes apart as he rides in...
Furie: Oh, Ngô!
Martial-arts films have been a financial mainstay and a source of pride for the movie industries of China and Japan. More recently, South Korea,...
Turkey Time
Even with the advent of computers, it takes so much effort by so many people to make an animated film. That’s why even substandard...
Garden of Eden: Bourne Identity
Here’s a movie with a tortured history. Garden of Eden was a manuscript that Ernest Hemingway worked on from 1946 until his 1961 death....
Drifting Cowboy
>I Saw the Light opens with a bold statement of intent: Hank Williams (Tom Hiddleston), perched on a stool on an otherwise bare stage,...
R.I.P., Vernon Fisher
All the obituaries for Vernon Fisher are using the words “blackboard” or “chalkboard.” It is true, many of the artist’s works feature an off-black...
Film Shorts // August 4-10, 2021
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Escape From Mogadishu (NR) The title doesn’t sound like it belongs to a Korean film, but the movie dramatizes the real-life ordeal over two...
“Ticked-Off” DVD Release Party
If you missed our August cover story on the controversy over the locally filmed “transploitation” thriller Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives, here ‘tis again. Writer-director...
Caught Stealing: Giants Fan
In some ways, Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing reminds you of his first feature film π. It’s set in 1998, when π was released, it...
Creature Features
Few things are more comforting for me at the end of a hard day than watching a crowd of panicked humans screaming and running...
