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The joke goes that a bomb technician only ever makes two mistakes in his career, the first being taking on the job to begin...
Scarlett and Black
When Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff died in Avengers: Endgame — uh, spoiler alert — I thought, “She can’t be dead, because there’s going to be...
Cinematic Virtuosity
International piano competitions and glitzy film festivals make for interesting bedfellows. The mix seemed uneasy at first but slowly coalesced into a memorable evening...
Film Shorts // July 3-9, 2024
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Despicable Me 4 (PG) Where other long-running movie franchises run out of ideas, this fourth installment has so many ideas that they get in...
Beautiful Creatures: Good Witch of the South
I wasn’t overly impressed when I read Beautiful Creatures, the popular young-adult novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. So I was delighted to...
You Were Never Really Here: Hammer Time
If you know the name of Lynne Ramsay, it may very well be from a public spat with the producers of the Western Jane...
Nickel and Dimed
George W. Bush is out of office. Healthcare reform is on track to be enacted. So what do you do if you're Michael Moore?...
Film Shorts
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The Death of Stalin (R) Armando Iannucci (TV’s Veep) writes and directs this comedy about the chaos that engulfs the Soviet Union after the...
LSFF Report (Days 4-5)
My pathetic need for food to sustain my life caused me to miss This Changes Everything on Saturday morning, a documentary with Meryl Streep,...
Wrath of God
People are calling Spotlight a journalism drama, but you’ve probably seen too many movies about journalists that are adulatory or wildly inaccurate or just...
