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Extreme Job: Chicken Cops
I was waiting my whole life for someone to make a movie about fried chicken. I didn’t know that until I actually saw Extreme...
Film Shorts // April 13-19, 2022
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Beast (NR) This Indian action-comedy stars Vijay as a spy who becomes a hostage when terrorists take over a shopping mall in Chennai. Also...
Iran Arrests Filmmaker
Oh, this can't be good. The reports coming out of Iran say that movie director Jafar Panahi has been detained at an undisclosed location...
Oscar’s Hidden Gold
The Oscars have taken well-deserved flak for nominating no women for Best Director and only one actor of color out of 20, but as...
R.I.P., Adam Yauch
I was setting up to post today about The Avengers, but I got derailed by the news that Adam Yauch has died at age...
Go Toward the Light
Sunshine has nothing to do with the similarly titled 2000 film that starred Ralph Fiennes as three generations of Hungarian Jews living through the...
Film Shorts
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A Bad Idea Gone Wrong (NR) Filmed in Fort Worth, Jason Headley’s comedy is about two novice criminals (Matt Jones and Will Rogers) who...
R.I.P., Tom Huckabee
On Jan. 26, Jennifer Robles posted the news on Tom Huckabee’s Facebook feed that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer the previous August....
The Talented Miss Highsmith
Joan Schenkar’s “The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highmith,” reviewed on this week’s ”Books” page, could’ve been a...
The Best Supporting Performances of 2019
I have one caveat to share as I go through this annual feature. I relegated Robert Pattinson’s performance in The King to the honorable...
