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Don’t miss tonight’s 8:30pm screening of Joseph Losey’s 1964 ”The Servant” on Turner Classic Movies. I’ve loved this Harold Pinter-scripted creepfest for years now,...
Seed of the Sacred Fig: A Movie in Secret
Mohammad Rasoulof is now an exile because he made The Seed of the Sacred Fig. The Iranian director was the talk of the Cannes...
Odds and Ends
I couldn’t get to the few movies that are being released in theaters this week, so I thought I’d run another of my yearly...
Film Shorts // June 1-7, 2022
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Dashcam (R) Annie Hardy stars in this found-footage horror film as an American who livestreams her road trip through the U.K. only to discover...
Fangs for the Memories
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The fourth annual Texas Frightmare Weekend, um, killed at the Sheraton Grand Hotel-DFW the weekend of May 2. There were special guests, like...
Film Shorts // June 22-28, 2022
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The Black Phone (R) This horror film stars Mason Thames as a 13-year-old boy who is abducted by a serial killer (Ethan Hawke). Also...
Notes From the Modern Cinema Festival
Christopher Kelly's Modern Cinema: Great Movies You Haven't Heard of … Yet festival just concluded, and as usual, I found some of his picks...
The Drop: Streetlight People
It’s likely that the late James Gandolfini’s performance in The Drop will be lauded in tearfully hyperbolic fashion, maybe even to the point where...
Pot P.I.
Here’s a great matchup of movie director and book. Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 novel Inherent Vice features the reclusive postmodern giant at his wackiest and...
Film Shorts
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After Class (NR) Justin Long stars in this comedy as a professor who flees campus for a week after his behavior lands him in...
