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Barberic Violence
People who think of musicals as light and fluffy entertainment have been surprised that Tim Burton is doing one, even though previous Burton movies...
Trippy Dick
Back in his heyday some 30 years ago, pulp author Philip K. Dick was the literary equivalent of a paranoid nut-job. Some of his...
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...
Film Shorts // June 8-14, 2022
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Ante Sundaraniki (NR) This Telugu-language comedy is about a Brahmin man (Nani) who falls in love with a Christian woman (Nazriya Nazim). Also with...
Little Mermaid: Surf and Turf
I’ll tell you what my reaction was when I first saw Halle Bailey as Ariel in the trailer for The Little Mermaid. I thought,...
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...
Spencer: Di Slowly
Why do little girls dream of becoming princesses? Marrying royalty seems like the most exquisite form of misery. This is especially true of the...
Riding in Cars With Boys
Recent movies as different as Danny Cannon's Goal!
The Dream Begins, Joe Menendez' Ladrón que roba a ladrón, and Patricia Riggen's Under the...
It Stinks
This past weekend, I saw a 2½-hour movie about a bunch of social outcasts (mostly boys with one girl) who bonded when they were...
Certified Copy: Love Among the Ruins
In a small Tuscan village, we see an elderly Frenchman apparently yelling abuse at his wife in the middle of the piazza. But then...
