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“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...
Amour, Quartet: Old Wave
Movies tend to neglect seniors as subjects. This is neither a recent phenomenon, nor is it a Hollywood thing. Filmmakers and audiences everywhere have...
The Rite Is Wrong
In the past I wondered whether they were running out of titles for movies that take place on submarines. Now I’m wondering whether they’re...
Alone in ‘Night Country’
Early in Episode 2 of True Detective: Night Country, tough cop Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) drops in on Fiona Shaw (Rose Aguineau), a local...
Mini Marvel
Movie fanboys, including me, were disappointed when Edgar Wright, the British cult director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End,...
Film Shorts
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Blue Is the Warmest Color (NC-17) The controversial top-prize winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is Abdellatif Kechiche’s film about a 15-year-old French...
Bride of Quietness
I saw Bright Star a month ago and was bored by it, but the rapturous reviews Jane Campion's biographical drama has been receiving in...
Miss Juneteenth: Right on Time
And so it came to pass that after three solid weeks of protests against racial violence by the police and a vote by the...
Beats, Rhymes & Life: Rap Promoters
A Tribe Called Quest came along in the early 1990s, when hip-hop music was dominated by murderously petty feuds and aggressive braggadocio. In this...
John Wick: Last Man Standing
How many ways can you shoot a man in the face? John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum has the answer: Three, just like the...
