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When You Wish Upon a Rock
Seems like we just can't keep Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez apart. Two years ago, the filmmakers partnered up on Grindhouse, and this weekend...
Mini Femme est Grande Brat
This week’s ”Night and Day” piece by Kristian Lin gives historical background to The Modern’s two-weekend ”Catch the Wave” festival of French New Wave...
Film Shorts
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Adam (PG-13) Max Mayer's romantic dramedy stars Hugh Dancy as an Asperger's Syndrome case who falls in love with his upstairs neighbor (Rose Byrne)....
Illegal Aliens
This is why I love my job: Every so often I get to see things that I've never seen before. With special-effects technology becoming...
Camp Rock
This is why I love my job: Sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised when I expect nothing. Bandslam is a cookie-cutter teen comedy released in the...
Must-TiVo TCM
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,...
R.I.P., John Hughes
If you came of age in the 1980s, chances are you'll be flooded with sadness at the sudden death of John Hughes. The director/screenwriter...
No Homo, Watson
As an avid reader of Sherlock Holmes stories in my youth, I'm looking forward to this Christmas' release of the new movie Sherlock Holmes....
“I Can’t Believe My Grandmother Felt Me Up”
As a teenager, I was along for the John Hughes ride. His slang-filled, self-consciously hip adolescent movies coincided in near perfect chronology with my...
Film Shorts
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The Cove (PG-13) Louie Psihoyos' documentary about animal-rights activist Ric O'Barry and his attempts to film a dolphin slaughter off the coast of Japan....
