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Film Shorts // May 10-16, 2023
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Book Club: The Next Chapter (PG-13) Our ladies have ditched E.L. James in the sequel to the 2018 comedy, but it doesn’t improve things...
R.I.P., Vernon Fisher
All the obituaries for Vernon Fisher are using the words “blackboard” or “chalkboard.” It is true, many of the artist’s works feature an off-black...
Film Shorts // May 3-9, 2023
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Carmen (R) Ballet superstar Benjamin Millepied makes his filmmaking debut with this musical re-imagining of Bizet’s opera, starring Paul Mescal, Melissa Barrera, Elsa Pataky,...
Guardians of the Galaxy : Raccaccoonie
The first Guardians of the Galaxy movie had that one scene where a drunken Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) starts a bar brawl while wailing about...
Polite Society: Is This the Ria Life?
In 2021, I reviewed the TV comedy series We Are Lady Parts. That was the creation of Nida Manzoor, but since then, the show...
It’s Me, Margaret: Jersey Girl
This film version of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret comes to us at a time, doesn’t it? We have certain politicians — and...
Film Shorts // April 26 – May 2, 2023
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Agent (NR) This Indian spy thriller stars Akhil Akkineni, Mammootty, Dino Morea, Sakshi Vaidya, Vikramjeet Virk, Sampath Raj, Denzil Smith, and Urvashi Rautela. (Opens...
Chevalier: Black Violin
I’m an editor on Genius.com, and in that capacity I learned about Joseph Bologne, the 18th-century man better known by his title of the...
Pipeline: Set It Off
Two characters in How to Blow Up a Pipeline meet in a bookstore, where one is working and the other is a customer reading...
History Brooks
Mel Brooks was always a sketch writer. He started out on the 1950s TV program Your Show of Shows, part of a legendary writers’...
