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Film Shorts // August 18-24, 2021
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Bellbottom (NR) Akshay Kumar stars in this Indian thriller as a spy leading a team to rescue 210 hostages from an airplane hijacking in...
Cryptozoo: Fantastic Beasts
We know about outsider art, but is there such a thing as outsider animation? If there is, then Cryptozoo certainly belongs to that category....
Film Shorts // August 11-17, 2021
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Buckley’s Chance (NR) This drama stars Milan Burch as a kid from New York who’s forced to move in with his estranged grandfather (Bill...
Raging Fire: Yen for Justice
The Hong Kong filmmaker Benny Chan was working on Raging Fire in 2019 when he was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer. He died from the...
High on the Hog: Streaming Soul Food
I spent part of this past Juneteenth watching Netflix’s High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America, and it felt appropriate to...
Free Guy: Not PC
I started playing SimCity in the early days of the lockdown. I did it out of sheer, soul-crushing boredom and quickly became addicted to the...
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...
The Suicide Squad: You Kill Me
Let’s all just pretend that the original Suicide Squad movie never happened, okay? I’m so ready to do that, especially now that I’ve seen...
Annette: La La La Means I Love You
Leos Carax! You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting to write about this French filmmaker whose view of life and movies is...
Film Shorts // July 28-August 3, 2021
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Ishq: Not a Love Story (NR) This Telugu-language remake of a 2019 Malayalam romantic thriller stars Teja Sajja, Priya Prakash Varrier, and Ravindra Vijay....
