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Film Shorts // May 5, 2021
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Above Suspicion (R) This thriller based on the first American conviction for the murder of a federal agent stars Jack Huston as an FBI...
Wrath of Man: H Is for Heat
Sometimes in life, you just want to see Jason Statham shooting people. My last few movie reviews have required me to be quite serious...
Film Shorts // April 28-May 4, 2021
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Cliff Walkers (NR) This Chinese spy thriller by Zhang Yimou (Hero) is about a group of agents (Qin Hailu, Yu Hewei, Zhang Yi, and...
Truffle Hunters: White Gold
Marcella Hazan was a great expert on Italian cuisine, and I remember reading in her The Classic Italian Cook Book that farmers would forage...
The Best Movies of 2010
I didn’t run this piece in January like I wanted, for reasons involving file conversion that are only going to bore you silly. The...
Film Shorts // April 21-27, 2021
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Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train (R) A big-screen continuation of the anime TV series, this film features the continuing adventures of demon hunter...
Slalom: Après Ski
The first shot of Slalom is of a teenage girl’s ass. This French movie which played at last year’s virtual Cannes Film Festival has...
Oscar’s Hidden Gold
Just before everything went to hell, we had the last Oscars, that feel-good win for Parasite, and me writing this piece while we were wearing...
Film Shorts // April 14-20, 2021
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Jakob’s Wife (NR) The latest horror film by Travis Stevens (Girl on the Third Floor) stars Barbara Crampton as a small-town minister’s wife who...
In the Earth: Lost in the Woods
Most filmmaking activity has shut down during this pandemic, but not all of it. Inevitably, some directors were always going to look at the...
