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Portrait of a Lady: Hint from Héloïse

Today’s film-school term is “male gaze.” Developed in the 1970s by British film theorist Laura Mulvey, this idea holds that movies are made from...

The Best Jane Austen Movies

On account of the pandemic, Focus Features has announced it is releasing Emma. on streaming services tomorrow, and so I’m posting this listicle of...

Film Shorts

OPENING  Big Time Adolescence (R) This comedy stars Griffin Gluck as a teenager whose older best friend (Pete Davidson) starts to become a bad influence...

Swallow: Choking Hazard

Swallow is the first outing as a solo feature filmmaker for writer-director Carlo Mirabella-Davis (who co-directed the documentary The Swell Season), and I'm not...

Emma.: Make Me a Match

A few months ago, I mused about how new generations have new versions of Little Women to pick over. Why not do the same...

Traitor: Deep Six Mafia

I’ve always admired informants. A lot of people don’t. They call them rats and stool pigeons. They say “snitches get stitches.” It’s true, many...

Film Shorts

OPENING  Baaghi 3 (NR) Tiger Shroff reprises his role from the first two Indian action-thrillers, here traveling to war-torn Syria to kill everyone involved with...

Invisible Man: Evidence of Things Not Seen

In 1932, Rouben Mamoulian adapted Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde into a film. Robert Louis Stevenson’s science-fiction novel had already been made into at...

Top 5 Shows

1) Renegade Voices Collective presents a poetry slam at Shipping and Receiving (202 S Calhoun) on Wednesday night. I popped into this once before,...

Film Shorts

OPENING  Corpus Christi (NR) Not a film about the Texas city, this Polish drama nominated for the Oscar for Best International Film stars Bartosz Bielenia...