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Film Review – The Art of Self-Defense
The opening scene of Riley Stearn‘s uber-black comedy The Art of Self-Defense masterfully establishes the film’s tone from the outset. Casey Davies (Jesse Eisenberg) sits by himself at a restaurant as a French-speaking couple in the booth across brutally mock him in their native tongue.…
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Film Review – Spider-Man: Far From Home
Just a couple of months separated from the release of Avengers: Endgame, we’re back to pick up the pieces in a Starkless world through the prism of our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Far from Home. Not that he’s particularly interested in being our tour…
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Film Review – Yesterday
We all know Biff Tannen is a butthead, but can’t we at least admit his stealing of a sports almanac in the future to enhance his present is innately enticing? To be the only one on earth with information guaranteed to bring you fame and…
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Film Review – Pet Sematary
Thirty years separated from the mediocre original film, a new take on Pet Sematary has arrived in theaters to further push the narrative that Stephen King adaptations are good again, damnit! And what do you know, this one mostly is. Keep it up, Hollywood.
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Film Review – Vice
If all you want for Christmas this year is a little counter-programming, Adam McKay is here for you. A sort of spiritual successor to 2015’s The Big Short, McKay’s Vice narrows its focus in on one of the most brash, destructive politicians in U.S. history,…
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Film Review – Bad Times at the El Royale
Drew Goddard is back, baby! And boy does he have a lot on his mind. Perhaps too much, as his first helmed film since 2012’s wonderful The Cabin In The Woods consistently manages to feel as lofty as it does bloated.
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Film review – The Sisters Brothers
How far would you go to protect your brother? Risk life and limb, you say? What if said brother were a perpetual troublemaker with a fondness for (constant) booze and a dangerous temper? To what lengths do you go? The Sisters Brothers examines this quandary…
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Film Review – A Simple Favor
The trailer might tout it as being “from the darker side of director Paul Feig,” (Bridesmaids, The Heat) but rest assured, A Simple Favor is packed to the gills with laughs amidst all the luridness. Based on Darcey Bell‘s 2017 trashy beach read of the…
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