Daily Archives: January 26, 2021

Movie Preview: “Silk Road” is coming our way Feb. 19

Jason Clarke, Alexandra Shipp and Nick Robinson star in this Lionsgate thriller about “the rise and fall of Silk Road, the infamous darknet site that sent a seismic shock through the World Wide Web.” Internet cops and robbers

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Movie Review: Denzel, Malek and Leto get “The Little Things” right

It’s the famous walk, a steady, cat-like lope that hasn’t changed with the decades, the way he turns on a half-menacing/wholly insincere smile when he needs it. It’s the way he lowers his head and raises his eyes in glowering … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “Wrong Turn” leads to terror and torture porn on the Appalachian Trail

As far as “fears” go, I typically prefer mysterious and unknown peril to frights shoved in my face, explained, back-storied and underlined. But that’s not how the “Wrong Turn” movies work. For twenty years these films have gotten good looking … Continue reading

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Netflix dominates “Independent” Spirit Awards nominations? Say what now?

Not sure how Netflix productions qualify as “Independent,” but somehow, they’ve garnered 16 nominations (Universal offshoot Focus had 10), and “real” indie A24 got a bunch. A wide range of films, streaming series and TV shows gained nominations, with films … Continue reading

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Classic Film Review: Frankenheimer’s black and white “The Train,” a “Monuments Men” that works

What is it about black and white celluloid that makes its modern digital equivalent feel so flat and washed out? Is it the texture, the nearly-invisible but implicit “grain” and sharpness? The contrast between light and shadow, the many shadings … Continue reading

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Movie Review: An All-Night DJ gets bitten at “10 Minutes to Midnight”

Horror veteran Caroline Williams, who’s been around since “Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2” back in the ’80s, gets a fine C-movie showcase in “10 Minutes to Midnight,” a tale of a “rabid” bat and the hallucinatory bloodlust consequences it has on … Continue reading

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Movie Review: A still-life Western in French — “Savage State (L’état sauvage)”

I blame karma for “Savage State.” You spend a lifetime bitching about “pace” and “urgency,” the notion for motion pictures to remember the “motion” part, and you’re punished with a French-Canadian still-life like this. “Savage State” is a Civil War … Continue reading

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