Monthly Archives: April 2022

Movie Review: “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair,” and the result could be horrific

“We All Went to the World’s Fair” is a self-consciously moody horror film that’s more interesting as an essay on loneliness than as a source of frights. And even the “interesting” label has its limits. Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun created a … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Viking Bloodlust is Personal for “The Northman”

Brawny and bloody, mythic and mystic, “The Northman” is a revenge quest as Viking saga, an epic that wears that label lightly. Robert Eggers’ grim, gory and gorgeous tale lets us sentimentalize “the hero’s journey,” and then disembowels that sentiment … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: A clip from “Escape the Field” verifies the truth in titling

It’s about people trapped…in a cornfield. It’s like they’re maze runners who can’t figure out a way out, “Six characters in Search of a Twilight Zone Exit,” or Steven King has another even less original son than the one that … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Karen Gillan has a clone problem — “Dual”

Writer-director Riley Stearns picked up on something that he was able to cash in on in casting Karen Gillan in “Dual,” his dark sci-fi thriller about a future when cloned “replacements” take over for the dying. Although he had to … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: “The Internet’s scariest horror game?” “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair”

Newcomer Anna Cobb stars in his Jane Schoenbrun tale, a vlogged experience, a shared terror opening April 22.

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Movie Review: An Iranian Family and their Dog “Hit the Road” in this Darkly Comic Odyssey

Any road trip with a small child might turn out to be a trial. But if the kid is as manic as the little Iranian boy in “Hit the Road,” there’s no doubt about it. He is wound-up, loud, blurting … Continue reading

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Next screening? “The Northman,” a he-man among Vikings

This is one of those spring titles I’ve been looking forward to. Bloody Vikings. Alexander Skarsgard and Nicole Kidman reunite for this, with Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke and Claes Bang along for good measure. “The Northman,” from the director of … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Rebel Wilson is a cheerleader headed back to school — to finish “Senior Year”

The new look Rebel Wilson stars in this “in a coma for 20 years” comedy about a cheerleader (“Cheer CAPTAIN.”) who has an accident, wakes up, and wants to go back and finish school…at 37. Looks raunchy and rude and … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank” unites Samuel L and Michael Cera…in animated form

Lot of fun voices on this martial arts/critters comedy, which opens July 15.

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Netflixable? “Yaksha: Ruthless Operations” gives Spy Games Koreans vs. the Rest of Asia Twist

A potboiler of a spy game thriller, “Yaksha: Ruthless Operations” is far more revealing about the state of rivalries in Asia than virtually anything to come out of the Far East of late. It’s a tale of South Korean spies … Continue reading

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