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Daily Archives: September 14, 2022
Movie Review: “How Dark They Prey,” How bad can it be?
Well, there’s an hour of my life I’ll never get back. “How Dark They Prey” is a quartet of ineptly-scripted, randomly-assembled, adequately-shot but amateurishly-acted short horror films that fall under the broad horror subheading of “claptrap.” They include the worst … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou’s “Take Out” (2004)
Long before they shot the serio-comic transgender odyssey “Tangerine” on a cell phone, over a decade before “The Florida Project” became an Oscar-buzzed drama about the transient-hotel homeless of Orlando, Sean Baker and producer Shih-Ching Tsou co-directed a gem about … Continue reading
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Next screening? “Don’t Worry Darling”
Nothing like catching a picture going down for the third time, drowning in a s–tstorm of bad buzz. Olivia Wilde, still getting Vanity Fair puff pieces after being exposed — repeatedly — as a faithless lover and liar. Olivia Wilde … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Kate Hudson, Craig Robinson, Ed Skrein and Jeon Jong-seo Dive into the Wild Thing that is “Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon”
New Orleans at its most demented. Stranger than fiction. But not stranger than science fiction. Sept. 30.
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Documentary Review: The Irish Artist as Agitator, Sinead O’Connor — “Nothing Compares”
The pop star of the moment stood on a quiet, dimly-lit stage behind lit candles and performed a Bob Marley song, “War,” a cappella. When it was ending, she held up a photo of Pope John Paul. She tore it … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A Psychopath’s Origin Story — “Pearl”
“Pearl” was the aged, sex-obsessed psychopathic matriarch and villain of Ti West’s satiric, social commentary slasher picture “X.” She was played by actress Mia Goth, who also played the libidinous teen whose Texas family farm has been rented by a … Continue reading