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Daily Archives: August 9, 2023
Movie Review: Tragedy and romantic baggage hang over a couple’s “Love Life”
Layers of hurt and pieces of a puzzle peel away over the course of Kôji Fukada’s “Love Life,” a forlorn and downbeat drama with dissonant dramedy touches. It’s intriguing yet so slow and quiet as to test one’s patience, duller … Continue reading
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Preview: Mel Gibson enters the “John Wick” universe — “John Wick: The Continental”
Gibson joins Collin Woodell, Nhung Kate, Katie McGrath, Jessica Alain and…Ray McKinnon in this continuation “prequel” of Wickworld and the hotel for assassins. For those not following the post-“cancellation” Mel Gibson saga, this sort of violent action setting has been … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: In the rural South, “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt”
A tone poem on rural life, community and Black life in the rural South. A fall feature from our friends at A24.
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Movie Review: Emilia C. and Chiwetel E. make a baby — “The Pod Generation”
“The Pod Generation” is an aridly-dry sci-fi satire about childbirth in a more technologically convenient future. It’s a dark comedy that’s more cautionary than amusing, and downright triggering at times. Writer-director Sophia Barthes extrapolates our app-obsessed/mega-corp-controlled present world into that … Continue reading
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