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Props for doing his own singing and growing his own hair into a Dylanesque mop. Scoot McNairy is the dying legend Woody Guthrie, Elle Fanning is Sylvie (renamed version of Suze Rotolo), Monica Barbaro is Baez, Boyd Holbrook takes a … Continue reading →

Nicholas Tse stars in and choreographs the fights of “Customs Frontline,” a big budget Chinese shoot-em-up that features arms smuggling, a submarine, air raids and an African war fought over fishing rights. The only people who stand in the way … Continue reading →

A fin de sicle Western,, with horses and murder and snow and Tin Lizzies? Dinklage is a bounty hunter? Juliettte Lewis and Arliss Howard also star in this Tarantinoesque stomp through snow and violence, due out from Samuel Goldwyn Sept. … Continue reading →

The Woke Wars are far from over. Ask any white-wellies Nazi runt in Florida about that. But if the defiantly queer, teasingly trans indie drama “National Anthem” accomplishes nothing else, it seizes “patriotic” iconography from the pick-up truck decoratin’ rednecks … Continue reading →

Rare is the vintage French history-of-champagne romance that winds up in the loving hands of tiny distributor Vertical Releasing. So when a “Widow Clicquot” comes along, one simply must pop a cork and indulge. One must. Director Thomas Napper earned … Continue reading →

A terminally ill American in search of a phantom massacre of WWII. Josh Hutcherson and Danny Huston are among the co stars. A much delayed drama finally making it our way.

Willa Fitzgerald finds a one night stand that goes ever so wrong in this demonic serial killer thriller. Kyle Gallner is “The Demon.” With Barbara Hershey and Ed Bagley Jr in support. Aug. 23.

Sophia Loren has been a screen and fashion icon so long, famous as one of the most voluptuous women ever to grace the screen, that it’s easy to forget how brilliant an actress she’s been. Earthy in Italian dramas, regal … Continue reading →

You scroll through your Amazon Prime queue and notice that there’s an Emma Roberts comedy called “Space Cadet,” a film that she just made it and that it’s not some project you missed from her teens and 20s (she’s 33). … Continue reading →

Look at the sight gags, reason out the plot, read the jokey subtitles. Aug 30.