Review: Riddick
I found myself in a weird quandary when I got excited for another Riddick film. I couldn’t really remember why I was excited. ...
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Review: A Touch of Sin
It’s remarkable what a little context can do. My initial impressions about A Touch of Sin were generally positive but also ambivalent. I ...
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Review: Blue Is the Warmest Color
There are many examples of desire in Blue Is the Warmest Color that are nuanced and downright erotic. These moments are communicated in ...
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Review: 12 Years a Slave
When 12 Years a Slave played at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, there were reports of walkouts during screenings, even among ...
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Review: All Is Lost
For some reason I was expecting Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity to be almost as spare as All Is Lost, though not quite. I actually ...
New Releases, week of 9/7/13: Sabrina’s Cat Edition
When the Sabrina the Teenage Witch show aired as part of ABC’s TGIF lineup, I thought it was the neatest show (but Boy ...
New Releases, week of 8/31/13: The Replacements Edition
I know there was some crazy stuff that happened in the music industry over the weekend that everyone’s been talking about on the ...
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Review: The Happy Life
I’ve been playing music for years off and on, but I’ve never been particularly great at it. Mostly I play the drums, but ...
New Releases, week of 8/24/13: Starzinger Edition
When I was a kid, I used to watch the same three or four episodes of Spaceketeers (aka Starzinger) on a VHS tape ...
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Review: Kick-Ass 2
Kick-Ass was one of the bigger surprises for me when I first saw it. Having not read the comic the film’s dark overtones, commentary ...
Review: Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Lee Daniels is known to be an envelope pusher, for better (Precious) or for worse (The Paperboy). When it was announced that he’d ...
New Releases, week of 8/17/13: Olympus Edition
The big new release this week is Antoine Fuqua’s White House Down, starring Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman. Oh, sorry, I meant Olympus ...