Review: Saltburn
Since Promising Young Woman was released back in 2020, I’ve had my eye on whatever Emerald Fennell’s next project would be. Promising Young ...
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MPAA celebrates 50 years of screwing up movie ratings
The Motion Picture Association of America, or MPAA, introduced a ratings system and censorship board in 1968 as a means for the industry ...
Gambit movie will have a romantic/sex comedy vibe
Look, I know that comic book movie news often takes little quotes and blows them out of proportion, and maybe this information from Gambit producer Simon ...
The Night of the Virgin trailer looks like grotesque fun
Gross movies are a blast for me. I know not a lot of people agree, but there’s something about splurts of goo and ...
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Tribeca Review: Slut in a Good Way
I’m not usually one for movies about teenagers going through the perils of teenage life. I lived through it, it sucked, and why ...
Review: Fifty Shades Freed
Fifty Shades Freed is the final chapter in a franchise that has been solemnly focused on one thing. No, not the bondage or ...
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Review: Raw
While playing at film festivals last year, the hype over Raw was insane. Writer/director Julia Ducournau’s coming-of-age horror/cannibal drama purportedly caused audience members ...
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Review: Tampopo
Prior to this week, the last time I saw Juzo Itami’s 1985 food comedy Tampopo was in the mid-90s. I remembered so little ...
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Review: We Are the Flesh
Reviewing We Are the Flesh from writer/director Emiliano Rocha Minter is tricky. On the one hand, it’s a deeply flawed film aimed at ...
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Review: Elle
Elle has been billed as a rape-comedy, but that’s a misnomer. It’s a comedy in the classical sense given the events of the ...
Quirky cult Japanese food comedy Tampopo getting 4k restoration and theatrical rerelease
To paraphrase Roger Ebert, Juzo Itami’s 1985 Japanese comedy Tampopo seems to exist outside of traditional categories. It’s a movie I remember enjoying ...
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Tribeca Capsule Review: The Last Laugh
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve noticed more conversations and thinkpieces about what topics are off-limits for comedians, such as racist jokes, jokes about ...