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Movies based on plays are an odd sub-genre of movies. Oftentimes directors feel the need to try and “open up a play” to make...
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Outside the Wire is a movie that, despite its title, stays deep within the realm of familiarity. The film is entertaining, and the charm and...
Crossfire is a B-movie noir that is also one of Hollywood’s early attempts to explore bigotry in the form of antisemitism. It is also...
Pieces of a Woman starts out intimate and emotionally nuanced. But soon descends into manufactured melodrama and forced emotionalism for the sake of “art”. The...
Scandal in Sorrento is a 1955 Italian movie with only the barest hint of a scandal and a whole lot of Sorrento. It is pure...
I’m not exactly sure what to make of What Happened to Mr. Cha? The idea is fine and at times the film shows itself to be...
This year has given us a surprising number of inclusive holiday rom-coms and I Hate New Year’s is no exception. From Tello Films, which...
Movies based on plays are an odd sub-genre of movies. Oftentimes directors feel the need to try and “open up a play” to make...
Just in time for the holidays, I interviewed award-winning actress, writer, and producer Nia Fairweather. While many viewers are meeting Nia for the first...
Julia Hart has taken the genre of crime thrillers, specifically, those from the 70s, and rather than deconstruct or gender-bend it, has, with I’m Your...
Being a voluntary orphan sucks hard sometimes, especially during the holidays. For the past three years, I have had to renegotiate my relationship to...
The Prom is a flashy, sort of sloppy, assortment of Broadway set pieces, that is far too long for how shallow it is. All that...
In an attempt to keep up with the ever-expanding cast of Spider-Man 3, the planned Venom sequel has added a couple of big names...
Change is coming to your local multiplex, whether it likes it or not. Hollywood and movie theaters have finally been forced to face a...
A Brazilian Christmas movie, Roberto Santucci’s Just Another Christmas is not unlike another movie I watched this week Godmothered. Sadly, it does not have the...
It’s easy to watch Sharon Maguire’s Godmothered, and see two different movies at war fighting for supremacy. One a smart acerbic darkly funny satire on fairy...
Conductor: Man, they look wobegon, and far away. Macreedy: Oh, I’ll only be here twenty-four hours. Conductor: In a place like this, it could...
