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Year: 2017

curated: Ryan Gosling is correctly upset about one aspect of ‘Avatar’

Mon, Oct 02, 2017
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From Saturday Night Live…

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#Raindance2017: In Another Life, Hello Again, Maya Dardel

Sat, Sep 30, 2017
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Quick takes from the 25th Raindance Film Festival, with public screenings in London through October 1st, 2017.

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Flatliners movie review: DOA

Fri, Sep 29, 2017
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The reboot no one asked for of a movie no one much remembers has landed… and it’s dead on arrival, with nothing new to say and no new way to say it.

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Pecking Order documentary review: ruffled feathers and fowl play

Fri, Sep 29, 2017
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An absolutely hilarious and very pointed exploration of politics and culture on the smallest possible scale. And a lot of good-lookin’ chickens.

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I rewatched the 1990 ‘Flatliners’…

Fri, Sep 29, 2017
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…and I livetweeted it.

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#Raindance2017: Black Hollow Cage, Stuck, Mukoku

Thu, Sep 28, 2017
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Quick takes from the 25th Raindance Film Festival, with public screenings in London through October 1st, 2017.

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Home Again movie review: imitation of life

Wed, Sep 27, 2017
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Precious, fatuous, Nancy Meyers–lite rom-com about a privileged rich white lady with no real problems who can’t help but mom her much-younger new boyfriend. Barf.

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American Made movie review: they’re quite bad fellas, in fact

Mon, Sep 25, 2017
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Style and humor galore, and a hugely entertaining performance from Tom Cruise. But should a true story of immense governmental corruption be quite this fun?

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Kingsman: The Golden Circle movie review: deliver us from “edgy”

Mon, Sep 25, 2017
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Save us from male artists who think they are dangerously, uniquely innovative. This stew of toxic masculinity and CGI-cartoon violence is nothing but tediously mundane.

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Happy Hobbit Day!

Fri, Sep 22, 2017
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Today is the birthday of both Frodo and Bilbo Baggins.

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