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question of the weekend: have you ever attended a film festival? (and if not, would you like to?)

Sat, Jul 17, 2021
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Do you have any particularly good — or bad — memories of the experience, perhaps of certain films you got to see that you wouldn’t otherwise have been able to, or of the overall vibe? Would you attend again, or have you?

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OFCS 2020 awards winners announced

Fri, Jan 29, 2021
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And the winners are…

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AWFJ 2020 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 05, 2021
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Isle of Dogs movie review: a breed apart, or a breed too far?

Fri, Mar 30, 2018
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Absolutely delightful and utterly original, with its lovingly crafted stop-motion animation bursting with sweetness but also with a winking mockery. I have just a few caveats…

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children movie review: infodump, the movie

Sat, Oct 01, 2016
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Relentlessly dull. A tour of a strange world and “characters” little more than their “peculiar” abilities isn’t enough to whip up fantastical excitement.

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Ghostbusters movie review: boo yeah!

Tue, Jul 12, 2016
95 comments

Kate McKinnon’s gleefully reckless physicist is brainy comic mayhem, unlike any female character we’ve seen before. And there are more reasons to cheer.

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The Jungle Book movie review: welcome to the jungle

Thu, Apr 14, 2016
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Goes right up to the bleeding edge of cinema to tell a story that is strapping yet simple, and hugely appealing. Disney found a good reason to redo an old film.

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Aloha movie review: hello, and good-bye

Thu, Mar 10, 2016
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A mess of a romantic dramedy full of colonialistic offensiveness, forced quirkiness, implausible emotion, and oblivious masculine self-centeredness.

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Where Are the Women? Rock the Kasbah

Mon, Feb 22, 2016
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From a mean ex to a hooker with a heart of gold, women exist in this world only for what they can do for — or to — the male protagonist.

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Rock the Kasbah movie review: whitemansplaining, the movie

Mon, Feb 22, 2016
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Behold Bill Murray as the white savior barreling into a foreign land and teaching the ignorant natives how to be better people. Obnoxious and tone deaf.

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