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A Quiet Place: Part II movie review: this one goes to 11

Fri, May 28, 2021
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A marvel of a sequel that smartly avoids any attempt to recapture the original, instead expanding its world in every way possible. Brisk, crisp, efficient, and full of masterful sequences of suspense.

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movie-related flash-fiction freebie: “Disney Dystopia”

Mon, Sep 02, 2019
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“Hey, so you wanna go to the disneys tonight?”

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jan 26

Thu, Jan 25, 2018
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Two tiny releases — both about women but both written and directed by men — are all that’s new on offer this week for anyone looking for women’s stories.

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Please Stand By movie review: fan trek

Thu, Jan 25, 2018
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A lovely, gentle geek adventure that appreciates the importance of fandom as a source of inspiration and comfort, with a subtle and resolutely unsentimental performance by Dakota Fanning as an autistic fan.

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Monster Trucks movie review: what a car-tastrophe

Wed, Jan 04, 2017
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What if “monster trucks” actually meant — wait for it — that there were monsters in the trucks? From an idea by a four-year-old (really), and it shows.

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the magic bullet for improving the number of women directors working in Hollywood

Thu, Jul 24, 2014
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It’s pretty goddamn clear that the “magic bullet” is this: Hire more women.

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is Russell Crowe’s Noah a “crazy, irrational, religious nut”?

Fri, Feb 14, 2014
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Paramount is hoping to sell Darren Aronofsky’s Noah to both secular and religious audiences. This’ll be fun to watch…

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Paramount kills celluloid

Tue, Jan 21, 2014
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I’ve never been one of those film fans who believes celluloid is better than digital. Still, this is big.

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American Hustle review: the humor, it burns

Fri, Dec 13, 2013
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Bursting with insanely engaging characters who are impossibly real and impossibly ridiculous whose stories you don’t ever want to end.

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your awards-season cheat sheet… or how to sound like an insider (even if you’re not)

Tue, Nov 19, 2013
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Shhh! don’t tell anywhere where you heard all this…

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