Suspenders of disbelief

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Politics on screen

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Screen

Taylor can’t Kitsch a break

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Ask former Friday Night Lights actor Taylor Kitsch what he did this summer, and if he’s honest, he will tell you he set his career on fire. Yes, let us weep for Kitsch and his Greek God physique, overflowing bank accounts and unquestionable green light to mate with ...

Earth, wind and fire

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Most movies, on some level, are about reconciling the space between parents and their children. It’s the theme that runs right through the heart...

Merchandise in lieu of a movie

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Cars 2 had every chance to improve upon the leisurely 2006 animated feature from Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Studios. Yet here we are, stuck with a merchandising assembly line in lieu of a movie. Despite its technical and design finesse, this ranks as ...

Dumb wolf in smart sheep’s clothes

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To review The Wolf of Wall Street at this stage of the game is to enter into a narrative feud with able critical champions on both sides...

reel to reel | Week of Dec. 29, 2011

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The Adventures of Tintin See full review Page 39. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked The chipmunks’ third digitally animated turn on the big screen parks the guys, their three Chipette counterparts and their ...

Satanist or satirist?

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Few words in the English language come as charged as “Satanism.” Conjuring images of blasphemy, ritual, sacrifice and perversion, Satanism seems to be the...

Best picture(s)

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Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films. —Bong Joon-ho’s Golden Globe acceptance speech. On May 25, 2019,...

Neeson vs. wolf

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The title 8 Million Ways to Die was already taken, so The Grey had to settle for The Grey, named for the plus-size wolves waging war on the desperate human survivors of an Alaskan wilderness plane crash. Tough situation. Frostbite. Wolf bite. Drowning. Falling from ...

The Medicine

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The sages call it by many names: yagé, ambiwaska, aioasca, but most know it as ayahuasca: a hallucinogenic brew drunk during a spiritual ceremony....

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ANTARCTICA: A YEAR ON ICE...

Fun with Catholics and Communism

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The funniest scene in Hail, Caesar! is a microcosm of the film’s overall genius. Foppish British director Laurence Laurentz (Ralph Fiennes) tries to get...

‘Keanu’ is bloated ‘Key & Peele,’ for better or worse

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You either find it unbearably funny that a suburban dad named Clarence finds himself in a strip club called HPV surrounded by hardcore gangsters...