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11-year-old Kevin (Kal-El Tuck), a history buff, is a loner. At school, he’s the last one picked for their sports team. At home, his parents and younger sister Saffron (Kiera…
11-year-old Kevin (Kal-El Tuck), a history buff, is a loner. At school, he’s the last one picked for their sports team. At home, his parents and younger sister Saffron (Kiera…
“Harvest” More than a decade ago, one of the hot regional film movements was the Greek Weird Wave, whose most famous member was Yorgos Lanthimos, who went on to worldwide…
The two-hander is an elegant structure for a lower-budget effort: Just plop two characters together, often in a single location, and let the actors’ performances and the innate tension of…
At the same time, the film maintains the loose-verging-on-chaotic, sketch comedy-derived sensibility that links it to slapstick from the early sound era of motion pictures. Wolverine and Logan are nigh-invulnerable…
Ramsey and Hunter’s conflicting philosophies are put to the ultimate test under the direst possible circumstances. They’re already on high alert thanks to a Russian separatist group that has taken…
The fest, which opened on July 18th this year and runs through August 4th, is a treasure trove of the year’s most out-of-the-way genre works. Japanese and Korean thrillers aplenty,…
Truth is, “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” was commercially successful but not a big-enough smash to justify the studio continuing in that specific direction for future films. (Plus, it cannot be overstated…
Maybe we’re not supposed to think that the verbal combatants standing at those lecterns are as profound as they think they are? That’s a more charitable reading. Another is that…
Of course, morally gray areas are appropriate for the story of Lou Pearlman, a man who made pop stars in the ‘90s and ‘00s in a way that really changed…
Elijah Wood: For me, the biggest challenge with Strawn was . There are a couple of moments in the film where specific magic tricks give you a sense of his…