Out in Theaters: ‘BLACK PANTHER’
‘Black Panther’ is a historic landmark of representation and inclusion on the big screen and has many elements to celebrate, most notably its kick-ass cast and many production marvels. The…
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Sundance ’18 Review: ‘TIME SHARE’
Hell is a timeshare. A designated parcel of property allocated to your family for one immobile week each year. A curated escape, one characterized by pool floaties, crawfish-colored sunburns and frozen cocktails melting in plastic hurricane cups, that lives in a state of semi-stasis. There’s a kind of “Twilight Zone” quality to the whole notion...
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2017 Silver Screen Riot Awards
With the announcement of the Academy Awards nominees, we’re finally in the race to the finale of this year’s award’s seasons. Seeing that Mr. Oscar tends to get it wrong so much of the time (although this year’s nominees were fairly great across the board), we have an annual tradition of issuing our own awards...
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Out in Theaters: ’12 STRONG’
A glossy war propaganda movie trojan horsed as a hero’s journey, ’12 Strong’ is *almost* good but never quite manages to unseat its jingostic tendencies, galloping to mediocrity on the…
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Out in Theaters: ‘PHANTOM THREAD’
A beautiful and thought-provoking slice of cinematic perfection, ‘Phantom Thread’ is just aces across the board. Smart, rebellious, sneakily funny, and strangely romantic, performed with the measured gusto of those…
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Out in Theaters: ‘THE COMMUTER’
What you see is what you get with ‘The Commuter’, the latest in wash-rinse-repeat Liam Neeson in a vehicle action-thrillers. A silly script, lame supporting characters and a businesslike performance…
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50 Most Anticipated Movies of 2018
Ahhh 2018. A year of promise. Of renewed hope. Of unlimited possibility. I advise you do your best to not pay attention to the commander in chief’s tweets and bury your hand in the collective sand that is an unhealthy obsession with movies. Tis the very best medicine and nothing gets me more jazzed about...
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Worst 10 Movies of 2017
This time of year we’re usually busy piling praise on the best movies of the year. And for good reason. There’s a ton to celebrate. If push came to shove, I could crank out a list of 100 movies that I loved this year including everything from critical darling The Florida Project down to cinematic popcorn...
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Out in Theaters: ‘HOSTILES’
‘Hostiles’ is a putrid Western that’s both offensively bland and boring as sin, that seems to think it’s saying something important by claiming that “not all Native Americans are terrible”…
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Out in Theaters: ‘ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD’
Ridley Scott’s ‘All the Money in the World’ will probably be remembered most for replacing Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer at the last minute - and for good reason. It’s…