SXSW ’16 Review: ‘DEMOLITION’
Led by soaring performances from Gyllenhaal and Watts and an emotionally exploratory script from Bryan Sipe, 'Demolition' is an oddball destructo-drama that measures the invoice of grief against the constructs…
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SXSW ’16 Review: ‘DON’T BREATHE’
Let me be clear, you probably can’t handle Don’t Breathe. Hitchcockian in concept and French New Wave in execution, the batshit bonkers new horror film from Fede Alvarez is a sanguine-stained guillotine of heinous intensity. The Uruguayan director has issued French extremity an American passport, inviting a true-to-form, heart-stopping gang bang of insane tension to...
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SXSW ’16 Review: ‘TEENAGE COCKTAIL’
When high school student Annie heads to a new school, she finds herself surrounded by hostile faces. And needle-in-the-haystack Jules. The two attractive outsiders immediately strike up a kinship and a secret flame broils, leading them down forbidden passageways of mutual lust and peddled cajolery.
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SXSW ’16 Review: ‘EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!’
There’s a moment in Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some where four collegiate athletes hover around an overstuffed bong, listening to the psychedelic crackle of Led Zeppelin, competing to see who can take the biggest bong rip. It’s an indisputably Linklater moment, one that speaks to the essence of the Austin filmmaker’s disco baseball comedy that...
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Out in Theaters: ’10 CLOVERFIELD LANE’
Bizarre by traditional sequel standards, '10 Cloverfield Lane' is nonetheless an immaculate work of genre craftsmanship, a bustling coup de grace of wit, intensity and phenomenal performances with John Goodman…
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Out In Theaters: ‘KNIGHT OF CUPS’
A pretentious visual collage that panders to art-house patrons as much as it rejects traditional constructs of entertainment, 'Knight of Cups' is in desperate need of a plot and consequently…
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Official 2016 Oscar Predictions
When discussing 2015 and its ilk of Oscar wannabes, most rallied around a similar sentiment: what an odd and unpredictable year for awards. At one point or another, as many as five of the eight Best Picture nominees (The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, Room, Spotlight, The Revenant)...
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Out in Theaters: ‘EDDIE THE EAGLE’
From a birds eye view, there’s not a ton of novelty to 'Eddie the Eagle'’s underdog sports narrative but refreshing individual moments and outlandish characters make it an experience worth…
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Out in Theaters: ‘TRIPLE 9’
'Triple 9' honors the esteemed tradition of American crime films, tipping its hat hither and thither to the greats that preceded it, creating a circus of variably intriguing characters to…
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Out in Theaters: ‘THE WITCH’
When the family snaps under the pressure of internal and external presses, it’s anyone’s game and you’ll want to behold the result. The fact that The Witch is up for…