Out in Theaters: THE GALLOWS
The result? The Gallows is a dumb, bad movie, filled with dumb, bad characters deserving of every bit of punishment that comes their way. However, I can’t flunk the movie…
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Documentary Dossier: AMY
I knew next to nothing about Winehouse’s life and music before entering the theater, but emerged feeling as though I had known her through all her struggles. I could easily…
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TRUE DETECTIVE Season 2 Episode 3 Review “Maybe Tomorrow”
The Conway Twitty impersonator lip syncing “The Rose” deified by the David Lynchian purple blue nebula, may superficially seem like a cheap dressed up redneck mind-fuck, Lone-Star laced with LSD, as season two intentionally commits a slow suicide into the oblivious junkyard of one-hit wonders; not to mention the trippy and densely codified dialog between...
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Out in Theaters: THE SUICIDE THEORY
Additional redeeming features are spattered here and there. Mouzakis gives a highly commendable performance; his portrayal of Steven injects a necessary depth into a script otherwise lacking in momentum. However,…
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Out in Theaters: TERMINATOR: GENISYS
Further, the entire plot of Terminator: Thanks Jai Courtney is predicated on a twist to the original films' timeline and yet, incredibly, such an important piece of information is never…
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Out in Theaters: MAGIC MIKE XXL
This shortcoming is forgiven in the face of an engulfing wave of laugh-out loud eruptions, eye-boggling dance numbers and a crew of guys you pine to hang just one more…
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TRUE DETECTIVE Season 2 Episode 2 Review “Night Finds You”
The town of DaVinci looks like it’s day, but it’s really night–in other words, it was born in the darkness as it tries for the light. The first scene’s cold tint hangs over like the pallor of a corpse–literally, as Semyon’s (Vince Vaughn) introspection match cuts to Caspere’s melted eyes. Semyon’s abuse story isn’t just...
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Out in Theaters: TED 2
In order to drill home the point, know that Ted 2 is in fact a cinematic urinal cake; a patchwork of unfunny, hateful jokes bred with a razor thin attempt…
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Out in Theaters: CREEP
From his backlit framing to the long, empty, awkward silences that fill the air like smog, Brice plants all the seeds of doubt required to make his audience want to…
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Documentary Dossier: FRESH DRESSED
A commerce-drenched narrative of the rise and fall of “for us by us” brands (FUBU, Mecca, Ecko) in the second half strips the film of some of its momentum, as…