Out in Theaters: ‘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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Out in Theaters: ‘EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!’
In the pantheon of Richard Linklater’s accomplished filmography, Everybody Wants Some is a relative softball, but even his minor work is essential viewing. A laid-back daydream of primetime golden years…
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Out in Theaters: ‘MIDNIGHT SPECIAL’
Jeff Nichols’ ‘Midnight Special’ feels like some recently discovered 80's B-movie. Purring with metaphysical musings and its own cryptic internal mythology, the sci-fi chase movie asks more questions than it…
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Blu-Ray Review: ‘THE HATEFUL EIGHT’
Synopsis: “While racing toward the town of Red Rock in post-Civil War Wyoming, bounty hunter John “The Hangman” Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh) encounter another bounty hunter (Samuel L. Jackson) and a man who claims to be a sheriff. Hoping to find shelter from a blizzard, the group travels to...
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Out In Theaters: ‘KRISHA’
Backed by a spine-tingling score, 'Krisha' is a powerful journey through the dingy bowels of addiction and family secrets. Krisha Fairchild is masterful in a breakout role for the ages…
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Out in Theaters: ‘BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE’
The gangbang of superhero team-ups, Zack Synder's 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice' is 155 minutes of darkness and smashing. While Batfleck proves the Caped Crusader has reason to exist…
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SXSW ’16 Review: ‘TRANSPECOS’
Like a lens flare cast from No Country For Old Men or an arresting never-before-seen side plot from Breaking Bad, Transpecos sets us on the belt buckle region of the Mexican-American border. In a diminutive shanty of a migra outpost – in essence, a tollbooth and boom barrier – three glorified crossing guards witness hell...
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SXSW ’16 Review: ‘IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE’
If you had told me that John Travolta would comeback from his recent Academy Award persona butchery (2014’s “Adele Dazeem”, 2015’s repulsively awkward Scar-Jo sneak-a-kiss) by playing a sand-blasted moral compass in a Ti West Western (a Western, it must be noted, that is of the genre through and through, absent of the horror flair...
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SXSW ’16 Review: ‘MY BLIND BROTHER’
In Sophie Goodhart‘s intentionally lackadaisical comedy My Blind Brother, Nick Kroll sharpens his post-television presence as unambitious deadbeat Bill whose doomed purpose in life is to be a seeing-eye underdog for his egotistical handicapable brother Robbie (Adam Scott). Complications arise when Bill and Robbie have eyes, er feelings, for the same girl, the spirited, wanna-be-do-gooder...
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SXSW ’16 Review: ‘HUSH’
To start with a bit of housekeeping, Hush joined the critically acclaimed Iranian Sundance debut Under the Shadow when it was swept up by preeminent streaming service Netflix before it was ever screened in front of an audience. Adding to their growing stockade of boutique horror films, Netflix has queued up the Mike Flanagan-directed thriller...