Out in Theaters: ‘CRIMSON PEAK’
‘Crimson Peak’ is a worthy Gothic yarn from Guillermo del Toro, abundantly rich in dreary atmospherics and made great by its two deliciously playful villains.
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Out in Theaters: ‘STEVE JOBS’
A purebred masterclass in filmmaking, 'Steve Jobs' brings Aaron Sorkin, Danny Boyle and Michael Fassbender together to tell a misanthropic biography brimming with life, humming with energy and ablaze with…
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Out in Theaters: ‘BRIDGE OF SPIES’
Steven Spielberg has an inimitable way of turning backroom negotiations into flashes of high tension and there’s no better example of this than 'Bridge of Spies'. It’s the brand of…
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SOUTH PARK “You’re Not Yelping” Recap
This week on South Park: Having successfully lured the socially conscious Whole Foods franchise to their PC mountain town, the residents of South Park are now enjoying a wave of new restaurants that the superbly marketed supermarket has attracted to the Historic Shi Tpa Town. The influx of eateries has brought out the inner food...
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THE LEFTOVERS Season 2 Episode 2 “A Matter of Geography” Review
Kevin Sr. (Scott Glenn) and Patti (Ann Dowd) return, in a sense, from a departure—Kevin Sr. from the psych ward, and Patti, though retrospectively, from the dead. Does this suggest that the departed will someday return? Did they even really leave to begin with? As Season 2 begins to explore the reason of the departure,...
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Out in Theaters: ‘THE FORBIDDEN ROOM’
Foster Wallace again: “Lynch’s movies are about images and stories that are in his head and that he wants to see made external and complexly ‘real.’ His loyalties are fierce…
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Out in Theaters: ‘THE FINAL GIRLS’
'The Final Girls’ does for teen horror slashers what Cabin in the Woods did for the monster genre; it’s an uproariously meta romp that’s easily one of the best PG-13…
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL, Episode 1: “CHECKING IN”
Here’s the thing about camp today: pure examples of it are extremely rare. First of all, we know too much; Sontag’s “Notes on Camp” was published in 1964 and has been assigned in humanities courses at liberal arts colleges ever since, so the possibility for an uncritical reception of a “new” camp object is fairly...
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Out in Theaters: ‘PAN’
'Pan' manages to hit more highs and lows than most films (family-friendly or otherwise) but is ultimately ravaged by its narrative senselessness and visual apathy. Though Hugh Jackman has fun…
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SOUTH PARK “The City Part of Town” Recap
Last week on South Park: Mr. Garrison is busy dropping truth bombs across America but his quest for the White House isn’t resonating well with some sects of society, specifically those with an 8th grade education or higher. Jimmy Fallon is directing jokes of a similar nature at the good people of South Park, as...