Movie Reviews & Stories
We tend to project ourselves onto art. We take a story as a
reflection of our own experiences, or we interject our own theories
about what an artist really means. Every English teacher does it,
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Movie Reviews & Stories
Never mind that in real life, Weather Underground
activists did not murder anyone in their anti-war radicalism of the
early 1970s. In Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep, they did.
As
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Danny Boyle’s Trance is a head trip that spins in on itself.
Movie Reviews & Stories
As best I can tell, Trance is the first
film—outside porn, maybe—to have a plot that hinges on a woman’s pubic
hair. Though the Goya painting that goes missing in the art-heist
thriller is
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Movie Reviews & Stories
This is the sort of movie that critics
were invented to despise: a crowd-pleasing, oafish, wildly implausible
pile of sentimental dreck. But just like its main character, a
French-Canadian meat-
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Movie Reviews & Stories
Jackie Robinson is an American legend: The first black
player to break Major League Baseball’s color barrier, he shouldered the
hopes of a generation, weathering a flurry of abuse to open the ga
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Brew Views
“Don’t be creepy, don’t be creepy, don’t be creepy,” the lovesick zombie in Warm Bodies begs
himself as he stares, slack-jawed, at the very blond, very alive object
of his affection. He�
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Movies & Television
Not only did Evil Dead screen after WW press deadlines, but it kept critic Jay Horton shaking all weekend long, unable to file his review until Monday afternoon.Critic’s Grade: CShould there be any doubt, we’re not speaking about The Evil Dead. Sam Raimi, godhead of the series and producer of this latest iteration (alongside old cohorts Bruce Campbell and Robert Tapert), must have thought about ...
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Movie Reviews & Stories
A brief synopsis of Norwegian folklore: Nature is scary as shit, and everything’s out to get you.
In a vast and frigid
nation still so afraid of wolves it almost eradicates them each year,
the
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Movie Reviews & Stories
The journey to create a film version of Jack Kerouac’s 1957 ode to the Beat Generation, On the Road, has
been a treacherous one. Over the years, Francis Ford Coppola, Gus Van
Sant and Joel Schum
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Brew Views
Like The Shining, The Dead Zone is
proof that films are much better off using Stephen King’s ideas as a
template rather than treating them as gospel. Make no mistake, 1983’s The Dead Zone is
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