Be sure to stop by the concession stand and stock up on liquids before sitting down to watch Rupert Wyatt’s anachronistic swords-and-sandals epic set, as the opening graphics inform us, 1,500 years ago in Arabia. […]
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Here’s a fun fact for trivia buffs. The 1954 animated film version of George Orwell’s classic 1945 novella Animal Farm was funded and supervised by the CIA as part of their anti-Communist propaganda campaign. It […]
In the publicity for their movie, the creators of the new Faces of Death make all sorts of claims about how their film explores such things as our growing desensitization to violence, whether or not […]
As with so many cinematic adaptations of video games, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie doesn’t leave you time to catch your breath. The operative word for this sequel to 2023’s smash hit The Super Mario […]
The intersection between Black Lives Matter and social media is explored to powerful effect in Jennifer Holness and Sidney Fussell’s documentary, receiving its world premiere at SXSW. While it concentrates on two cases in particular, […]
In case you’re wondering about the title of the new feature comedy receiving its world premiere at SXSW, be advised that The Dress Up Gang is an alt-comedy troupe that has attracted a following for […]
Too much cinematic quirkiness tends to bring out the Lou Grant in me. To jog your memory, when Ed Asner’s character met Mary Tyler Moore for the first time on her classic sitcom, he told […]
It’s not surprising that the ads for Reminders of Him remind us that the film comes “from the best-selling author of It Ends With Us and Regretting You.” That author is Colleen Hoover, who has […]