Forky: a life on film
After decades of service, the three-pronged plasticware gets a shot at stardom
Scott Marks 12:30 p.m., July 26
New Releases
Movie Reviews
Hola Mexico Film Festival Tour! Three from Mexico
At the Digital Gym from October 11–17
Without much in the way of new releases available for review, it seems a good time to draw attention to the Reader’s weekly Festivals column, which highlights some of our city’s one-shot screenings and/or more ...
Takashi Miike’s First Love: Why we fight
A bit less self-conscious, a bit more humane
My friend shook his head. “It’s been a bad year for movies,” he said. “A couple of blockbusters, and what else?” Well, a few things, at least. My favorite for the year so far is ...
Renée Zellweger’s Judy Garland sings a sad song
Who among us wants to die with a bunch of nobodys?
Pick a celebrity biopic. Any celebrity biopic. Beyond the Sea? Okay. With the lighting just so — and the camera at a safe distance from its subject — a person could swear that it was ...
Film Events
Eight Out of Ten (Ocho de Cada Diez)Digital Gym CinemaWednesday, October 16, 2019, 10:30 p.m. |
The Good Girls (Las Niñas Bien)Digital Gym CinemaThursday, October 17, 2019, 10:25 p.m. |
The Exorcist at Rooftop Cinema ClubManchester Grand HyattSaturday, October 26, 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. |
The Blair Witch Project at Rooftop Cinema ClubManchester Grand HyattWednesday, October 30, 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. |
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Roger Corman at the Dollar Tree
Local live wire faves
This week’s trio of discs came to me from various sources, reliable or otherwise. — Scott Marks The Black String (2019) Sensing a local angle, PR rep Justin Cook saw to it that a copy ...
Movie Archives
The Addams Family
Black comedy for kids, specifically those too young to remember the mid-Sixties television sitcom of the same name. The pattern of inversions is simple to grasp -- the bouquet of rose stems with the blossoms snipped off, the children holding ...
Maleficent
"Let us tell an old tale anew, and let us see how well you know it," intones Maleficent (a waxen Angelina Jolie) at the outset of this botched Sleeping Beauty tweak-job. It's fine to tell old tales anew, and it's ...
Sid and Nancy
Rock-and-roll romance: British punker Sid Vicious (bassist of the Sex Pistols) and American junkie Nancy Spungen living and loving as if there's no tomorrow: and indeed there were not to be a lot of them; and near the end, as ...
