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Big Screen Movie Reviews
As fall comes in, the stars come out
Three three-star new movie releases this week, including Golden Job and I Am Not a Witch
Pick of the Litter is the pick of the litter
Plus other new movie releases, including The Predator and The Apparition
This seems to be shaping up as the Year of the Dog in cinema, what with Alpha, AXL, Dog Days, and now the delightful documentary Pick of the Litter. After that, you may end up ...
Nun better? Nun worse.
But The Nun will still probably top the rest of this week's new movie releases
A long time ago, a friend gave me a copy of Gerald Brittle's The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren, and warned me not to read it before going to sleep. I ...
On your Marks...
...supercritic Scott tackles movie releases both old and new
September doesn't start until tomorrow, and Fall's not for another three weeks, but Scott Marks has shaken off the torpor brought on by a slew of summer snoozefests and lept back into the fray like ...
Boyz in the hoods
Screenwriter Kevin Willmott talks BlacKkKlansman
So impressed was Spike Lee by Kevin Willmott’s debut feature, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America that as soon as he saw the picture's Sundance premiere, he offered to act as the film’s presenter. Spike ...
Meet Eighth Grade's star pupils this Saturday
Elsie Fisher and Emily Robinson in town for Q&As
As if an opportunity to relive the last hellish week of grade school weren't enough, the two star students of Eighth Grade will be in town this weekend to celebrate the film's opening. If your ...
Swedish fish and the Oregon Trail
Normally, the lead photo art corresponds with the lead review, but protocol be damned when you hook a whopper like this: a candid shot of Ingmar Bergman posing with Spielberg’s toy shark, Bruce. To commemorate ...
The Digital Gym, five years in
Quick: what was the first film to put the Media Arts Center’s Digital Gym on the map? Having to answer that question produced the first of two blushes from the organization’s founding father and guiding ...
Women in Hollywood
Ocean's 8, Hereditary and more "women's pictures" among this week's new movie releases
Well, director Colin Treverrow (Safety Not Guaranteed, Jurassic World, and um, The Book of Henry) went and gave a barn-burner of an interview to the good people at Uproxx that should have folks talking about ...
Romance on the rocks
Maybe the On Chesil Beach kids should have stayed at the Carlyle, and other new movie releases
Love is hard. Sometimes, it's going well, and the past intrudes in unexpected ways. Sometimes, it's going well, and you hit an unexpected squall. Sometimes, it's going well, and someone murders your wife and all ...
Johnny Knoxville, helicopter parent
"When they say something naughty, I’m laughing harder than anyone. But when it comes to their safety, I get really squirrely."
When a newscaster comes on the radio to report on a robbery foiled by an officer on duty, my mind instantly leaps to an image of a cop standing in a pile of doody. Needless ...
Seats and screens and sci-fi spectaculars
A moviegoer's reserved behavior
As a fan of both the Saw franchise and the two big houses at the Reading Grossmont, I reasoned that there was no better multiplex in the country to watch an opening-day showing of Jigsaw. ...
"You're tearing me apart!"
James Dean has nothing on Ryan Reynolds in this week's new movie releases, including Deadpool 2 and The Desert Bride
I've been on about this before, but one of the things that make so many superhero punch-ups so deadly dull is the Toughness Inconsistency Index, which states that the amount of punishment a hero can ...
