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May 14, 2024
‘Evil Does Not Exist’ Gets Back to Nature
In a Japanese mountain community not far from Tokyo, a quiet, unassuming handyperson named Takumi (played by Omika Hitoshi) lives with his eight-year-old daughter,...
Apr 16, 2024
Film Review: ‘Civil War’
Writer-director Alex Garland faces a tricky dilemma in shaping his new dystopian actioner, Civil War. Just how true to real life does it need...
Apr 9, 2024
Film Review: ‘Kim’s Video’
The late, lamented video store culture and its fanatics always make good copy for whimsical news coverage. Even the most hidebound, no-nonsense media outlet...
Mar 19, 2024
Film Review: ‘Carol Doda Topless at the Condor’
Just when it seems that San Francisco’s dope, sex and rock ’n’ roll scene in the 1960s has been covered from every conceivable angle,...
Mar 12, 2024
Film Review: ‘The American Society of Magical Negroes’
Consider The American Society of Magical Negroes a live-wire conversation-starter of a movie title that automatically opens up a pertinent social issue discussion.
Writer-director Koby...
Mar 5, 2024
Film Review: ‘Cabrini’ as Lady Liberty
Aside from specialty items by religious film producers, it’s unusual for general audiences to find major releases that concern themselves with spiritual matters and...
Feb 27, 2024
Film Review: ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ Goes Nowhere
A few questions pop up about Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls.
The film has writing problems. As cobbled together by veteran producer-director-writer Coen (Fargo, The Big...
Jan 16, 2024
Noir City 21: A Cinematic Journey into the Depths of Film Noir
Noir City 21, an annual film noir festival hosted by the Film Noir Foundation, features 12 double features of English and foreign-language noirs from the 1940s-'60s, including rare titles such as "Without Pity" and "Cairo Station."