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Piercing by Hope Madden There’s a lot that shouldn’t be said about Piercing, Nicolas Pesce’s follow up to his glorious 2016 horror, Eyes of My Mother. Because the film’s tension…read more →
Archive For January, 2019
Case Closed
Destroyer by George Wolf Nicole Kidman got no Oscar love this year, which gives you some clue as to how many great performances we saw from women in 2018. Her…read more →
Aging Gracefully
They Shall Not Grow Old by Hope Madden For those of us who haven’t experienced it, war is nearly impossible to fathom: the horror, terror, inhumanity and chaos of it.…read more →
Concrete Jungle
Minding the Gap by George Wolf The legendary inscription carved into Woody Guthrie’s guitar read, “This machine kills fascists.” In the Oscar-nominated documentary Minding the Gap, a Sharpie-scrawled proclamation on a…read more →
Polish Romance
Cold War by Hope Madden Set against shifting political and musical environments and spanning at least four countries and 15 years, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War is a gorgeous and mournful…read more →
I Don’t Want to Go Out—Week of January 28
Loads of movies to keep you company during this stupifying cold snap. A lot of them are pretty great. Here are the options, from best to worst: Suspiria Boy Erased…read more →
Crime Family
Shoplifters by George Wolf “Sometimes it’s better to choose your own family.” A softly nuanced testament to home being where the heart is (and the Palme d’or winner at Cannes),…read more →
Fright Club: Skeletons in the Closet 2019
It’s that time of year! The Academy celebrates the best work in the industry and we celebrate the early, mainly terrible work of those same nominees. It’s Skeletons in the…read more →
Screening Room: Kid Who Would Be King, Stan & Ollie, Serenity and More
Old Hollywood is a theme this week, with head scratchers and surprise gems in the mix. Join us as we talk about Stan & Ollie, The Kid Who Would Be…read more →
Hold On to Your Butts
Genesis 2.0 by George Wolf Back before I’d even seen the original Jurassic Park I read up on the premise. I’m no scientist but I clearly remember thinking, “Uh, that sounds plausible.”…read more →