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THE INSTIGATORS Review: Bungling Criminals in Supposed Comedy
Matt Damon and Casey Affleck star in Doug Liman's knockabout action comedy about a bungled robbery, featuring an all-star supporting cast and a lot of smashed vehicles.
Giveaway: Win a Copy of THE WATER MAN on Blu-ray
David Oyelowo's feature film debut The Water Man will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 17th. The Water Man stars David Oyelowo, Rosario Dawson, Lonnie Chavis, Amiah Miller, Alfred Molina, and Maria Bello. ScreenAnarchy has four Blu-rays...
Blu-ray Review: Mike Leigh's MEANTIME, A Well-Timed Criterion Release
One of many, many, many films I'd never heard of before Criterion sought to add it to their numbers (number 890 in this case), Mike Leigh's 1984 TV movie Meantime comes across as an unintentional political statement. It pulls us...
Review: FEUD: BETTE AND JOAN, A Tale of Melancholy
A cloud of melancholy hangs over the eight episodes that comprise Feud: Bette and Joan, a limited series that has completed its run on U.S. cable network FX. Nostalgia creeps in at the edges and occasionally threatens to overwhelm the...
Review: Strange Magic, an underrated animated musical from Lucasfilm
Strange Magic was supposed to be George Lucas’ swansong, his final big budget motion picture —as a producer, mind you, not director— before his inevitable retirement from the movie business. Alas, that didn’t quite happen. Strange Magic was released in...
The Many Faces Of Alfred Molina
This week sees the North American premiere of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, co-directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, and starring Tina Fey as a journalist in Afghanistan. In his review, Peter Martin says the film is "difficult to categorize yet...
Review: WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT Throws A Wrench Into Military Expectations
Like its title, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot doesn't make much sense at first. Employing a common narrative device, the movie begins during a rowdy dance party in Afghanistan in 2006. As bombs explode outside, the party-goers reveal themselves to be hard-working...
Review: LOVE IS STRANGE, A Modest And Delicate Tale
Before watching the latest movie by writer/director Ira Sachs, I realized that I'd never seen any of his previous work. After watching Love Is Strange, however, I resolved to see everything he's ever made. My initial impression was that Love...
Sundance Speed Dating with... LOVE IS STRANGE Writer/Director Ira Sachs
Ira Sachs has been bringing queer cinema to the screens since 1996, making him one of the few pioneers who have challenged the status quo of Hollywood's (and the indie world, for that matter) white, hetero-dominant stories. For this year's...
Review: THE TRUTH ABOUT EMANUEL Floats To The Surface
The sophomore film by writer/director Francesca Gregorini, following 2009's Tanner Hall, revolves around Emanuel (Kaya Scodelario), a precocious high school girl who carries on her shoulders the self-placed burden of her mother's childbirth death. For Emanuel, life is a struggle...