For Tashi, tennis is not love: Love is tennis. When forced to choose between a man-child who needs to be held until he falls asleep and a trust fund baby looking for a backseat romp and a place to shower, is it any wonder she chooses the sport of kings? The film is about as […]
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We also talk about how clubs are the place where people learn civic skills. It’s associations where we practice how to run a meeting, give a speech, plan an event, organize a protest, resolve tensions, recruit collaborators, spread ideas, build bridges, and gather and wield power. There have been many explanations for the broad atomizing […]
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“As sales pitches go”, this film’s title is “far from a winner”, said Robbie Collin in The Telegraph: please could I have a ticket “for an hour-and-a-half of suicidal ideation”, and a raspberry and blackcurrant Tango Ice Blast? But “Sometimes I Think About Dying” “turns out to be something of a mis-sell”, for beneath its […]
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Oh pop culture: our shining light in bleak times, the butter to our daily bread, the ultimate distraction as the world literally burns all around us. Because of this central role in the fabric of our rapidly collapsing society, it’s covered by just about everyon and, naturally, this makes most of it shitty, regurgitated, celebrity […]
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Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley and Pierce Brosnan have snapped up three of the four leading roles in the big-screen adaptation of “The Thursday Murder Club”, Richard Osman has confirmed. The author and TV presenter, whose book is “the fastest-selling adult crime debut in recorded history”, teased the big reveal on Xlast week, said The Guardian. […]
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Director Alex Garland is back in theaters with “Civil War,” a film depicting a hypothetical second American Civil War. The film has already seen success at the box office, garnering $25.7 million in its debut to mark A24’s biggest-ever opening weekend. “Civil War” sees a United States that has devolved into full-blown armed conflict. In […]
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If I named my favorite filmmakers, I would probably come quickly to Alex Garland. That’s odd, because before seeing his latest, “Civil War,” I had only seen two of his films, and only really liked one of them. “Ex Machina” is a film I fell in love with when I dragged my high school friends […]
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The real enemy the film targets—more so than any of the war’s factions or their real-world inspirations—is polarization. Here again, Garland has laid out his message explicitly. “Left and right are ideological arguments about how to run a state,” he said at SXSW. “You try one, and if that doesn’t work out, you vote it […]
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“All hail Dev Patel,” said Kevin Maher in The Times. The 33-year-old Slumdog Millionaire star has made his directorial debut “with an audacious action flick” set in contemporary India. In the fictional city of Yatana, “mobsters rule” and “venal politicians thrive”, but there is hope to be found in the “murderously effective hands” of a […]
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This month, “Problemista” hit movie theaters. Maybe you have heard of it; maybe you have not. It is the story of Alejandro, a Salvadoran immigrant to the United States who dreams of being a toy designer for Hasbro. If only the pesky U.S. immigration system and the travails of New York City were not constantly […]
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Critics are accusing filmmakers of cashing in on Amy Winehouse with a new biopic that comes just 13 years after her death from alcohol-poisoning at the age of 27. Named after the title track of her 2007 album, “Back to Black” stars Marisa Abela as Winehouse and is expected to chronicle the singer-songwriter’s rise to […]
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A short documentary about local resident George Faust will premiere April 11 at the Homer Theatre. “My Third Act,” produced by Affinity Films, is about Faust’s career performing in circus arts in various places around Alaska and how his diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease at age 70 ended the physical part of his career. His circus […]
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