In the opening scene of Undine, a woman threatens to kill her lover if he leaves her. Thanks to the intensity of her delivery, we believe it. The woman is played by
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Dad movies are back, baby–the guns, the beards, the revenge. The dadsploitation genre is all the rage right now [see L.A. Weekly‘s review of Guy Ritchie&
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Do you remember Freddy Got Fingered? Think 2001, a TV trailer with sausages on strings and Tom Green mashing a keyboard, liltingly singing, Daddy would you like some
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Though the Turner Classic Movie (TCM) Film Festival usually offers a live in-person event component in Hollywood, it’s a full-on virtual affair again this year
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The Russo Brothers’ harrowing and hollow drug addiction drama, Cherry, utilizes the camera to re-create the mental effects of trauma and drug abuse. The movie
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As The Human Voice – Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s glorious new 30-minute film – opens, an unnamed woman (Tilda Swinton) steps onto a soundstage wearing
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In Hollywood, everything gets a sequel. As much as we whine about what’s being released these days, intellectual property rules because it’s easy to rema
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As cultural awakenings continue to play tug of war with public opinion- both old and new, the lines between sexism, objectification and misogyny have blurred, as hav
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Now streaming on Netflix, Emmett Malloy’s new documentary, Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell, is a hip-hop doc about the artist who created his own sound and becam
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The United States vs. Billie Holiday opens as gossip columnist, Reginald Lord Devine (Leslie Jordan) interviews jazz legend Billie Holiday (Andra Day) asking her ins
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This time last year, before COVID-19 turned the entertainment industry on its head, the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah was pretty much snow-blanketed show
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In Residue, the superb debut film from writer-director Merawi Gerima, Jay (Obinna Nwachukwu), a budding filmmaker who has returned to his Washington D.C. neighborhoo
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