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Detroiter Steve Press loves movies. In particular, he loves film noir. Here, he tells us why… *** MY LIFE: BASED ON A TRUE STORY (Or How I Got Into Film Noir) by Steve Press I’m probably older than most of you. Carbon dating says I was born in […]
“I’m Irish. Racism is part of me culture.” So says the police officer of the title, Sgt. Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson). The Guard crashes right into stereotypes galore, racial and otherwise. To begin with, Sgt. Boyle is ignorant, he’s lazy, he only enforces laws when he feels like it, […]
Cabin in the Woods is one of those movies that you want to tell your friends about but can’t for fear of giving away too much. In cases like this I usually say, “Trust me. Just go see it.” But that really doesn’t make for a good movie […]
Originally posted on Paula's Cinema Club:
The envelope please… The winners, the losers, the snubs, the back stories, the gossip, the players, the games…this time it’s all about Oscar! We’re back! Myself, Kellee (@IrishJayhawk66) of Outspoken and Freckled, and Aurora (@CitizenScreen) of Once Upon a Screen are…
I wrote this review when John Carter first came out. I still feel the same way about this future-cult classic. I saw John Carter yesterday and I really enjoyed it. The movie, based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars (1912), balances action and world building better […]
I wrote this post on the literary source of the movie John Carter before it came out. In retrospect, it has more meaning now since many moviegoers complained that John Carter was just a re-hash of other sci-fi movies - especially Avatar. In a way, it’s the other […]
Many great movies came out in 2012 – The Dark Knight Rises, Looper, Argo, Django Unchained, Zero Dark Thirty, to list some of our favorites. But there were many excellent films that slipped by rather quietly. We decided that we needed another chance to see some of the […]
While many movie versions of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol seek to follow the novel closely and recreate a slice of early Victorian England, Scrooged (1988) is set in the 1980s and speaks directly to that era. The hippies of the Summer of Love had become the Thirtysomething […]
Bad Santa (2003, 91 min.) is very naughty, but it isn’t bad. While it treads the well-worn path of pointing out the commercialization of Christmas and the hypocrisy of many who celebrate it, Bad Santa adds a freshness to the seasonal critique genre. For those who haven’t seen […]
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HELD OVER
The End of the Tour
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Mistress America
Chloe & Theo
STARTING Friday, Sept. 11
Guidance
Monday, Sept. 14 ONLY
THE ORBIT MAGAZINE ANTHOLOGY signing and screening PLUS Q & A
Tuesday, Sept. 15 ONLY
Enough to Live On: The Arts of the WPA plus Q & A with filmmakers
Starting Friday, Sept. 18
Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery
Wednesday, Sept. 23 ONLY
Arcade Fire: The Reflektor Tapes
