Director Sean Baker’s exhilarating dark comedy is about an unlovable loser and washed-up porn star Mikey Saber (Simon Rex), who shows up broke and beaten-up back in his Texas hometown looking for a place to crash with his ex-wife (excellent…
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It’s fall and The New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center is back, and not virtual (a word I’ve come to loathe). In the 70s every fall I would hitchhike to New York from Provincetown, Mass. with my tickets for…
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Heartbreaking documentary by Kristina Lindstrom and Kristian Petri about Bjorn Andresen, who won the part of Tadzio in Luchino Visconti’s 1971 Death in Venice. Visconti went on a world-wide search for the beautiful object of obsession for Dirk Bogarde’s Gustav…
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Japanese director Sion Sono has always pushed the envelope in his own crackpot way. One thinks back to Suicide Club with all those Japanese schoolgirls merrily leaping to their death in front of a train; or forever-growing killer hair in…
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In the new film No Man of God, Elijah Wood plays real-life FBI Special Agent Bill Hagmaier, who was a former guidance counselor recruited into the elite Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI. He is given the unenviable task of…
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Annette, the dazzling new film by Leos Carax (Holy Motors), now streaming on Amazon Prime, is about the tumultuous love affair between an edgy, stand-up comedian (Adam Driver) and a renowned opera singer (Marion Cotillard). It’s done as a crackpot…
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A fiendish, supremely suspenseful slice of bloody revenge is opening in Theaters and On Demand July 2. Megan Fox plays Emma, a woman conflicted about celebrating her anniversary with her controlling, attorney husband (Eoin Macken). He takes her to a…
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Devereux Milburn’s macabre, sublimely unsettling film is about a young couple on a camping trip- Sam, an aspiring actor (Sawyer Spielberg) and Rylie (Malin Barr), investigating, for her thesis, a blight on wheat that caused mutations and the death of…
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It’s bad enough being trapped in your apartment for a year, but self-imprisoned watching a bad movie really reminds you how horrible life can be. Now, to be honest, I saw a lot of terrific things through my television this…
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Well, I’m sure glad to see this year in the rear-view mirror. But I admit movies saved me through all this. Granted, none of them were seen in movie theaters, but if a movie is good it will grab and…
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