Marvel’s Ant Caper Is Fast and Fun
Sometimes it pays off big to make a few small, albeit risky departures from convention. Take the case of Marvel …
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Mr. Holmes
I can’t say I’ve made the leap back to Arthur Conan Doyle’s celebrated detective. My recent forays into the literary …
Testament of Youth
Expertly merging the lofty romantic notions we’ve come to expect from stories of lovers blown apart by the winds of …
Trainwreck
Amy Schumer is on the fastest of fast tracks. The successful stand-up comedienne made the transition from the stage of …
Wandering Aimlessly Inside Blumhouse’s ‘Gallows’
Since filmmaking collaborators Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing teamed up back in 2011 on Kid HULK — a four-minute short …
Aloft
Peruvian writer-director Claudia Llosa (The Milk of Sorrow) takes audiences on a journey into the seemingly barren spiritual and emotional …
Amy
The line, “I ain’t got the time, and if my daddy thinks I’m fine …” from Amy Winehouse’s breakthrough single, …
Thomas Mann: From ‘Project X’ to ‘The Dying Girl’
Weaned on ludicrous white-male teen fantasies like Risky Business and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (the whole John Hughes oeuvre, really), …
Manglehorn
Part of an Al Pacino double-feature (along with Barry Levinson’s adaptation of Philip Roth’s The Humbling) at last year’s Toronto …
Magic Mike XXL
Curiosity dominated the critical conversation when Academy Award-winning renaissance man Steven Soderbergh teamed up with Channing Tatum, the lantern-jawed heartthrob …
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