Poster and pics for Keanu Reeves’s Man of Tai Chi
It’s been a little while since we’ve heard anything about Keanu Reeves’s directorial debut, Man of Tai Chi. Last report we had featured ...
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Reading Roger Ebert: The Great Movies
Roger Ebert would have turned 71 this month. His passing has left a hole in the film critic community, which doesn’t seem to ...
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Reading Roger Ebert: The Great Movies II
The field opens up a bit in Roger Ebert’s The Great Movies II. There’s more diversity to the picks and a wider (and welcome) ...
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Reading Roger Ebert: Life Itself – A Memoir
[Reading Roger Ebert is Flixist’s summer reading project. Join us as we pay tribute to the late great film critic by ...
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Tribeca Review: Mobius
There’s a moment in Möbius where I expected a turn toward high-stakes adventure and evasion. As in any story of spies and espionage, ...
UK stage adaptation of Princess Mononoke met with praise
You may remember that there was a planned UK stage adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke. Whole Hog, the theater company responsible for ...
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Tribeca Review: Adult World
In my blurb review for Neil Jordan’s vampire film Byzantium, my main gripe had a lot to do with the age of the ...
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Review: Kill Team
The war in Afghanistan is the longest military conflict in which the United States has been involved. The operation is nowhere near as ...
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Review: Dark Touch
There were so many varying opinions at the screening of Dark Touch I went to. Flixist’s pal Steve over at Unseen Films is ...
First images from Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Prodigious Spivet
I really loved Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s and Marc Caro’s films in high school and college, wearing down my VHS copies of Delicatessen and The ...
Review: Let the Fire Burn
In 1985 there was a tragic stand-off between the extremist Africa-American group MOVE and the city of Philadelphia. At the end, 11 members ...
New Releases, week of 4/13/13: Historical Hot Dog Edition
It’s another slow week on the DVD/Blu-ray release front. The most high-profile title is the disappointing Hyde Park on Hudson, which features Bill ...