Review: The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
My brother and I loved The Amazing Johnathan growing up. The stand-up comedian/magician specialized in oddball sleight of hand and strange props, and ...
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Review: The Farewell
There’s a brief prefatory note in Lulu Wang’s The Farewell that gives viewers an idea of what to expect: “Based on an actual ...
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Review: Mary Magdalene
There seems to be a common trend with a lot of biblical films. They have extreme reverence for their source material but tend ...
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Review: Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
Legendary Wing Chun practitioner Ip Man is famous for popularizing the Wing Chun style the world over and for having taught Bruce Lee, ...
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Review: Arrested Development – Season Five Part Two
When Netflix originally announced that it would be reviving Arrested Development for a fourth season, fans were ecstatic. The irreverent and off-beat comedy ...
SXSW Review: Show Me The Picture: The Jim Marshall Story
For whatever reason, this SXSW was my year of documentaries. Maybe it’s because I like the journalistic element of them, and maybe it’s ...
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SXSW Review: Olympic Dreams
Maybe it’s in the name, but this is a dream of a film. To see a film completely sold out at the end ...
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SXSW Review: Strange Negotiations
Strange Negotiations was a deeply personal and heartfelt documentary, an essay film exploring one man’s crisis of faith. Named after the eponymous album ...
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SXSW Review: Pig Hag
Pig Hag is one of the best, most truthful films I’ve seen this festival. I don’t say that flippantly — there have been ...
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SXSW Review: Bluebird
To anyone who’s a fan of country music, the Bluebird Cafe, Nashville, is the holy grail, a place of pilgrimage and wonder. People ...
Review: Triple Threat
There’s an unspoken rule in cinema that team-up films are typically bad. While Marvel seems to have bucked that trend, other studios still ...
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SXSW Review: La Mala Noche
La Mala Noche is an under-the-radar narrative premiering at SXSW this year, and with its heavy subject matter it’s easy to see why ...