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The Black Bear communal ranch in northern California was partially funded by rock stars who were guilted into ponying up the dough by a handful of enterprising hippies who accused them of "trading off our lifestyle." That kind of defiant idealism was a lofty place for the Black Bears to start, and Jonathan Berman's documentary Commune covers the founders' inevitable descent intoTHE GRUDGE - FILM
Like so many Japanese innovations, the late-'90s genre known as J-horror took its time reaching the West, but now seems poised to become part of the fabric of everyday life. The Ring began the cycle in 2002, bringing American crowds into a remake of what was, in Japan and much of Asia, already a long-running franchise of horror films about a cursed videotape. The Grudge tries to do ...AND GOD CREATED WOMAN Clearly viewing female sexuality as a force only marginally less dangerous than the hydrogen bomb, And God Created Woman is an awful film full of stilted dialogue, egregious sexism, and ugly racism. But as a depiction of post-war masculinity attempting to come to terms with a new breed of woman, it's a historic bit of pop-culturesociology.
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A gimmick is only a gimmick if it's in service of nothing but its own gimmickry. The big twist in Christopher Nolan's astonishing Memento–a thriller that unfolds in reverse chronological order–is that the gimmick suddenly melts away, revealing a deeply considered and profound statement about the slippery nature of memory and the human capacity for self-deception. So it only followsSAW - THE A.V. CLUB
They collect bones, dine on fresh brains, stitch together plus-size human skins, demonstrate the Seven Deadly Sins with grisly literalism, and delight in prodding existentially tortured detectives by leaving oblique clues at the crime scene. Yet no serial killer has ever been as gimmicky as the bogeyman in James Wan's uproariously idiotic thriller Saw, which plays like a cross between SevenGALAXY QUEST
It's been a strange couple of years for the Star Trek franchise. At least since the re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy in 1997, Trek's place in popular culture has seemed considerably less prominent, as two series left the air and the public's attention turned away from the principled humanism of Gene Roddenberry's creation and more toward the mythic vagaries of SUNDANCE WINNER NANCY TOYS WITH OUR SYMPATHY FOR A The “unlikable female protagonist” subgenre finds a worthy new entry in Nancy, the Sundance-winning feature debut of talented writer-director Christina Choe. In an emotionally ambiguous, formally restrained tale of intentionally mistaken identity, Nancy sets its title character up as a lost, lonely woman in an alienating world, then pushes the audience’s sympathy for her as far as it can go. IN THE UNNERVING SUN CHOKE, A SICK WOMAN SPREADS HER Sarah Hagan has had two memorably substantial roles in her career thus far—both on television, and both over a decade ago. She was the rigorously prim mathlete Millie on Freaks And Geeks, and played Amanda, one of the “potentials” in the final season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Since the early 2000s, Hagan’s mostly been relegated to guest shots and bit parts, but that should change FILM | THE A.V. CLUB 1. There’s a running gag about binge-watching Friends in the sweet, amiable, mildly subversive indie comedy Together Together. It’s not a knee-slapper, exactly—the film uses a ’90s primetime phenomenon that’s become a shorthand for basic pop culture taste as an easy way to bridge the generational gap between two people . FILM | THE A.V. CLUB Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. Advertisement Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Cruella coming to theaters and Disney+, we’re looking at some ofCOMMUNE - FILM
The Black Bear communal ranch in northern California was partially funded by rock stars who were guilted into ponying up the dough by a handful of enterprising hippies who accused them of "trading off our lifestyle." That kind of defiant idealism was a lofty place for the Black Bears to start, and Jonathan Berman's documentary Commune covers the founders' inevitable descent intoTHE GRUDGE - FILM
Like so many Japanese innovations, the late-'90s genre known as J-horror took its time reaching the West, but now seems poised to become part of the fabric of everyday life. The Ring began the cycle in 2002, bringing American crowds into a remake of what was, in Japan and much of Asia, already a long-running franchise of horror films about a cursed videotape. The Grudge tries to do ...AND GOD CREATED WOMAN Clearly viewing female sexuality as a force only marginally less dangerous than the hydrogen bomb, And God Created Woman is an awful film full of stilted dialogue, egregious sexism, and ugly racism. But as a depiction of post-war masculinity attempting to come to terms with a new breed of woman, it's a historic bit of pop-culturesociology.
INSOMNIA - FILM
A gimmick is only a gimmick if it's in service of nothing but its own gimmickry. The big twist in Christopher Nolan's astonishing Memento–a thriller that unfolds in reverse chronological order–is that the gimmick suddenly melts away, revealing a deeply considered and profound statement about the slippery nature of memory and the human capacity for self-deception. So it only followsSAW - THE A.V. CLUB
They collect bones, dine on fresh brains, stitch together plus-size human skins, demonstrate the Seven Deadly Sins with grisly literalism, and delight in prodding existentially tortured detectives by leaving oblique clues at the crime scene. Yet no serial killer has ever been as gimmicky as the bogeyman in James Wan's uproariously idiotic thriller Saw, which plays like a cross between SevenGALAXY QUEST
It's been a strange couple of years for the Star Trek franchise. At least since the re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy in 1997, Trek's place in popular culture has seemed considerably less prominent, as two series left the air and the public's attention turned away from the principled humanism of Gene Roddenberry's creation and more toward the mythic vagaries of SUNDANCE WINNER NANCY TOYS WITH OUR SYMPATHY FOR A The “unlikable female protagonist” subgenre finds a worthy new entry in Nancy, the Sundance-winning feature debut of talented writer-director Christina Choe. In an emotionally ambiguous, formally restrained tale of intentionally mistaken identity, Nancy sets its title character up as a lost, lonely woman in an alienating world, then pushes the audience’s sympathy for her as far as it can go. IN THE UNNERVING SUN CHOKE, A SICK WOMAN SPREADS HER Sarah Hagan has had two memorably substantial roles in her career thus far—both on television, and both over a decade ago. She was the rigorously prim mathlete Millie on Freaks And Geeks, and played Amanda, one of the “potentials” in the final season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Since the early 2000s, Hagan’s mostly been relegated to guest shots and bit parts, but that should change FILM | THE A.V. CLUB Night In Paradise brings a stylish, wearyingly grim South Korean crime epic to Netflix. Jason Shawhan. 9. Save. Two gangs, the Yang and Bukseong, have gathered for a summit to stem the hemorrhaging of goons from both. The negotiations, which will end some lives and save others, unfold across a table headed by Police Director Ma (ChaSeung-won).
FILM | THE A.V. CLUB 14. Save. Yesterday, the British Academy Of Film And Television Arts started holding its annual awards ceremony, the BAFTAs, with Sound Of Metal taking home the top prize of Best Sound (naturally, because “sound” is right there in the title). Much like a particularly contentious game of cricket, though, the BAFTAs actually go . FILM | THE A.V. CLUB Steven Seagal is a frequently accused sexual predator and all-around dumpster human. He also runs like a toddler who just pissed his pants in the local grocery story and is frantically searching for an adult to change his pull-up diapers. We’ve documented much of theSTAR TREK - FILM
Mothballed early this decade by a string of increasingly unpopular TV series and films, the venerable Star Trek series hasn’t so much been pulled out of storage with this new film as dusted off, broken down to its most basic parts, streamlined, and sent blazing off at an acute angle from its original course. Directed by J.J. Abrams—it’s his second feature directorial effort after helpingAIRPLANE! - FILM
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Finished right on time for the new millennium, Roy Andersson’s 2000 opus Songs From The Second Floor captured the apocalyptic mood of the world’s deepest pessimists with mordant black comedy and mind-blowing cinematic tableaux. Andersson’s attitude was so bleak—and the lumpen souls on display so pallid, dreary, and hopeless—that it manifested as gallows humor, his artful way of THE ASTONISHING DOCUMENTARY APOLLO 11 SHOOTS THE MOON Shutting down conspiracy theorists probably wasn’t high on director Todd Douglas Miller’s to-do list when he was making the documentary Apollo 11. So just consider it a bonus that his film about the first manned moon landing is so immersive that it feels like it’s happening in real-time on screen—and definitively un-faked. Apollo 11 doesn’t run through the usual grainy footage thatDESPICABLE ME
Until the “creep + orphans = happy family” formula starts demanding abrupt, unconvincing character mutations, Despicable Me is a giddy joy. It takes place in a world seemingly inspired by The Incredibles—the superheroes are missing, but the cartoon physics, crazy devices, and outsized conquer-the-world plots are all in place, ready to set up big action setpieces with a sly sense of humor. FILM | THE A.V. CLUB 1. There’s a running gag about binge-watching Friends in the sweet, amiable, mildly subversive indie comedy Together Together. It’s not a knee-slapper, exactly—the film uses a ’90s primetime phenomenon that’s become a shorthand for basic pop culture taste as an easy way to bridge the generational gap between two people . FILM | THE A.V. CLUB Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. Advertisement Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Cruella coming to theaters and Disney+, we’re looking at some ofCOMMUNE - FILM
The Black Bear communal ranch in northern California was partially funded by rock stars who were guilted into ponying up the dough by a handful of enterprising hippies who accused them of "trading off our lifestyle." That kind of defiant idealism was a lofty place for the Black Bears to start, and Jonathan Berman's documentary Commune covers the founders' inevitable descent intoTHE GRUDGE - FILM
Like so many Japanese innovations, the late-'90s genre known as J-horror took its time reaching the West, but now seems poised to become part of the fabric of everyday life. The Ring began the cycle in 2002, bringing American crowds into a remake of what was, in Japan and much of Asia, already a long-running franchise of horror films about a cursed videotape. The Grudge tries to do ...AND GOD CREATED WOMAN Clearly viewing female sexuality as a force only marginally less dangerous than the hydrogen bomb, And God Created Woman is an awful film full of stilted dialogue, egregious sexism, and ugly racism. But as a depiction of post-war masculinity attempting to come to terms with a new breed of woman, it's a historic bit of pop-culturesociology.
INSOMNIA - FILM
A gimmick is only a gimmick if it's in service of nothing but its own gimmickry. The big twist in Christopher Nolan's astonishing Memento–a thriller that unfolds in reverse chronological order–is that the gimmick suddenly melts away, revealing a deeply considered and profound statement about the slippery nature of memory and the human capacity for self-deception. So it only followsSAW - THE A.V. CLUB
They collect bones, dine on fresh brains, stitch together plus-size human skins, demonstrate the Seven Deadly Sins with grisly literalism, and delight in prodding existentially tortured detectives by leaving oblique clues at the crime scene. Yet no serial killer has ever been as gimmicky as the bogeyman in James Wan's uproariously idiotic thriller Saw, which plays like a cross between SevenGALAXY QUEST
It's been a strange couple of years for the Star Trek franchise. At least since the re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy in 1997, Trek's place in popular culture has seemed considerably less prominent, as two series left the air and the public's attention turned away from the principled humanism of Gene Roddenberry's creation and more toward the mythic vagaries of SUNDANCE WINNER NANCY TOYS WITH OUR SYMPATHY FOR A The “unlikable female protagonist” subgenre finds a worthy new entry in Nancy, the Sundance-winning feature debut of talented writer-director Christina Choe. In an emotionally ambiguous, formally restrained tale of intentionally mistaken identity, Nancy sets its title character up as a lost, lonely woman in an alienating world, then pushes the audience’s sympathy for her as far as it can go. IN THE UNNERVING SUN CHOKE, A SICK WOMAN SPREADS HER Sarah Hagan has had two memorably substantial roles in her career thus far—both on television, and both over a decade ago. She was the rigorously prim mathlete Millie on Freaks And Geeks, and played Amanda, one of the “potentials” in the final season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Since the early 2000s, Hagan’s mostly been relegated to guest shots and bit parts, but that should change FILM | THE A.V. CLUB 1. There’s a running gag about binge-watching Friends in the sweet, amiable, mildly subversive indie comedy Together Together. It’s not a knee-slapper, exactly—the film uses a ’90s primetime phenomenon that’s become a shorthand for basic pop culture taste as an easy way to bridge the generational gap between two people . FILM | THE A.V. CLUB Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. Advertisement Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Cruella coming to theaters and Disney+, we’re looking at some ofCOMMUNE - FILM
The Black Bear communal ranch in northern California was partially funded by rock stars who were guilted into ponying up the dough by a handful of enterprising hippies who accused them of "trading off our lifestyle." That kind of defiant idealism was a lofty place for the Black Bears to start, and Jonathan Berman's documentary Commune covers the founders' inevitable descent intoTHE GRUDGE - FILM
Like so many Japanese innovations, the late-'90s genre known as J-horror took its time reaching the West, but now seems poised to become part of the fabric of everyday life. The Ring began the cycle in 2002, bringing American crowds into a remake of what was, in Japan and much of Asia, already a long-running franchise of horror films about a cursed videotape. The Grudge tries to do ...AND GOD CREATED WOMAN Clearly viewing female sexuality as a force only marginally less dangerous than the hydrogen bomb, And God Created Woman is an awful film full of stilted dialogue, egregious sexism, and ugly racism. But as a depiction of post-war masculinity attempting to come to terms with a new breed of woman, it's a historic bit of pop-culturesociology.
INSOMNIA - FILM
A gimmick is only a gimmick if it's in service of nothing but its own gimmickry. The big twist in Christopher Nolan's astonishing Memento–a thriller that unfolds in reverse chronological order–is that the gimmick suddenly melts away, revealing a deeply considered and profound statement about the slippery nature of memory and the human capacity for self-deception. So it only followsSAW - THE A.V. CLUB
They collect bones, dine on fresh brains, stitch together plus-size human skins, demonstrate the Seven Deadly Sins with grisly literalism, and delight in prodding existentially tortured detectives by leaving oblique clues at the crime scene. Yet no serial killer has ever been as gimmicky as the bogeyman in James Wan's uproariously idiotic thriller Saw, which plays like a cross between SevenGALAXY QUEST
It's been a strange couple of years for the Star Trek franchise. At least since the re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy in 1997, Trek's place in popular culture has seemed considerably less prominent, as two series left the air and the public's attention turned away from the principled humanism of Gene Roddenberry's creation and more toward the mythic vagaries of SUNDANCE WINNER NANCY TOYS WITH OUR SYMPATHY FOR A The “unlikable female protagonist” subgenre finds a worthy new entry in Nancy, the Sundance-winning feature debut of talented writer-director Christina Choe. In an emotionally ambiguous, formally restrained tale of intentionally mistaken identity, Nancy sets its title character up as a lost, lonely woman in an alienating world, then pushes the audience’s sympathy for her as far as it can go. IN THE UNNERVING SUN CHOKE, A SICK WOMAN SPREADS HER Sarah Hagan has had two memorably substantial roles in her career thus far—both on television, and both over a decade ago. She was the rigorously prim mathlete Millie on Freaks And Geeks, and played Amanda, one of the “potentials” in the final season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Since the early 2000s, Hagan’s mostly been relegated to guest shots and bit parts, but that should change FILM | THE A.V. CLUB Night In Paradise brings a stylish, wearyingly grim South Korean crime epic to Netflix. Jason Shawhan. 9. Save. Two gangs, the Yang and Bukseong, have gathered for a summit to stem the hemorrhaging of goons from both. The negotiations, which will end some lives and save others, unfold across a table headed by Police Director Ma (ChaSeung-won).
FILM | THE A.V. CLUB 14. Save. Yesterday, the British Academy Of Film And Television Arts started holding its annual awards ceremony, the BAFTAs, with Sound Of Metal taking home the top prize of Best Sound (naturally, because “sound” is right there in the title). Much like a particularly contentious game of cricket, though, the BAFTAs actually go . FILM | THE A.V. CLUB Steven Seagal is a frequently accused sexual predator and all-around dumpster human. He also runs like a toddler who just pissed his pants in the local grocery story and is frantically searching for an adult to change his pull-up diapers. We’ve documented much of theSTAR TREK - FILM
Mothballed early this decade by a string of increasingly unpopular TV series and films, the venerable Star Trek series hasn’t so much been pulled out of storage with this new film as dusted off, broken down to its most basic parts, streamlined, and sent blazing off at an acute angle from its original course. Directed by J.J. Abrams—it’s his second feature directorial effort after helpingAIRPLANE! - FILM
Before Airplane! came along in 1980, the anything-goes vaudeville aesthetic had more or less died off with the Marx Brothers, which might explain why much of a generation grew up thinking the disaster-movie spoof was the funniest ever made. Not the best comedy ever made, of course, but considered in bulk, nothing could really top the sheer quantity of laughs being offered, even when LAND REVIEW: A TEPID FIRST FEATURE FOR ROBIN WRIGHT In the opening scene of Land, the first feature film directed by Robin Wright, a fruitless therapy session captured in anemic neutral colors gives way to a glorious, sun-specked drive up the mountains of Wyoming.Suicidal after a devastating loss, Edee (Wright, pulling double duty behind and in front of the camera) has gone off the grid, purchasing a dingy log cabin where she plans to live outGALAXY QUEST
It's been a strange couple of years for the Star Trek franchise. At least since the re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy in 1997, Trek's place in popular culture has seemed considerably less prominent, as two series left the air and the public's attention turned away from the principled humanism of Gene Roddenberry's creation and more toward the mythic vagaries of George Lucas'YOU, THE LIVING
Finished right on time for the new millennium, Roy Andersson’s 2000 opus Songs From The Second Floor captured the apocalyptic mood of the world’s deepest pessimists with mordant black comedy and mind-blowing cinematic tableaux. Andersson’s attitude was so bleak—and the lumpen souls on display so pallid, dreary, and hopeless—that it manifested as gallows humor, his artful way of THE ASTONISHING DOCUMENTARY APOLLO 11 SHOOTS THE MOON Shutting down conspiracy theorists probably wasn’t high on director Todd Douglas Miller’s to-do list when he was making the documentary Apollo 11. So just consider it a bonus that his film about the first manned moon landing is so immersive that it feels like it’s happening in real-time on screen—and definitively un-faked. Apollo 11 doesn’t run through the usual grainy footage thatDESPICABLE ME
Until the “creep + orphans = happy family” formula starts demanding abrupt, unconvincing character mutations, Despicable Me is a giddy joy. It takes place in a world seemingly inspired by The Incredibles—the superheroes are missing, but the cartoon physics, crazy devices, and outsized conquer-the-world plots are all in place, ready to set up big action setpieces with a sly sense of humor. FILM | THE A.V. CLUB 1. There’s a running gag about binge-watching Friends in the sweet, amiable, mildly subversive indie comedy Together Together. It’s not a knee-slapper, exactly—the film uses a ’90s primetime phenomenon that’s become a shorthand for basic pop culture taste as an easy way to bridge the generational gap between two people . FILM | THE A.V. CLUB Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. Advertisement Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Cruella coming to theaters and Disney+, we’re looking at some ofCOMMUNE - FILM
The Black Bear communal ranch in northern California was partially funded by rock stars who were guilted into ponying up the dough by a handful of enterprising hippies who accused them of "trading off our lifestyle." That kind of defiant idealism was a lofty place for the Black Bears to start, and Jonathan Berman's documentary Commune covers the founders' inevitable descent intoTHE GRUDGE - FILM
Like so many Japanese innovations, the late-'90s genre known as J-horror took its time reaching the West, but now seems poised to become part of the fabric of everyday life. The Ring began the cycle in 2002, bringing American crowds into a remake of what was, in Japan and much of Asia, already a long-running franchise of horror films about a cursed videotape. The Grudge tries to do ...AND GOD CREATED WOMAN Clearly viewing female sexuality as a force only marginally less dangerous than the hydrogen bomb, And God Created Woman is an awful film full of stilted dialogue, egregious sexism, and ugly racism. But as a depiction of post-war masculinity attempting to come to terms with a new breed of woman, it's a historic bit of pop-culturesociology.
INSOMNIA - FILM
A gimmick is only a gimmick if it's in service of nothing but its own gimmickry. The big twist in Christopher Nolan's astonishing Memento–a thriller that unfolds in reverse chronological order–is that the gimmick suddenly melts away, revealing a deeply considered and profound statement about the slippery nature of memory and the human capacity for self-deception. So it only followsSAW - THE A.V. CLUB
They collect bones, dine on fresh brains, stitch together plus-size human skins, demonstrate the Seven Deadly Sins with grisly literalism, and delight in prodding existentially tortured detectives by leaving oblique clues at the crime scene. Yet no serial killer has ever been as gimmicky as the bogeyman in James Wan's uproariously idiotic thriller Saw, which plays like a cross between SevenGALAXY QUEST
It's been a strange couple of years for the Star Trek franchise. At least since the re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy in 1997, Trek's place in popular culture has seemed considerably less prominent, as two series left the air and the public's attention turned away from the principled humanism of Gene Roddenberry's creation and more toward the mythic vagaries of SUNDANCE WINNER NANCY TOYS WITH OUR SYMPATHY FOR A The “unlikable female protagonist” subgenre finds a worthy new entry in Nancy, the Sundance-winning feature debut of talented writer-director Christina Choe. In an emotionally ambiguous, formally restrained tale of intentionally mistaken identity, Nancy sets its title character up as a lost, lonely woman in an alienating world, then pushes the audience’s sympathy for her as far as it can go. IN THE UNNERVING SUN CHOKE, A SICK WOMAN SPREADS HER Sarah Hagan has had two memorably substantial roles in her career thus far—both on television, and both over a decade ago. She was the rigorously prim mathlete Millie on Freaks And Geeks, and played Amanda, one of the “potentials” in the final season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Since the early 2000s, Hagan’s mostly been relegated to guest shots and bit parts, but that should change FILM | THE A.V. CLUB 1. There’s a running gag about binge-watching Friends in the sweet, amiable, mildly subversive indie comedy Together Together. It’s not a knee-slapper, exactly—the film uses a ’90s primetime phenomenon that’s become a shorthand for basic pop culture taste as an easy way to bridge the generational gap between two people . FILM | THE A.V. CLUB Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. Advertisement Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Cruella coming to theaters and Disney+, we’re looking at some ofCOMMUNE - FILM
The Black Bear communal ranch in northern California was partially funded by rock stars who were guilted into ponying up the dough by a handful of enterprising hippies who accused them of "trading off our lifestyle." That kind of defiant idealism was a lofty place for the Black Bears to start, and Jonathan Berman's documentary Commune covers the founders' inevitable descent intoTHE GRUDGE - FILM
Like so many Japanese innovations, the late-'90s genre known as J-horror took its time reaching the West, but now seems poised to become part of the fabric of everyday life. The Ring began the cycle in 2002, bringing American crowds into a remake of what was, in Japan and much of Asia, already a long-running franchise of horror films about a cursed videotape. The Grudge tries to do ...AND GOD CREATED WOMAN Clearly viewing female sexuality as a force only marginally less dangerous than the hydrogen bomb, And God Created Woman is an awful film full of stilted dialogue, egregious sexism, and ugly racism. But as a depiction of post-war masculinity attempting to come to terms with a new breed of woman, it's a historic bit of pop-culturesociology.
INSOMNIA - FILM
A gimmick is only a gimmick if it's in service of nothing but its own gimmickry. The big twist in Christopher Nolan's astonishing Memento–a thriller that unfolds in reverse chronological order–is that the gimmick suddenly melts away, revealing a deeply considered and profound statement about the slippery nature of memory and the human capacity for self-deception. So it only followsSAW - THE A.V. CLUB
They collect bones, dine on fresh brains, stitch together plus-size human skins, demonstrate the Seven Deadly Sins with grisly literalism, and delight in prodding existentially tortured detectives by leaving oblique clues at the crime scene. Yet no serial killer has ever been as gimmicky as the bogeyman in James Wan's uproariously idiotic thriller Saw, which plays like a cross between SevenGALAXY QUEST
It's been a strange couple of years for the Star Trek franchise. At least since the re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy in 1997, Trek's place in popular culture has seemed considerably less prominent, as two series left the air and the public's attention turned away from the principled humanism of Gene Roddenberry's creation and more toward the mythic vagaries of SUNDANCE WINNER NANCY TOYS WITH OUR SYMPATHY FOR A The “unlikable female protagonist” subgenre finds a worthy new entry in Nancy, the Sundance-winning feature debut of talented writer-director Christina Choe. In an emotionally ambiguous, formally restrained tale of intentionally mistaken identity, Nancy sets its title character up as a lost, lonely woman in an alienating world, then pushes the audience’s sympathy for her as far as it can go. IN THE UNNERVING SUN CHOKE, A SICK WOMAN SPREADS HER Sarah Hagan has had two memorably substantial roles in her career thus far—both on television, and both over a decade ago. She was the rigorously prim mathlete Millie on Freaks And Geeks, and played Amanda, one of the “potentials” in the final season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Since the early 2000s, Hagan’s mostly been relegated to guest shots and bit parts, but that should change FILM | THE A.V. CLUB Night In Paradise brings a stylish, wearyingly grim South Korean crime epic to Netflix. Jason Shawhan. 9. Save. Two gangs, the Yang and Bukseong, have gathered for a summit to stem the hemorrhaging of goons from both. The negotiations, which will end some lives and save others, unfold across a table headed by Police Director Ma (ChaSeung-won).
FILM | THE A.V. CLUB 14. Save. Yesterday, the British Academy Of Film And Television Arts started holding its annual awards ceremony, the BAFTAs, with Sound Of Metal taking home the top prize of Best Sound (naturally, because “sound” is right there in the title). Much like a particularly contentious game of cricket, though, the BAFTAs actually go . FILM | THE A.V. CLUB Steven Seagal is a frequently accused sexual predator and all-around dumpster human. He also runs like a toddler who just pissed his pants in the local grocery story and is frantically searching for an adult to change his pull-up diapers. We’ve documented much of theSTAR TREK - FILM
Mothballed early this decade by a string of increasingly unpopular TV series and films, the venerable Star Trek series hasn’t so much been pulled out of storage with this new film as dusted off, broken down to its most basic parts, streamlined, and sent blazing off at an acute angle from its original course. Directed by J.J. Abrams—it’s his second feature directorial effort after helpingAIRPLANE! - FILM
Before Airplane! came along in 1980, the anything-goes vaudeville aesthetic had more or less died off with the Marx Brothers, which might explain why much of a generation grew up thinking the disaster-movie spoof was the funniest ever made. Not the best comedy ever made, of course, but considered in bulk, nothing could really top the sheer quantity of laughs being offered, even when LAND REVIEW: A TEPID FIRST FEATURE FOR ROBIN WRIGHT In the opening scene of Land, the first feature film directed by Robin Wright, a fruitless therapy session captured in anemic neutral colors gives way to a glorious, sun-specked drive up the mountains of Wyoming.Suicidal after a devastating loss, Edee (Wright, pulling double duty behind and in front of the camera) has gone off the grid, purchasing a dingy log cabin where she plans to live outGALAXY QUEST
It's been a strange couple of years for the Star Trek franchise. At least since the re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy in 1997, Trek's place in popular culture has seemed considerably less prominent, as two series left the air and the public's attention turned away from the principled humanism of Gene Roddenberry's creation and more toward the mythic vagaries of George Lucas'YOU, THE LIVING
Finished right on time for the new millennium, Roy Andersson’s 2000 opus Songs From The Second Floor captured the apocalyptic mood of the world’s deepest pessimists with mordant black comedy and mind-blowing cinematic tableaux. Andersson’s attitude was so bleak—and the lumpen souls on display so pallid, dreary, and hopeless—that it manifested as gallows humor, his artful way of THE ASTONISHING DOCUMENTARY APOLLO 11 SHOOTS THE MOON Shutting down conspiracy theorists probably wasn’t high on director Todd Douglas Miller’s to-do list when he was making the documentary Apollo 11. So just consider it a bonus that his film about the first manned moon landing is so immersive that it feels like it’s happening in real-time on screen—and definitively un-faked. Apollo 11 doesn’t run through the usual grainy footage thatDESPICABLE ME
Until the “creep + orphans = happy family” formula starts demanding abrupt, unconvincing character mutations, Despicable Me is a giddy joy. It takes place in a world seemingly inspired by The Incredibles—the superheroes are missing, but the cartoon physics, crazy devices, and outsized conquer-the-world plots are all in place, ready to set up big action setpieces with a sly sense of humor.COMMUNE - FILM
The Black Bear communal ranch in northern California was partially funded by rock stars who were guilted into ponying up the dough by a handful of enterprising hippies who accused them of "trading off our lifestyle." That kind of defiant idealism was a lofty place for the Black Bears to start, and Jonathan Berman's documentary Commune covers the founders' inevitable descent intoAIRPLANE! - FILM
Before Airplane! came along in 1980, the anything-goes vaudeville aesthetic had more or less died off with the Marx Brothers, which might explain why much of a generation grew up thinking the disaster-movie spoof was the funniest ever made. Not the best comedy ever made, of course, but considered in bulk, nothing could really top the sheer quantity of laughs being offered, even whenTHE GRUDGE - FILM
Like so many Japanese innovations, the late-'90s genre known as J-horror took its time reaching the West, but now seems poised to become part of the fabric of everyday life. The Ring began the cycle in 2002, bringing American crowds into a remake of what was, in Japan and much of Asia, already a long-running franchise of horror films about a cursed videotape. The Grudge tries to doTHE AVIATOR
By all accounts, the making of Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York was an Olympian undertaking, only slightly less difficult and logistically challenging than the Allied invasion of Normandy. Most mere mortals would take an extended break after such a mammoth effort, but Scorsese has leaped madly back into the fray with The Aviator, another sprawling, two-fisted, larger-than-life American epic ...AND GOD CREATED WOMAN Clearly viewing female sexuality as a force only marginally less dangerous than the hydrogen bomb, And God Created Woman is an awful film full of stilted dialogue, egregious sexism, and ugly racism. But as a depiction of post-war masculinity attempting to come to terms with a new breed of woman, it's a historic bit of pop-culturesociology.
OLD PARTNER
Old Partner isn’t entirely the story of man and ox shuffling off into the sunset together. It’s also the story of poverty, sacrifice, physical agony, and very real emotional tumult. That’s because Choi also has a long-suffering wife, Lee Sam-soon, whose every word is a lament over his hardheaded insistence on caring for the ox, whose health and happiness he’s unambiguously placed overRUN LOLA RUN
Especially since the rise of MTV and the emergence of rapid-fire editing, films have sacrificed substance for the sake of style. Run Lola Run, a new film by German director Tom Tykwer, smartly bypasses the artistic quandary: Rather than weigh substance versus style, Run Lola Run jettisons the former entirely. Franka Potente, the titular Lola, gets a phone call from criminal-boss flunky and IT'S MATT DAMON VERSUS ALAIN DELON IN THE BATTLE OF THE Purple Noon (1960) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). Tom Ripley is a chameleon. Over the course of five tense page-turners by the American novelist Patricia Highsmith, the famous con artist assumes stolen identities, falsifies documents, and murderously ties up loose ends—all to forge, in multiple senses of the word, the life that he wants.For an actor, the challenge and perhaps also the JACK NICHOLSON AND MERYL STREEP HIT THE STREETS IN IRONWEED Ironweed (1987). Ironweed wastes no time in establishing the weight of its sadness: Very early on, Francis (Jack Nicholson), a Depression-era bum poking around his hometown of Albany, New York, visits the grave of his long-gone infant son.The baby died just days old when Francis dropped him, and it becomes clear that this moment is about when Francis checked out of his family life. SUNDANCE WINNER NANCY TOYS WITH OUR SYMPATHY FOR A The “unlikable female protagonist” subgenre finds a worthy new entry in Nancy, the Sundance-winning feature debut of talented writer-director Christina Choe. In an emotionally ambiguous, formally restrained tale of intentionally mistaken identity, Nancy sets its title character up as a lost, lonely woman in an alienating world, then pushes the audience’s sympathy for her as far as it can go.COMMUNE - FILM
The Black Bear communal ranch in northern California was partially funded by rock stars who were guilted into ponying up the dough by a handful of enterprising hippies who accused them of "trading off our lifestyle." That kind of defiant idealism was a lofty place for the Black Bears to start, and Jonathan Berman's documentary Commune covers the founders' inevitable descent intoAIRPLANE! - FILM
Before Airplane! came along in 1980, the anything-goes vaudeville aesthetic had more or less died off with the Marx Brothers, which might explain why much of a generation grew up thinking the disaster-movie spoof was the funniest ever made. Not the best comedy ever made, of course, but considered in bulk, nothing could really top the sheer quantity of laughs being offered, even whenTHE GRUDGE - FILM
Like so many Japanese innovations, the late-'90s genre known as J-horror took its time reaching the West, but now seems poised to become part of the fabric of everyday life. The Ring began the cycle in 2002, bringing American crowds into a remake of what was, in Japan and much of Asia, already a long-running franchise of horror films about a cursed videotape. The Grudge tries to doTHE AVIATOR
By all accounts, the making of Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York was an Olympian undertaking, only slightly less difficult and logistically challenging than the Allied invasion of Normandy. Most mere mortals would take an extended break after such a mammoth effort, but Scorsese has leaped madly back into the fray with The Aviator, another sprawling, two-fisted, larger-than-life American epic ...AND GOD CREATED WOMAN Clearly viewing female sexuality as a force only marginally less dangerous than the hydrogen bomb, And God Created Woman is an awful film full of stilted dialogue, egregious sexism, and ugly racism. But as a depiction of post-war masculinity attempting to come to terms with a new breed of woman, it's a historic bit of pop-culturesociology.
OLD PARTNER
Old Partner isn’t entirely the story of man and ox shuffling off into the sunset together. It’s also the story of poverty, sacrifice, physical agony, and very real emotional tumult. That’s because Choi also has a long-suffering wife, Lee Sam-soon, whose every word is a lament over his hardheaded insistence on caring for the ox, whose health and happiness he’s unambiguously placed over IT'S MATT DAMON VERSUS ALAIN DELON IN THE BATTLE OF THE Purple Noon (1960) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). Tom Ripley is a chameleon. Over the course of five tense page-turners by the American novelist Patricia Highsmith, the famous con artist assumes stolen identities, falsifies documents, and murderously ties up loose ends—all to forge, in multiple senses of the word, the life that he wants.For an actor, the challenge and perhaps also theRUN LOLA RUN
Especially since the rise of MTV and the emergence of rapid-fire editing, films have sacrificed substance for the sake of style. Run Lola Run, a new film by German director Tom Tykwer, smartly bypasses the artistic quandary: Rather than weigh substance versus style, Run Lola Run jettisons the former entirely. Franka Potente, the titular Lola, gets a phone call from criminal-boss flunky and JACK NICHOLSON AND MERYL STREEP HIT THE STREETS IN IRONWEED Ironweed (1987). Ironweed wastes no time in establishing the weight of its sadness: Very early on, Francis (Jack Nicholson), a Depression-era bum poking around his hometown of Albany, New York, visits the grave of his long-gone infant son.The baby died just days old when Francis dropped him, and it becomes clear that this moment is about when Francis checked out of his family life. SUNDANCE WINNER NANCY TOYS WITH OUR SYMPATHY FOR A The “unlikable female protagonist” subgenre finds a worthy new entry in Nancy, the Sundance-winning feature debut of talented writer-director Christina Choe. In an emotionally ambiguous, formally restrained tale of intentionally mistaken identity, Nancy sets its title character up as a lost, lonely woman in an alienating world, then pushes the audience’s sympathy for her as far as it can go. FILM | THE A.V. CLUB 1. There’s a running gag about binge-watching Friends in the sweet, amiable, mildly subversive indie comedy Together Together. It’s not a knee-slapper, exactly—the film uses a ’90s primetime phenomenon that’s become a shorthand for basic pop culture taste as an easy way to bridge the generational gap between two people .SUPER 8 - FILM
Set in the streets, magic-hour-blanketed hills, and cluttered suburban homes of a small Ohio town as the 1970s edge into the ’80s, the J.J. Abrams -scripted-and-directed Super 8 —which Spielberg produced—consciously, and successfully, looks back to an era of abundant Spielbergiana. Joel Courtney leads a cast of talented, mostlyunfamiliar
INSOMNIA - FILM
A gimmick is only a gimmick if it's in service of nothing but its own gimmickry. The big twist in Christopher Nolan's astonishing Memento–a thriller that unfolds in reverse chronological order–is that the gimmick suddenly melts away, revealing a deeply considered and profound statement about the slippery nature of memory and the human capacity for self-deception. So it only followsJOHN ADAMS - FILM
John Adams was one of the unlikeliest founding fathers, more swept up in the events of the American Revolution than out in front of them. Because of that, he's been an ideal subject for two ground-level studies of how America came to be: David McCullough's epic biography John Adams, and HBO's seven-part, nearly nine-hour adaptation of same.As portrayed by Paul Giamatti on HBO, Adams is aYOU, THE LIVING
Finished right on time for the new millennium, Roy Andersson’s 2000 opus Songs From The Second Floor captured the apocalyptic mood of the world’s deepest pessimists with mordant black comedy and mind-blowing cinematic tableaux. Andersson’s attitude was so bleak—and the lumpen souls on display so pallid, dreary, and hopeless—that it manifested as gallows humor, his artful way of AVENGERS: ENDGAME REVIEW: A FUN, UNEVEN SCI-FI TEARJERKER Endgame is the true payoff, at least in terms of how (if not how well) it brings everything to a head. Instead of teasing future showdowns, it looks backwards, to what’s come before it—sometimes cleverly, sometimes quite literally, often with the excessive sentimentality of a Very Special Episode.GALAXY QUEST
It's been a strange couple of years for the Star Trek franchise. At least since the re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy in 1997, Trek's place in popular culture has seemed considerably less prominent, as two series left the air and the public's attention turned away from the principled humanism of Gene Roddenberry's creation and more toward the mythic vagaries of TRADING PLACES / COMING TO AMERICA In 1983's Trading Places, Eddie Murphy plays a pauper who becomes a prince of finance. In 1988's Coming To America, he plays a prince who masquerades as a pauper to find his ideal wife. Both films cleaned up at the box office during Murphy's Reagan-era heyday, and both let director John Landis channel Frank Capra. Trading Places taps into the farcical prankster side of Capra's personaKILLER JOE - FILM
Matthew McConaughey is this generation’s Robert Mitchum. This isn’t to say that the prime years McConaughey squandered shirtless in dire romantic comedies put him on equal footing with the iconic star of The Night Of The Hunter and Out Of The Past. But they have the same dangerous magnetism—lithe, relaxed, preternaturally self-assured, and almost feminine in their power to seduce. IN THE UNNERVING SUN CHOKE, A SICK WOMAN SPREADS HER Sarah Hagan has had two memorably substantial roles in her career thus far—both on television, and both over a decade ago. She was the rigorously prim mathlete Millie on Freaks And Geeks, and played Amanda, one of the “potentials” in the final season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Since the early 2000s, Hagan’s mostly been relegated to guest shots and bit parts, but that should change FILM | THE A.V. CLUB Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. Advertisement Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Cruella coming to theaters and Disney+, we’re looking at some ofTHE GRUDGE - FILM
Like so many Japanese innovations, the late-'90s genre known as J-horror took its time reaching the West, but now seems poised to become part of the fabric of everyday life. The Ring began the cycle in 2002, bringing American crowds into a remake of what was, in Japan and much of Asia, already a long-running franchise of horror films about a cursed videotape. The Grudge tries to doCOMMUNE - FILM
The Black Bear communal ranch in northern California was partially funded by rock stars who were guilted into ponying up the dough by a handful of enterprising hippies who accused them of "trading off our lifestyle." That kind of defiant idealism was a lofty place for the Black Bears to start, and Jonathan Berman's documentary Commune covers the founders' inevitable descent intoTHE AVIATOR
By all accounts, the making of Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York was an Olympian undertaking, only slightly less difficult and logistically challenging than the Allied invasion of Normandy. Most mere mortals would take an extended break after such a mammoth effort, but Scorsese has leaped madly back into the fray with The Aviator, another sprawling, two-fisted, larger-than-life American epicSAW - FILM
They collect bones, dine on fresh brains, stitch together plus-size human skins, demonstrate the Seven Deadly Sins with grisly literalism, and delight in prodding existentially tortured detectives by leaving oblique clues at the crime scene. Yet no serial killer has ever been as gimmicky as the bogeyman in James Wan's uproariously idiotic thriller Saw, which plays like a cross between SevenAIRPLANE! - FILM
Before Airplane! came along in 1980, the anything-goes vaudeville aesthetic had more or less died off with the Marx Brothers, which might explain why much of a generation grew up thinking the disaster-movie spoof was the funniest ever made. Not the best comedy ever made, of course, but considered in bulk, nothing could really top the sheer quantity of laughs being offered, even whenINSOMNIA - FILM
A gimmick is only a gimmick if it's in service of nothing but its own gimmickry. The big twist in Christopher Nolan's astonishing Memento–a thriller that unfolds in reverse chronological order–is that the gimmick suddenly melts away, revealing a deeply considered and profound statement about the slippery nature of memory and the human capacity for self-deception. So it only follows PLEASE, SOMEONE INTRODUCE DWAYNE JOHNSON TO BETTER DIRECTORS Please, someone introduce Dwayne Johnson to better directors. Alex McLevy. 7/10/19 8:00AM. 371. 3. Screenshot: YouTube. On Monday, the announcement went out that Netflix would be picking up the tab for a new blockbuster thriller from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, called Red Notice. Co-starring Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds, the film lookslike
GALAXY QUEST
It's been a strange couple of years for the Star Trek franchise. At least since the re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy in 1997, Trek's place in popular culture has seemed considerably less prominent, as two series left the air and the public's attention turned away from the principled humanism of Gene Roddenberry's creation and more toward the mythic vagaries of George Lucas'OH! CALCUTTA!
Oh! Calcutta!'s on-stage run lasted a remarkable 17 years, but it's still safe to assume that most Americans knew the show largely as fodder for Johnny Carson monologues. Decades before Viagra, Monica Lewinsky, or Brokeback Mountain, Oh! Calcutta! served an instant punchline, a provocative "nudie musical" that delighted in pushing square America's buttons. FILM | THE A.V. CLUB Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. Advertisement Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Cruella coming to theaters and Disney+, we’re looking at some ofTHE GRUDGE - FILM
Like so many Japanese innovations, the late-'90s genre known as J-horror took its time reaching the West, but now seems poised to become part of the fabric of everyday life. The Ring began the cycle in 2002, bringing American crowds into a remake of what was, in Japan and much of Asia, already a long-running franchise of horror films about a cursed videotape. The Grudge tries to doCOMMUNE - FILM
The Black Bear communal ranch in northern California was partially funded by rock stars who were guilted into ponying up the dough by a handful of enterprising hippies who accused them of "trading off our lifestyle." That kind of defiant idealism was a lofty place for the Black Bears to start, and Jonathan Berman's documentary Commune covers the founders' inevitable descent intoTHE AVIATOR
By all accounts, the making of Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York was an Olympian undertaking, only slightly less difficult and logistically challenging than the Allied invasion of Normandy. Most mere mortals would take an extended break after such a mammoth effort, but Scorsese has leaped madly back into the fray with The Aviator, another sprawling, two-fisted, larger-than-life American epicSAW - FILM
They collect bones, dine on fresh brains, stitch together plus-size human skins, demonstrate the Seven Deadly Sins with grisly literalism, and delight in prodding existentially tortured detectives by leaving oblique clues at the crime scene. Yet no serial killer has ever been as gimmicky as the bogeyman in James Wan's uproariously idiotic thriller Saw, which plays like a cross between SevenAIRPLANE! - FILM
Before Airplane! came along in 1980, the anything-goes vaudeville aesthetic had more or less died off with the Marx Brothers, which might explain why much of a generation grew up thinking the disaster-movie spoof was the funniest ever made. Not the best comedy ever made, of course, but considered in bulk, nothing could really top the sheer quantity of laughs being offered, even whenINSOMNIA - FILM
A gimmick is only a gimmick if it's in service of nothing but its own gimmickry. The big twist in Christopher Nolan's astonishing Memento–a thriller that unfolds in reverse chronological order–is that the gimmick suddenly melts away, revealing a deeply considered and profound statement about the slippery nature of memory and the human capacity for self-deception. So it only follows PLEASE, SOMEONE INTRODUCE DWAYNE JOHNSON TO BETTER DIRECTORS Please, someone introduce Dwayne Johnson to better directors. Alex McLevy. 7/10/19 8:00AM. 371. 3. Screenshot: YouTube. On Monday, the announcement went out that Netflix would be picking up the tab for a new blockbuster thriller from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, called Red Notice. Co-starring Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds, the film lookslike
GALAXY QUEST
It's been a strange couple of years for the Star Trek franchise. At least since the re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy in 1997, Trek's place in popular culture has seemed considerably less prominent, as two series left the air and the public's attention turned away from the principled humanism of Gene Roddenberry's creation and more toward the mythic vagaries of George Lucas'OH! CALCUTTA!
Oh! Calcutta!'s on-stage run lasted a remarkable 17 years, but it's still safe to assume that most Americans knew the show largely as fodder for Johnny Carson monologues. Decades before Viagra, Monica Lewinsky, or Brokeback Mountain, Oh! Calcutta! served an instant punchline, a provocative "nudie musical" that delighted in pushing square America's buttons. FILM | THE A.V. CLUB 1. There’s a running gag about binge-watching Friends in the sweet, amiable, mildly subversive indie comedy Together Together. It’s not a knee-slapper, exactly—the film uses a ’90s primetime phenomenon that’s become a shorthand for basic pop culture taste as an easy way to bridge the generational gap between two people .SAW - FILM
They collect bones, dine on fresh brains, stitch together plus-size human skins, demonstrate the Seven Deadly Sins with grisly literalism, and delight in prodding existentially tortured detectives by leaving oblique clues at the crime scene. Yet no serial killer has ever been as gimmicky as the bogeyman in James Wan's uproariously idiotic thriller Saw, which plays like a cross between SevenAIRPLANE! - FILM
Before Airplane! came along in 1980, the anything-goes vaudeville aesthetic had more or less died off with the Marx Brothers, which might explain why much of a generation grew up thinking the disaster-movie spoof was the funniest ever made. Not the best comedy ever made, of course, but considered in bulk, nothing could really top the sheer quantity of laughs being offered, even whenGALAXY QUEST
It's been a strange couple of years for the Star Trek franchise. At least since the re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy in 1997, Trek's place in popular culture has seemed considerably less prominent, as two series left the air and the public's attention turned away from the principled humanism of Gene Roddenberry's creation and more toward the mythic vagaries of AVENGERS: ENDGAME REVIEW: A FUN, UNEVEN SCI-FI TEARJERKER Endgame is the true payoff, at least in terms of how (if not how well) it brings everything to a head. Instead of teasing future showdowns, it looks backwards, to what’s come before it—sometimes cleverly, sometimes quite literally, often with the excessive sentimentality of a Very Special Episode.RUN LOLA RUN
Especially since the rise of MTV and the emergence of rapid-fire editing, films have sacrificed substance for the sake of style. Run Lola Run, a new film by German director Tom Tykwer, smartly bypasses the artistic quandary: Rather than weigh substance versus style, Run Lola Run jettisons the former entirely. Franka Potente, the titular Lola, gets a phone call from criminal-boss flunky andTHE TOOTH FAIRY
Watching modern kiddie comedies, it’s generally better for the soul to look for ways in which the glass is half-full rather than half-empty. Case in point: The new Dwayne Johnson vehicle, The Tooth Fairy, doesn’t feature a lot of crotch-slamming, farting, singing CGI rodents, or shrieking children. It does feature Julie Andrews in a welcome return to her usual role as a sweetly benevolent TRADING PLACES / COMING TO AMERICA In 1983's Trading Places, Eddie Murphy plays a pauper who becomes a prince of finance. In 1988's Coming To America, he plays a prince who masquerades as a pauper to find his ideal wife. Both films cleaned up at the box office during Murphy's Reagan-era heyday, and both let director John Landis channel Frank Capra. Trading Places taps into the farcical prankster side of Capra's persona THE ASTONISHING DOCUMENTARY APOLLO 11 SHOOTS THE MOON Shutting down conspiracy theorists probably wasn’t high on director Todd Douglas Miller’s to-do list when he was making the documentary Apollo 11. So just consider it a bonus that his film about the first manned moon landing is so immersive that it feels like it’s happening in real-time on screen—and definitively un-faked. Apollo 11 doesn’t run through the usual grainy footage that IN THE UNNERVING SUN CHOKE, A SICK WOMAN SPREADS HER Sarah Hagan has had two memorably substantial roles in her career thus far—both on television, and both over a decade ago. She was the rigorously prim mathlete Millie on Freaks And Geeks, and played Amanda, one of the “potentials” in the final season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Since the early 2000s, Hagan’s mostly been relegated to guest shots and bit parts, but that should changeTHE AVIATOR
By all accounts, the making of Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York was an Olympian undertaking, only slightly less difficult and logistically challenging than the Allied invasion of Normandy. Most mere mortals would take an extended break after such a mammoth effort, but Scorsese has leaped madly back into the fray with The Aviator, another sprawling, two-fisted, larger-than-life American epicTHE GRUDGE - FILM
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Occultism and horror movies make a good pair. On screen, the occult retains all of its intrigue, while eliminating the dense prose you otherwise have to slog through to get to the good stuff. Of course, serious occultists may disagree, not least because these movies also tend to paint them as cannibals and murderers. But for dabblers and fellow travelers, it’s a fun bit of seasoning to sprinkle onto the genre. _Gretel And Hansel_ is the latest horror movie to use such imagery, employing witchcraft both to enhance its visual appeal and to establish a dreamlike mood in a way that recalls Luca Guadagnino’s_Suspiria_
remake. The aesthetic here is Pennsylvania Dutch by way of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s _The Holy Mountain_,
and the appeal lies in the mesmerizing tone that’s established early in the film and lingers through the end credits.Movie Review
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GRETEL AND HANSEL
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Oz Perkins
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97 minutes
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PG-13
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English
CAST
Sophia Lillis, Sammy Leakey, Alice Krige, Jessica De Gouw, CharlesBabalola
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_Gretel And Hansel _comes from Oz Perkins, the cult director who’s made a name for himself on the strength of two films,_ __The Blackcoat’s Daughter_ and_ __I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House_.
This is Perkins’ first film to receive a wide theatrical release, and so perhaps it’s to be expected that it would also be his most commercial one to date. Sort of. Though it moves at a much brisker clip_,_ “commercial” is a relative term for a film where the camera lingers on a character pulling a lengthy tress of child’s hair from the back of her throat. The balance Perkins strikes in _Gretel And Hansel _is reminiscent of another contemporary arthouse horror director, Robert Eggers, whose films aren’t impossibly dense but are too slow for a decent chunk of the horror audience. In fact, screenwriter Rob Hayes borrows a favorite technique of Eggers’, employing stylized dialogue that takes a few minutes to get used to but eventually helps the viewer sink into the film’s world._It_
and _Sharp Objects_
’ Sophia Lillis
stars as a teenage Gretel, whose name is put in front of her brother’s in the title for reasons that become clear later on. As the film opens, Gretel is looking for work as a servant, and nearly takes a job with a foppish landowner in makeup and sock garters until he asks her if her “maidenhead” is intact. This is the first of a handful of nods to the dangers of moving through the world in a female body, a theme that’s handled surprisingly well considering the film has both a male director and a male screenwriter. It’s also important to what happens after Gretel and her little brother, Hansel (Sammy Leakey), are sent away by their mother, who’s both unwilling and unable to feed them any longer. As in the fairy tale, they fall into the clutches of a sinister witch after nearly starving to death in the woods. But this witch (Alice Krige) lives in a wooden house instead of one made out of gingerbread and gumdrops. She also shows a special interest in Gretel, who seems to have an inborn talent formagic.
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This addition to the story allows _Gretel And Hansel _to explore richer territory than a straightforward fairy tale adaptation, while also leading it to a conclusion that’s almost as predictable as one. Much of this plodding quality is a result of the voice-over that bookends the film, which isn’t quite _Blade Runner_bad in terms of
over-explaining the plot, but it’s in the same ballpark. It doesn’t entirely break the spell of the film’s carefully constructed atmosphere, but it does threaten to, as does Perkins’ choice to have the actors speak in a variety of accents. These are relatively minor considerations, though, and although _Gretel And Hansel _never makes it to pulse-pounding terror, it does sustain its eerie tone long and well enough that the cumulative effect is hypnotic. The sound effects are also boldly applied, as is the ambient score from French composer ROB, whose use of a mellotron gives this soundtrack a warmer feel than his score for Coralie Fargeat’s_Revenge_
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As you might expect based on Perkins’ other movies, _Gretel And Hansel_’s strongest asset is its unique and evocative style, heavy on geometric patterns and glowing orange candlelight. This is not supposed to be any real place at any real time: “Is it not there?” Hansel asks his sister when they first see the witch’s house. “It isn’t. And neither are we,” she replies. This is a fairy tale within a fairy tale, and both the film’s costuming and production design take traditional European styles and add striking modern touches, like the solid black hood that covers one enchantress’ face under her wide-brimmed black hat. Some of this imagery feels legitimately edgy for a PG-13 mainstream theatrical release, like the scene where a witch lays out a feast of human organs as a satanic shadow of the nightly banquet Gretel and Hansel enjoy with their new guardian. So if one of the boundaries being tested in this film is viewers’ patience, the reward for—to use a refrain repeated throughout the film—“trusting the darkness” is well worth thecommitment.
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