Director Duke Johnson made his feature debut with 2015’s Anomalisa, a film he co-directed with Charlie Kaufman, a filmmaker whose name alone conjures up strange, idiosyncratic projects. As a stop-motion animator, Johnson’s projects have equally been unconventional, with Johnson working…
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Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is a controversial series — and for good reason. The show is flawed at best, with tedious pacing and borderline offensive creative decisions. There is, however, one shining light that almost everyone can…
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On more than one occasion, Michael Fassbender goes fishing in Black Bag. These scenes sum up the movie’s tone. Black Bag is presented as a spy thriller, which it is. Despite the presence of Pierce Brosnan and Naomie Harris, though,…
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It was another explosive night on WWE Raw, and this time, the action took over Madison Square Garden. The long-awaited steel cage match between CM Punk and Seth Rollins delivered everything fans hoped for—until Roman Reigns made sure neither man…
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The Accountant 2's best scenes have nothing to do with guns or hand-to-hand combat. In fact, when I saw the film last night at its SXSW world premiere, the audience was laughing along with it more than they were gasping…
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The commonplace, overused narrative about filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo, aka The Russo Brothers, is that ever since their tremendously successful Marvel run—five films culminating with two of the highest-grossing box office films of all time, “Avengers: Infinity War” and…
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Introduced in 1930, Looney Tunes has now been around for almost a century, but the last few years have been rough for this goofy crew. 2021’s Space Jam: A New Legacy wasn’t exactly the brand resurgence that Warner Bros. clearly…
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We all saw the trailer and had the haunting visage of Woody Harrelson’s Mr. Peanut seared permanently into our minds, and at long last, the wait is over. Netflix’s latest budget-breaking star vehicle, The Electric State, is finally upon us,…
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I’ve always admired A24 for taking risks with movies. The studio isn’t by-the-books when it comes to what it releases and the studio’s films can range from incredibly dramatic to incredibly weird. Death of a Unicorn falls into the latter…
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AUSTIN – There’s a good chance a fair amount of those excited to see “The Rivals of Amziah King,” the stellar second feature from writer-director Andrew Patterson who burst onto the scene with the sci-fi gem “The Vast of Night,”…
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There's no question that we're in a fantasy genre resurgence right now, across all forms of media. From hit TV shows like House of the Dragon and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power to the sheer increase…
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True crime has always cast a perverse spell over society's imagination, but the topic's contemporary popularity boom has propelled it into a consistent limelight. For some, devouring entertainment devoted to crime cases provides a safe avenue for them to explore…
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