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ANOMALISA Yep. Puppets are still creepy, no matter what. In his screenplays for Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Adaptation, Charlie Kaufman demonstrated two things: that he’s fond of exploring themes of identity, memory, romantic love, and self-loathing; and that his own un-spotless mind is a fevered, neurotic wonderland. Kaufman’s latest, […]
Behold! The return of Charlie Kaufman!
99 HOMES “Okay, that’s the last time we hire Rage Against the Machine as our interior decorators.” The very first thing we see in 99 Homes is the brain-spattered wall of an Orlando bathroom where a man has committed suicide rather than be evicted from his home. The evictor, a Florida-twanged foreclosure vulture named Rick […]
Spider-Man and Zod in the greatest fight of their lives… the fight for affordable housing.
PAWN SACRIFICE “Man, these checkers look weird.” The Bobby Fischer biopic Pawn Sacrifice seems to have been made not because someone had insight into the chess champion’s character, but because someone realized Bobby Fischer was famous but didn’t have a biopic yet. Directed with earnest blandness by Edward Zwick (Glory, The Last Samurai) from a […]
Hey, look, a chess movie nobody asked for.
The Duke of Burgundy: Not mere lezploitation!
Spoiler: Nobody even gets taken in Tak3n!
Listen Up Philip: Like a book! That is also a movie!
Begin Again: Like Once, but with Mark Ruffalo!
Veronica Mars is just like the TV show! But now it costs money!
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