Saturday, March 26, 2022
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Author: Zadie Smith
(ph: Sebastian Kim)
Zadie Adeline Smith FRSL is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth, immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She has been a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University since September 2010.
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Friday, March 25, 2022
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Thoroughbreds (2017)
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Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost.
A teenage crime drama is imaginatively presented as a psychological study of two girl buddies, wonderfully played with understatement by Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy, tinged with wry sense of humor.
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
The Last House on Dead End Street (1973)
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Infamous, hard-to-digest, lowest budget exploitation horror is actually made with quite some cinematic intelligence, and the grimy photography adds to the thoroughly malicious, disturbing atmosphere of the film, which is told from the perspective of the evil perpetrators; supposedly, this is a shorter version of a 3-hour long, but lost original cut - unimaginable to bear this in such a length.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Stan & Ollie (2018)
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Laurel and Hardy, the world's most famous comedy duo, attempt to reignite their film careers as they embark on what becomes their swan song.
A melancholy, at times even sad rendering of the duo's final tour together projects the Laurel & Hardy antagonism that worked so well for their comedy onto the their true-life relationship; very well made with good period detail, and Coogan and Reilly are nearly perfect personifying Stan and Ollie.
Monday, March 21, 2022
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Apollo 18 (2011)
Decades-old found footage from NASA's abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where three American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon.
OK sci-fi horror
with a rather standard plot, but made more interesting with its
"found-footage" approach; unfortunately, the existence of the "aliens"
is not much explained.
Maltin**: "Plodding sci-fi thriller attempts to inject fresh life into familiar scenario...by mimicking the "found footage" semidocumentary approach...Viewers old enough to have watched original Apollo space flights on black-and-white TV may be mildly amused by moments of visual verisimilitude. Overall, though, entire production comes off as little more than a modestly clever stunt."
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