Category: Features
Best Chris Farley Movies, From Coneheads to Wayne’s World 2
Best Chris Farley Movies, From Coneheads to Wayne’s World 2

It’s hard to believe, but Chris Farley will have been gone for 25 years come this December. Even though he is no longer with us, he is still as popular as ever, loved by fans who knew his work when…

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The Tales of Female Fury
The Tales of Female Fury

Female rage is all the rage, it seems, with films increasingly rejecting portrayals of “good”, demure women for those of unapologetically vindictive ones. At times the portrayals of these femme fatales come from the radicalization of once reticent and obedient…

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Paul Schrader Builds A Fitting Ending To His Plagued Man Trilogy [Venice]
Paul Schrader Builds A Fitting Ending To His Plagued Man Trilogy [Venice]

A man scribbles in his diary. The pages are visible by dim light, the wooden table nondescript. He takes his whisky neat and keeps his hair trimmed to military precision. On the paper, words he is unable to share, a…

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The Way of Water’s Environmentalism Is Blatant & Necessary
The Way of Water’s Environmentalism Is Blatant & Necessary

Editor's Note: The following contains Avatar: The Way of Water spoilers. While the first Avatar generated an unprecedented global box office total, earned rave reviews, and was nominated for several Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Director for James…

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Why Westworld’s Removal From HBO Max Has Some Startling Implications
Why Westworld’s Removal From HBO Max Has Some Startling Implications

To say that the Warner Bros. Discovery merger has been controversial would be an understatement. Shortly after the two entities completed their merger in the spring of 2022, the new leadership of the combined company, David Zaslav, emphasized the importance…

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Jessie Buckley Leads A Stellar Cast In Sarah Polley’s Tense Drama [Review]
Jessie Buckley Leads A Stellar Cast In Sarah Polley’s Tense Drama [Review]

TELLURIDE – The events at a secluded Mennonite colony in Bolivia during the late ‘00s spurred headlines around the world. Men from the extremely conservative religious group had raped multiple women in their community while they slept. They got away…

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How Big Will Avatar: The Way of the Water Be?
How Big Will Avatar: The Way of the Water Be?

It’s been 84 years, but Avatar: The Way of Water… is here? Might need to buy a ticket to be sure. Besides, theatres are in dire straits, and The Way of Water may be the Hail Mary pass to put…

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The Christmas Classic That Only Gets Better With Time
The Christmas Classic That Only Gets Better With Time

There is one undeniable truth: Christmas holiday fare is a dime a dozen. Specialty channels like Hallmark literally air Christmas movies in July, and amp up the output as the season draws nearer, with such titles as A Christmas Cookie…

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Is Eleven’s End The Key to Survival?
Is Eleven’s End The Key to Survival?

In Stranger Things season 4, the danger escalated greatly. Now, while we wait for the fifth and final season, fans try to figure out how everything will come to the end. Stranger Things is a fun and well-written series. It…

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Timothée Chalamet Shines In Luca Guadagnino’s Ravishing Cannibal Coming-Of-Ager [Venice]
Timothée Chalamet Shines In Luca Guadagnino’s Ravishing Cannibal Coming-Of-Ager [Venice]

To love is to want to consume someone whole, to pick their skin and sinews out of the gaps between your teeth, to swallow their pancreas and wash it all down with gulps of throat-fizzing stomach acid. Take the age-old…

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‘Spoiler Alert’ Review: Romance Story is Long on Romance, Short on Fundamentals
‘Spoiler Alert’ Review: Romance Story is Long on Romance, Short on Fundamentals

I confess that, as a film critic, I go into movies cold these days. Trailers tend to give too much away. Social media is ablaze with factoids about new projects; I don’t want to know what a movie will say…

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Sight and Sound 2022 – The Greatest Films of All Time Ranked Once Again
Sight and Sound 2022 – The Greatest Films of All Time Ranked Once Again

The most hotly anticipated update to what amounts to, as someone with every right to make such a claim once said, “the only list serious movie people take seriously”, has arrived, bearing the most uproarious shifts in its 70-year history.…

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