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‘Vengeance’ searches for the Deep South, finds West Texas
8/10 Night, West Texas, red solo cups litter the ground. A young woman is dragged away from a party to die, witnessed only by natural gas wells churning silently in the desert. Two thousand miles away, Old Glory catches on … Continue reading
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Tagged BJ Novak, No Country for Old Men, The Office, Vengeance, West Texas
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‘Alien: Covenant’ is everything wrong with filmmaking in 2017
5/10 Watching Alien: Covenant, it’s hard not to think about the death of cinema, as director/producer Ridley Scott recently described with a remarkable lack of self-awareness. Like the edema, back pain and noxious bad breath of advanced renal failure, the … Continue reading
The Möbius strip: ‘Hidden Figures’ repeats easily as a whole batch of new releases flops
Hidden Figures reigned again over Martin Luther King Day weekend, with Golden Globe champion and Oscar favorite La La Land storming up the charts behind it. Of the new releases, it was cheap-looking STX horror flick The Bye Bye Man that performed way over industry … Continue reading
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