BOY KILLS WORLD gets a little too goofy but always kicks ass
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
The main problem with Boy Kills World is that we no longer live in a world where studios crank out a half-dozen movies like it every month.
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
The main problem with Boy Kills World is that we no longer live in a world where studios crank out a half-dozen movies like it every month.
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
I felt like I had watched somebody use their loved one's death to sell supplements. It hurt. It'll hurt for a while.
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
Enter the Clones of Bruce is a hugely fun celebration of the genuinely strange movies that little studios slapped together in the years after Bruce Lee died and the kung fu throne was, sadly, vacant.
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
Indistinguishable from the propaganda it thinks it's tittering at, like a clown making fun of the person he sees in a mirror.
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
October 2021 to March 2022. That's when director Morgan Jon Fox filmed The Hobby, a new documentary about the business of trading cards, accidentally catching a market most of us never think about at a startling peak.
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
The Seeding looks and feels like exploitation, especially that early Wes Craven exploitation, and it's a relief
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
Laced is a small crime drama with a simple premise, where things start bad and get worse, which is one of my favorite kinds of movie.
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
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Time Bomb Y2K, a new documentary made up primarily of news and home video footage, opens in 1999, with a very smug man sitting in some hills, saying that if we lose technology, society will return “to dust.”
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
I loved these (and so many more) films this year. Hot damn. Thank god for art.
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
Subject, the new film from Camilla Hall and Jennifer Tiexiera, asks those questions about the ways documentaries (and, often implicitly, audiences) treat their stars.
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
To say this is a hard watch is to understate the emotional wreck you become watching a family discuss the ways they think they failed each other.
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The Royal Hotel, Kitty Green's follow-up to The Assistant, is an aesthetic 180. Parts are funny. But Green is still ready to hold your head under the water at every available moment.
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Growing up as a fan of The Muppets (especially The Great Muppet Caper and the 90s literary adaptations) spurred me to seek out other works by Jim Henson, namely The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
Punch-Drunk Love is the film that made people realize Sandler can act, to the point that it's the only thing anybody says about this movie.
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
Some movies have bad timing or they're marketed poorly, but there is no way The Hudsucker Proxy was ever going to be a hit
by Alex Rudolph, Contributor
Squaring the Circle: it's about Hipgnosis' complicated work, told in uncomplicated terms.
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
My worst enemy can lose some finger skin. They'll be fine. I just don't want anybody to have to watch Eight Heads In A Duffel Bag.
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
Doug Liman and screenwriter John August made a popcorn movie that insists upon nothing but joy.
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
There's the version of this movie that exists-- an okay film in the post-Tarantino wave with some great action-- and there's the movie in McQuarrie's head-- a meditation on violence and betrayal that's a little more rough than it needed to be. I