Every week on Cinematica - the movie podcast I co-host with Simon Werry and Kailey Carruthers - we sign-off each film with a two-word review. It’s a gag, of course,…
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I was lucky enough to get into a screening of Whit Stillman's 1998 The Last Days Of Disco at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this evening, and even though I…
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The great Michel Piccoli is the sole bright spot in Nanni Moretti's horribly muddled and dribbly Vatican fable We Have A Pope, which I complain about at greater length for…
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"You fired YOUR agent? HA! I fired MY agent!" Cheap, I know. Actually, when I filed my notice, I wrote to my editor, "Either this is a better movie, or…
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After a splendid Wellington Film Festival last year, the New Zealand International Film Festival might be forgiven for putting their feet up and taking it easy but instead they have…
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It was a mere 17 months or so ago that I waxed all delirious over at MUBI, or The Auteur's Notebook as it was called then, about what a crime…
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