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Origin | Review

Caste of the Unjust: DuVernay’s Scholarly Drama Traces the Universal Social Ills of Hierarchy For her fifth narrative feature, Origin, Ava DuVernay takes an inventive...

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It [Video Review]

Satan’s Cheerleaders: Chaves Dowses Shallow Waters in Spiritless Witch Hunt As we continue to plunder the mixed-up files of Ed and Lorraine Warren, the infamous...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #91. Jason Reitman’s The Front Runner

The Front Runner With Tully dropping on April 20th, we look towards Jason Reitman's eight feature film as salient, dramatical potent  possible second 2018 offering...

The Commuter | Review

Herrings on a Train: Neeson Fights the Good Fight in Half-Baked Transportation Thriller You can see him in Berlin (Unknown, 2011), or see his...

The Conjuring 2 | Review

You Gotta Have Faith: Wan Advances another Franchise with Familiar Jolts After leaving behind his Insidious franchise and lending his name to the Fast...

The Judge | Review

I Never Served Time For My Father: Dobkins’ Middling Melodrama Groaning beneath the weight of its desperate grandstanding for awards consideration, David Dobkins’ The Judge...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.