Whether one considers him one of the freshest voices in modern cinema or just a hack Hitchcock imitator, there’s no doubt that Brian De Palma has made some of the most important movies of the last half century. Now, fellow directors Noah Baumbach (Mistress America) and Jake Paltrow (“NYPD Blue”) turn the camera around on […]
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The ‘Warcraft’ Predicament For A Non-Gamer
Warcraft has finally arrived, rolled up in an action-packed, CGI-filled spectacle that will surely have “WOW” devotees grinning from ear-to-ear. What about the non-gamers? Well, they are going to be put into quite a predicament.
‘Dark Horse’ Is The Safe And Sterile Story Of An Unlikely Racehorse
In the sports world, the Green Bay Packers get a lot of attention for being fan-owned, as the NFL team has been possessed by shareholders for nearly an entire century. The Packers may be the only community owned organization in American professional sports, but worldwide, the practice is fairly common, especially among football clubs (the […]
‘Presenting Princess Shaw’ Shows Two Sides Of The Same Creative Coin
In New Orleans, an elder care worker named Samantha Montgomery writes songs, records them acapella, and uploads them to YouTube under the internet name Princess Shaw. Half a world away in Israel, an eccentric musician named Ophir Kutiel, better known in the online world as Kutiman, scours the web for videos of musicians plying their […]
In ‘The Conjuring 2,’ James Wan Scares The Hell Out Of People
There are plenty of scares in The Conjuring 2, just not as many as viewers have grown accustomed to having in a James Wan horror movie.