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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 272: “Doctor Strange”
Josh and Gabe are joined by Angelica Jade Bastién on this episode of Mousterpiece Cinema to discuss Marvel's "Doctor Strange."
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Now Playing: “Doctor Strange”
In this week's critic-at-large column, Mallory Andrews looks at the new Marvel movie "Doctor Strange."
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“Black Mass” Is An Ugly, Droning Nothing Of A Movie
What an ugly, droning nothing of a movie director Scott Cooper’s Black Mass turns out to be. This much-ballyhooed (at least here in Boston) take on the frankly exhausted Whitey Bulger mythos has nothing new nor particularly interesting to say, cycling through ...
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Coded Switch: “The Imitation Game” and The Queer Film
As a film, The Imitation Game is fine: a conventional, but not unenjoyable little biopic. Benedict Cumberbatch’s performance is distracting, the use of archival footage is sort of atrocious, but it’s suspenseful like a BBC movie, which is fine by me. But I’m l...
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The Theory of the Tortured Genius
There was a time when geniuses were professionals who were not only good at their jobs, but pleasant to others as well. The entrenched stereotype of geniuses once labeled them as shy outsiders or tongue-tied geeks, not arrogant narcissists. Somewhere down the ...
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“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”
Do you remember that pulse of excitement you felt when New Line and Warner Bros. first announced that they’d be adapting The Hobbit into a movie, a la The Lord of the Rings? Do you recall your anticipation as the project went, year by year, from being an idea ...
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Weekend Box Office: White “Exodus”
It was another fairly quiet December weekend at the box office, and another weekend when there was only a couple of major releases. The fact that one of these major releases was simultaneously appealing to the Christian crowd while upsetting anyone who has the...
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Weekend Box Office: Meh
The next few weekends are filled to the brim with big-budget Christmas movies and Oscar hopefuls, as is tradition in December, and that usually means that at least one weekend in early December is dead as dead can be. That was the case this weekend. With the o...
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“The Imitation Game”
“Are you paying attention?” asks a brisk voice at the start of Morten Tyldum’s slick and sophisticated World War II-era biopic The Imitation Game. The voice belongs to the genius WWII code-breaker and math prodigy Alan Turing, the magnificent subject of Graham...
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Benedict Cumberbatch to Likely Play “Doctor Strange”
I should probably stress the "possibly" in the above headline. Deadline reports that negotiations are about to begin, but that Benedict Cumberbatch is a lock otherwise for the role in Marvel's latest addition to their Avengers cinematic universe. My general re...
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