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Now Playing: “Born to Be Blue”
Mallory Andrews reviews the new Chet Baker biopic "Born to be Blue."
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“Sinister 2” Is Numbing Instead of Frightening
An old house, precocious children, ghosts, and a troubled past haunting a family. At first glance and on paper, Ciarán Foy’s Sinister 2, the haphazard and poorly written sequel to the focused and contrastingly minimal horror flick Sinister (2012), has all the ...
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“Good Kill”
Years go by, decades end, cultures change, and yet no matter the place and time, human beings constantly dream up new, horrible ways to kill one another. In the late 1600s, Sweden gave us the howitzer. In 1836, Samuel Colt invented the revolver and ushered in ...
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Ethan Hawke’s Patient Journey
In Seymour: An Introduction, Ethan Hawke’s first attempt at making a documentary, pianist Seymour Bernstein proves to be an affably candid subject, sharing the story of his long life and genius-level talent. But a more subtextual question can’t help but hover ...
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“Seymour: An Introduction”
Mild-mannered octogenarian Seymour Bernstein is considered a New York legend among the few who know him. Decades earlier, the once-promising musician gave up a calling as a concert pianist due to crippling performance anxiety and became a renowned piano teache...
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Time After TIme: Looking Back at “Before Sunrise”
When Peter Bogdanovich interviewed Jimmy Stewart, Stewart told a story about a random guy who once told him, "You did this thing in a movie where you read a poem once … That was good." Stewart realized that the guy was talking about a movie that came out in 19...
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“Predestination”
On an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the results of a temporal anomaly puts one of the main cast face-to-face with an attractive woman he believes could be one of his maternal ancestors. The thought hits him: what if he was destined to travel back in t...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 172: ‘Dead Poets Society’
Happy early Thanksgiving, folks. On this week's episode of Mousterpiece Cinema, we're thankfully not talking about a cinematic turkey; we;re going back to school with the 1989 film Dead Poets Society, starring the late Robin Williams. Gabe and Josh are joined ...
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2014 Gotham Awards Announced
The Gotham Awards are the earliest ceremony in awards season, and rather than focus on the some of the big-hitters later on in the year, they hold up some of the indie darlings already released in the year. Additionally, the Gotham nominators also recognize th...
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Weekend Box Office: “Apes” Rise
After a lackluster Fourth of July at the movies, things were pretty much back to normal this weekend. The big winner was the latest in Fox's Ape franchise, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which took in $73 million over the three-day period. That's well above t...
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