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The New Sequel
Mallory Andrews writes about ancillary films like "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" and "Rogue One" as the next step in franchising.
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“Alice Through the Looking Glass” and the Death of Matte Paintings
Josh Spiegel contrasts the lifeless visuals of Alice Through the Looking Glass to the resplendent wonders of Peter Ellenshaw's matte paintings for Disney.
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This Week on MUBI: “Dead Man”
This week in our MUBI column, Jake Cole looks at the 1995 Jim Jarmusch neo-Western.
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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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Blu-ray Review: “Into the Woods”
Into the Woods, on the stage, is a lovely and mature tale about accepting responsibility in the darkest of circumstances, filtered through some of the most memorable characters of storybook lore. The film version is less successful at communicating the message...
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“Mortdecai”
There’s just never enough ham on the buffet for Johnny Depp these days. Unfathomable as it seems for anyone who grew up watching him in the ’90s—with his indelible performances in Cry-Baby, Ed Wood, Dead Man, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas—Hollywood’s once...
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Femme Fatale Attraction: The Best of Eva Green
From getting her acting start in Bertolucci film The Dreamers, Eva Green has spent the last decade on some of Hollywood's biggest movie sets working with Ridley Scott and Robert Rodriguez to becoming a Bond girl. As her latest turn in White Bird in a Blizzard ...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 177: “Into the Woods”
As we say goodbye to 2014, friends, it's time to venture into the world of musicals on Mousterpiece Cinema once more. In fact, you might say Josh and Gabe are headed into the woods/it's time to go/we hate to leave/ we have to, though/Into the woods/it's time t...
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“Into The Woods”
Into The Woods is excellent proof that we, as a society, need to rise up and stop Rob Marshall from directing a movie ever again. This long-gestating adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical, a knowing and prescient blend of fairy tale characters from Cinder...
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First “Mortdecai” Trailer: Johnny Depp Gets Goofy…..Again
My feelings towards Johnny Depp these days is similar to the old phrase "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." He's always been drawn to quirky characters throughout his career, but the past decade has seen him grow stale when it comes to hi...
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