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“Under the Skin”: A Study of Predator as Prey
Warning: this post may contain spoilers for "Under the Skin."
After a second viewing of Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin, I'm comfortable calling it a masterpiece. Not just an other-worldly meditation on what it means to be human, like the more obvious them...
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Break Out Your Food Puns, First Trailer for Jon Favreau’s ‘Chef’ is Online
After making his mark on Hollywood directing with Iron Man, Iron Man 2 and Cowboys and Aliens, Jon Favreau appears to be returning to his independent roots. I would advise not watching this on an empty stomach, as there is food porn galore. A part of me can't ...
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Weekend Box Office: “Captain,” Of Course
Whenever a new Marvel movie comes out, there's not much else to talk about at the box office, as no one wants to open a movie against it and the Marvel movie plays on so many screens that it's inevitable that it claims the top prize. And so it was this weekend...
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“Under the Skin”: Extraterrestrial Earth
J. Hoberman said of Eraserhead: “[It’s] not a movie I’d drop acid for, although I would consider it a revolutionary act if someone dropped a reel of it into the middle of Star Wars.” Those comments could just as easily apply to Under the Skin. Jonathan Glazer’...
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Eerie Red-Band Trailer for Scarlett Johansson in ‘Under the Skin’
A new Red-Band trailer for Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin and looks unlike anything Scarlett Johansson has appeared in before.
Under the Skin premiered last year at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals and invoked strong reactions from those lucky eno...
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‘Her’ Is As Cold As A Computer Program
Spike Jonze's meditation on loneliness is as ugly and antiseptic as the technology it depicts.
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TIFF Review: Jonathan Glazer’s Lurid ‘Under the Skin’ Evokes A Sense of Loss
A valid alternative title for Jonathan Glazer’s belated return to feature filmmaking after 2004’s Birth could have been The Woman Who Fell to Earth. Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 Bowie vehicle The Man Who Fell to Earth presented an alien who came to Earth to save its pe...
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Movie Mettle: 5 Travel Movies To Test Your Limits
Movie Mettle is a weekly column for moviegoers with weak constitutions. Wish you had the balls to sit through the goriest of horror movies? Want to build up your resistance to weepy rom-coms? Each week we’ll give you a range of five movies that will test your ...
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