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All posts by Jake Cole
Spotlight on Fandor: This Week’s Picks
Fandor’s ever-increasing selection of well-curated films can be daunting for new and long-time subscribers alike, especially given the obscurity of most of the selections. With that in mind, we select five films every week available for streaming to promote fo...
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Spotlight on Fandor: This Week’s Picks
Fandor’s ever-increasing selection of well-curated films can be daunting for new and long-time subscribers alike, especially given the obscurity of most of the selections. With that in mind, we select five films every week available for streaming to promote fo...
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Spotlight on Fandor: This Week’s Picks
Fandor’s ever-increasing selection of well-curated films can be daunting for new and long-time subscribers alike, especially given the obscurity of most of the selections. With that in mind, we select five films every week available for streaming to promote fo...
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The King and the Fool: Robin Williams in “The Fisher King”
Robin Williams’s suicide last August kicked off the latest round of handwringing over the received wisdom that the funniest comedians often suffer from overwhelming depression. But as shocking as the entertainer’s death was, Williams could never really bury hi...
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Spotlight on Fandor: This Week’s Picks
Fandor’s ever-increasing selection of well-curated films can be daunting for new and long-time subscribers alike, especially given the obscurity of most of the selections. With that in mind, we select five films every week available for streaming to promote fo...
Read more →
Spotlight on Fandor: This Week’s Top Picks
Fandor’s ever-increasing selection of well-curated films can be daunting for new and long-time subscribers alike, especially given the obscurity of most of the selections. With that in mind, we select five films every week available for streaming to promote fo...
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“Total Recall” at 25
Paul Verhoeven proved his sci-fi chops with the 1987 cyberpunk masterpiece RoboCop, but that film’s grimy location shoots and dilapidated effects scarcely offered evidence that he could mount a film on the level of Total Recall. Based on Philip K. Dick’s story...
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Blu-ray Review: “Mad Max”
The innovations of Mad Max have been so thoroughly ripped off that it’s easy to insufficiently appreciate the freshness of its grim, primitive futurism. Not the first post-apocalyptic movie, George Miller’s debut nonetheless stands out for the plausibility of ...
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Blu-ray Review: “Ladyhawke”
Ladyhawke is a baffling film. It begins with Matthew Broderick’s scamp of a thief, Philippe Gaston, worming his way through the mud walls of a prison’s bowels to escape into a sewer, and it truly settles on a plot when he stumbles across two shapeshifting love...
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“Results”
Note. This review originally ran as part of our Atlanta Film Festival coverage.
Computer Chess confirmed Andrew Bujalski as one of the sharpest writers and most inventive directors in the no-budget scene, but just as Joe Swanberg went more conventional with D...
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