Lady Bird
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Oscar season. After a dismal year at the movies, studios have saved their best for last. December boasts the most hopefuls, but November has a…
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Mother!
Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! abounds with religious metaphors as well as social commentary via cryptic symbolism impossible to definitively decipher. A mishmash of surreal imagery combines with increasingly compounding absurdity that…
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Sing
Buster Moon desperately wants to save his theater… and himself. When he was a young koala, his parents took him to see a stage production in which a sensational Suffolk…
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Manchester by the Sea
We’ve been looking forward to Manchester by the Sea since January when it took Sundance by storm. Now, 11 months later, the film is everywhere and it was worth the…
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Genius
There is a tendency, in this human nature of ours, to distill a thing into what we consider its most fundamental. Sex becomes pleasure, knowledge becomes a recitation of facts,…
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Hell or High Water
Tim is on vacation this month which paved the way for a special guest on our show: Jason Thompson. Jason joins Jon to discuss the new film Hell or High…
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Suicide Squad
Critics have not taken kindly to the DC Cinematic Universe. At three films in, the Rotten Tomatoes scores are as follows: 55% for Man of Steel, 27% for Batman v…
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St. Vincent
A Saturday night run to the local DVD machine saw my husband return with the 2014 movie St. Vincent. I didn’t hold high hopes, although seeing Bill Murray and Naomi…
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The Hateful Eight
There are few filmmakers as polarizing as Quentin Tarantino. Some celebrate him. Others revile him. Now Tarantino is back with his latest film The Hateful Eight — a fitting title…
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Crimson Peak
There’s a point in every scary movie where things fall apart and they cease to be scary. Depending on what you’re actually afraid of, that could come very quickly. In…
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