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May 20, 2025
Senior assassin wields steel in South Korean hit
The lead character in Min Kyu-dong’s gratuitously violent Pagwa (The Old Woman with the Knife) doesn’t operate the same way as most other action figures.
First and foremost she’s female and, as advertised, she’s a genuine senior rather...
May 6, 2025
Nicolas Cage battles locals in ‘The Surfer’
Nicolas Cage’s character in The Surfer, known only as The Surfer, is visiting a scenic Western Australia spot called Luna Bay with his teenage son, The Kid (played by Finn Little). The Surfer’s mission is to scout...
Apr 25, 2025
Review of ‘The Shrouds’: Keep digging
Writer-director David Cronenberg, the veteran specialist in “body horror” tales, sicker-than-thou science fiction and disturbing investigations into the latest trends in psychological torment, has recently spent his cinematic capital on things like Crimes of the Future or...
Apr 8, 2025
‘La cocina’ depicts kitchen chaos
The American dream dissolves into thin air during a rare moment of silence in Alonso Ruizpalacios’ operatic film, La cocina (The Kitchen). On a break from their gruelling jobs in a Times Square restaurant, a small group...
Apr 1, 2025
East Bay’s ‘Freaky Tales’ to tell
“These are the tales, the freaky tales / These are the tales that I tell so well”
— Lyrics from “Freaky Tales” by Too Short
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck take the title of their new film, which is...
Mar 25, 2025
Review of ‘Locked’ reveals writers’ block
As Locked opens, Eddie (played by Bill Skarsgård) has already joined the tough-shit-out-of-luck club. He’s stone broke, his car is in the shop for major repairs that he has no money to pay for, and he’s being...
Mar 18, 2025
Spy games and brand names collide in ‘Black Bag’
Let’s talk about brands, branding and being branded. Brand-name shopping, too. It’s hard to think about Steven Soderbergh’s new drama Black Bag without exploring the implications, permutations and curlicues of that term.
Brand-name entertainment shoppers will ostensibly be...
