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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...
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...
Mar 11, 2025
The cinema of Todd Haynes defies expectations
The retrospective film series “Todd Haynes: Far from Safe,” currently up and running at the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, is now more...
Feb 4, 2025
‘I’m Still Here’ paints portrait of courage
In the opening frames of Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here, we’re introduced to the Paiva family of Rio de Janeiro, through a montage of...
Dec 25, 2024
Film Review: ‘Nosferatu’ remakes the forever fright
Vampire pics are perennial. Tales of undead bloodsuckers are probably the sturdiest horror film subgenre—outranking Frankenstein’s monster or, say, zombies—largely because of their morbid...
Dec 23, 2024
Film Review: ‘A Complete Unknown’ reveals Bob’s back pages
From its casting to its settings to its all-important musical choices, James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown is an electrifying, irresistibly engaging portrait of one...
Dec 17, 2024
‘Gladiator’ all over: Try on these sword-and-sandals epics
Regarding Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, the sequel to his Gladiator (2000): What would the world do without gladiator movies? The ones set in the...
Nov 5, 2024
Film Review: Home alone in ‘Heretic’
Hugh Grant isn’t used to being mixed up in a screenplay quite as messy and perplexing as Heretic’s is. Although, he’s undoubtedly visited the...