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Monday
Oct212019

Review: The Laundromat is an entertaining swing and miss. 

by Tony Ruggio

Steven Soderbergh's fingerprints are unmistakable and unknowable simultaneously. He bounds from genre to genre, and studio to indie and back again with such regularity that he’s difficult to pin down. The only thing you can count on is that he’ll try new things and, unless he’s indulging in Ocean’s Eleven fun, and attempt to push the boundaries of what we know as cinema. That all sounds like embellishment and it is, because Soderbergh is nothing if not a bit pretentious. His newest film, The Laundromat, is a big swing aimed at uncovering the morbid, funny, and messed-up nature of the scheming that went on behind the Panama Papers scandal. He misses the mark by half an hour. It’s The Big Short if The Big Short was in a hurry to fill you in on the minutiae, or didn’t bother to impart to you the gravity of its subject matter.

The film is only ninety or so minutes long and for a topic as heady as financial con-artists around the world, and the all-seeing, all-ignoring facilitators who allowed for them, well, the world is not enough...

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Monday
Oct212019

Horror Actressing: Luiza Kosovski in "Sick Sick Sick"

by Jason Adams

Anyone who's ever seen a Horror Movie surely already realizes that this genre is a good place to see Actresses really give it their all. Whatever the reasons are that connect the female experience with cinematic trauma -- and it's not that I don't know the reasons, it's just that there are too many to list -- no other genre has spent more time rooting around in what it means to be a woman than the Horror Genre has. From Carrie White to Rosemary Woodhouse to Mother Abagail and Annie Wilkes -- you name her, she's had her Horror Movie...

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Monday
Oct212019

The costumes of “Judy”: Fantasy vs Reality

by Cláudio Alves

When dressing a real-life story, there’s always a complicated relationship going on between a designer and History. The balance of fact and fiction, raw reality and cinematic fantasy, must be achieved and thought through. Depending on the project, the scales might tip towards one or the other, but both are always dancing hand-in-hand. Such sartorial dynamics might reflect the production’s relationship with fact or even contradict that preoccupation, either supporting an idea of History or silently challenging it.

For Judy, costume designer Jany Temime helped transform Renée Zellweger into Judy Garland, a process that was much more complex than simply looking at archival material and reproducing past fashions…

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Sunday
Oct202019

Oscar Chart Updates

Every category has been slightly revised now that we've seen Irishman, The Two Popes, and more and the buzz on Bombshell is out.

UPDATED CHARTS
INDEX | PICTURE | DIRECTOR
ACTRESSACTOR | SUPP' ACTRESSSUPP' ACTOR |
SCREENPLAYS | VISUAL | SOUND |
ANIMATED & DOCUMENTARYINTERNATIONAL FEATURE 

Sunday
Oct202019

A big weekend for Parasite and The Lighthouse

by Nathaniel R

Weekend Box Office [ESTIMATES]
Oct 18th-20th
🔺 = New or Expanding / ★ = Recommended
W I D E
PLATFORM / SPECIALTY TITLES
1 🔺  MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL  $36 *new*
1 🔺 PARASITE $1.2 on 33 screens (cum. $1.8) PODCAST 
2 JOKER $29.2 (cum. $247.2) REVIEW
2 🔺 PAIN AND GLORY $463k on 67 screens (cum. $1.1) REVIEWPODCAST 

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