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Heretic (2024)
“Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?” This quote from Edgar Allan Poe opens John Carpenter’s The Fog (1980), but is arguably more applicable to Heretic, the new horror film for Halloween 2024, starring Hugh Grant as an oddball who hosts a couple of young Mormon missionaries straight out…
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The Coffee Table (2022)
A husband, Jesus (pronounced Hey-Zeus, played by David Pareja), and wife, Maria (Estefanía de los Santos), with their newborn baby, are looking to buy a coffee table. The table is composed of two nude women in faux-gold trim supporting a glass top. Clearly, it belongs in a bachelor pad as opposed to a young couple’s…
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Tar (2022)
I just saw Tar, finally, and it was a very artful character piece. It certainly scratched my itch to see something a little artier than what’s been on offer at the multiplex of late. It’s an at times glacially placed but never uninvolving character piece about a formidable but problematic artistic personality, renowned conductor Lydia…
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Babylon (2023)
I just saw Babylon and it was solid. You could weight your papers with it. It wasn’t much more than that, though. The film that it reminded me the most of was Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, which also starred Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie as movie people whose lives intersect, but…
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