“The House Is Black”Forough Farrokhzad Forough Farrokhzad was only 27 years old when she made this poetic 22-minute documentary about an Iranian leper colony. She displays a radical empathy in her engagement of her subjects, who she shows going about daily tasks, receiving treatment, and...
is what the members of Haikyu's high school volleyball team say to each other whenever they lose a point, and that positivity radiates throughout the entire show, which casts volleyball as the most thrilling sport in history. Haikyu is a conventional sports anime, but tuned to perfection, wit...
So often Hollywood casts and criticizes biopic performances based on an actor’s ability to “nail” the impersonation of a well-known public figure. What’s so refreshing about Eisenberg’s “Social Network” turn is that he’s not “doing” Mark Zuckerberg — and thank goodness for that, ...
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A: When it’s a showcase for his regular associate Paul “Kevin James” Blart, Mall Cop. Though the Sandman does not show his face in this feature — a dime-store espionage flick that casts Blart as a spy novelist who stumbles into one of his own stories — his authorial finger...
For some 40 years, the only Marvel Comics hero to get the big-screen treatment was Captain America, who starred in his own surprisingly solid serial in 1944. Oddly, the serial’s Captain America isn’t Steve Rogers, it’s “Grant Gardner,” a crusading district attorney. No mention is ma...
He casts movie stars, but refuses to treat them as such, stripping them of their lines and the chance to “act,” while privileging impressionistic fragments from his own memory (plus empathy among dinosaurs!). It’s like “2001” turned inward, posing impossibly big questions. Read the ...
Though Blake Mills is known for his meticulousness as a songwriter, guitarist, and producer, “Skeleton Is Walking” ambles along like a spontaneous jam—and is better for it. Mills and jazz musician Chris Weisman’s textured guitar interplay casts an air of reflection throughout the slowly bui...
The Underside of Powercasts stones at formidable opponents: fascism (Death March), apathy (Hymn for an Average Man) and the current occupant of the White House (Animals). Still, even if the view isn’t always uplifting, Algiers never burden listeners with cynicism or a sense of inevitable ...
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