This week in Austin screenings 8/14-8/20.
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While The Samurai and The Prisoner may take its time rolling through its four seasonal vignettes, there are elements that will satisfy both fans of good, Columbo-style mysteries and Kurosawa’s dives into the darker parts of the human psyche.
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a messy cacophony of sounds and images that serve as a good Spider-Man movie, but also kind of a throwaway.
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Director, David Wain’s comedy is inextricable from the people he’s surrounded himself with for over two decades, and the result are movies that feel like a group of friends getting together to do stupidly fun shit.
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This week in Austin screenings 8/7-8/13.
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If one were to pull out a theme from The Birds, it’s that of chaos.
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The achievement of the directors is no simple feat. They have presented a collection of intimate interviews about a scene that perhaps will never again get such a careful treatment.
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A meta sci-fi/giallo hybrid from the director of Drive sounds sick as hell on paper, which makes the ordeal of sitting through Her Private Hell all the more disappointing.
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Maddie’s Secret achieves the emotional magic of melodramas: the viewer unknowingly finds themselves swept up in the heightened emotions at the story’s peak, with crushing emotional consequences
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This week in Austin screenings 7/31-8/6.
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Uncaring adults, prophetic dreams of a sexual nature, carelessly unsafe sex that feels like love, blood-splattered runs from truth and plot into the unknown.
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Sitting through Ben and Arthur at a Weird Wednesday screening is its own category of transformative.
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“I love this dirty town,” Lancaster says wistfully at one point in Sweet Smell Of Success. For me, this line seems to linger over every scene in Marty Supreme, as if whispered to us by Josh Safdie about any one of his frantic characters.
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This week in Austin screenings 7/24-7/30.
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The Dink simply exists halfway between a sports movie and a comedy, never thrilling enough to be the former, never funny enough to be the latter.
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Evil Dead movies are so beloved because they’re fun. Burn seems to forget that.
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Michael sounds like a Michael Jackson fan’s dream while Man In The Mirror sounds like an incredibly lacking, unintentionally funny ode to the King of Pop, and maybe both of those things are true, but Man In The Mirror has something that Michael definitely lacked: the courage to explore its hero, warts and all.
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This week in Austin screenings 7/17-7/23.
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While this is undeniably a poor movie, it is indeed fun to watch, but not taken as a representation of Juan Piquer Simón’s finest work.
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For an adaptation of an ancient work, it is startling how much Nolan’s recontextualizing of Troy’s destruction speaks to societal failures we are living through over 2,000 years later.
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