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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: Wheres Walter Matthau When We Need Him?
Want to know how a city works? Start by watching 1974’s The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3,…
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SIFF Week 4: Picks and Pans
Wednesday, June 10 7 p.m., Harvard Exit The Fortress One of several films about illegal immigrants in Europe…
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Imagine That: Eddie Murphy Taps Into the Parent Market
Eddie Murphy is Evan, a Denver investment consultant with a workaholic schedule that leaves little space for 7-year-old…
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Know Your Mushrooms: Go to Uwajimaya Instead
No, don’t. And neither does this inane documentary by leftie director Ron Mann (Grass) know anything significant or…
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Sleep Dealer: Welcome to El Matrix
Science fiction easily lends itself to allegory, but while the dystopian near-future of co-writer/director Alex Rivera’s feature debut…
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Away We Go: Dave Eggers Movie Not a Work of Staggering Genius
The first original screenplay by hipster lit-world phenom Dave Eggers is, much like his 2001 memoir A Heartbreaking…
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In a Dream: Obscure Artist Gets Lost in Process
“I’m fascinated by giganticness,” reveals Santa-bearded mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar, whose compulsive, nearly half-century-long mission to create candy-colored…
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My Life in Ruins: Why Does Nia Vardalos Hate Greece?
Substitute “career” for “life” in the title of this stillborn travelogue comedy, and you’ll have a succinct verdict…
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Departures: The Surprise Oscar Winner Aint So Awful
Trailing mostly justified ill will for having trounced the critical favorite, Waltz With Bashir, for Best Foreign Film…
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PICK The Hangover: We Heart Zach Galifianakis
Old School fans, remove your earmuffs: This messy, raunchy farce about three groomsmen (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach…
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Land of the Lost: Will Ferrell Chases the Lunchbox Demo
Notwithstanding all the boomer studio executives who grow misty-eyed recollecting nerdy childhoods parked in front of the Krofft…
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SIFF: Axis of the Undead: Zombies Invade Kitsap!
How an Oscar-nominated producer and first-time director made a gore-soaked satire of post-9/11 America.
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Axis of the Undead
How an Oscar-nominated producer and first-time director made a gore-soaked satire of post-9/11 America on the Kitsap Peninsula.…
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Big Man Japan: Life Aint So Super for This Superhero
Hitoshi Matsumoto, half of a legendary Japanese comic duo, debuts as a big-screen director/star with this goof on…
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PICK Up: Pixars Winning Streak Continues
First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old coot who, with the help of…
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PICKDrag Me to Hell: Sam Raimi Makes a Welcome Return to His Roots
Often a drifting virtuoso in the years before finding his Spider-Man gig, with Drag Me to Hell director…
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PICK Summer Hours: Fresh From SIFF, a French Familys Foibles
With Summer Hours, director Olivier Assayas stages a tactical retreat from the hookers and junkies of his Boarding…
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SIFF: Children of the Revolution: Two New Docs Wrestle With the Old Hippie Idealism
After the peace movement of the ’60s, hippies became a tarnished brand, even a scary one. The alternative…