Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Brings Back the Fedora, the Whip and (Most of) the Adventure of Cinema’s Favorite Archeologist

In case you hadn’t been keeping score, this fifth installment in the Indiana Jones franchise is the first to be made since Lucasfilm was purchased by Disney in 2012. While […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Though Rambling and a Bit Shallow, the Latest Fantastic Beasts Nevertheless Gives Wizards an Entertaining Adventure

I’ve never read a Harry Potter book in my life, but I had no problem following and fully enjoying the film series over the course of many years. But what I […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Danish Revenge Thriller Riders of Justice Balances Action, Relationships and Mads Mikkelsen’s Characteristic Intensity

Riders of Justice

Although he’s made his living primarily as a writer, Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen has made a handful of really bizarre and mind-bending films (The Green Butchers, Adam’s Apple, Men […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: After Production Delays, Chaos Walking Begins a Sci-Fi Trilogy that May Not Be Worth Finishing

Chaos Walking

One of the things I intensely dislike about the art of watching films in this century is how much it’s possible to know about a film before seeing an actual […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Another Round Deftly Explores the Fine, Slightly Drunk Line Between Youth and Aging, Meaning and Irrelevance

Another Round

There was a time in my life when I was obsessed with Danish cinema; it began in the late 1990s, when the Dogme 95 movement began, but it lasted well […]

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Game, Games & Tech, Review

Review: Hideo Kojima Delivers With Death Stranding

I have a confession: I’ve never really played a Hideo Kojima game. Silent Hill always looked like the type of game I’d play, but I never got around to the […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: After the Wedding Remake is No Match for Oscar-Nominated Original

After the Wedding

A film like After the Wedding offers so much promise. An English-language remake of the 2007 Academy Award nominee of the same name (that one written and directed by Susanne Bier), […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review, Uncategorized

Review: Mads Mikkelsen Faces a Test of Endurance in Arctic

Arctic

When Danish acting powerhouse Mads Mikkelsen showed up for an extended cameo in last year’s Van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate as a priest providing comfort and advice to the […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: At Eternity’s Gate Sends Us Into Vincent van Gogh’s Artistic Mind

At Eternity's Gate

Biopics about the painter Vincent van Gogh are so plentiful—including last year’s beautifully animated work Loving Vincent—they are almost their own genre, but I’m not sure an actual, established artist […]

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