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Pinned“Daddio” or Cabbing with Sean Penn and Dakota JohnsonThere are few cinema offerings nowadays I can personally hold forth on the veracity of. No chasing of tornados (Twisters), no imaginary…Aug 4, 2024Aug 4, 2024
“I Am Love” or Mama Sleeps with the ChefOperatic in scope, Luca Guadagnino’s mesmerizing I Am Love chronicles the carryings-on of an aristocratic Italian family from one grand…Dec 8, 2024Dec 8, 2024
“Madrid, 1987”: There’s a Girl in My TubI imagine being locked in a bathroom with a horny, septuagenarian columnist and a young female journalism student in her early twenties…Dec 3, 2024Dec 3, 2024
Girl Interrupted Again and Again: “The Fish Child,” A ReviewThe eponymous tot of The Fish Child (El niño pez) is apparently part of a Paraguayan religious belief that a little boy who lives in a lake…Nov 26, 2024Nov 26, 2024
“Small Things Like These”: Cillian Murphy Versus the Horrid Nuns of IrelandOppenheimer has been lifting weights lately, trading in the mentally taxing toting of nuclear secrets for the bit-more physically…Nov 9, 2024Nov 9, 2024
Published inCounter ArtsThe Lost John Sayles InterviewGod’s Gift to Indies becomes even more independent (with Maggie Renzi at his side)Oct 25, 20241Oct 25, 20241
Published inCounter ArtsAn ‘October Noon’ in ChileOr the 30-Peso Rebellion (NYFF62)Sep 20, 2024Sep 20, 2024