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I don’t remember much from my single-digit years, but I do remember having a fondness for Paddington Bear somewhere around first or second grade. I found him easily loveable and lacking any sense of maliciousness. When “they” started putting out live action Paddington movies a decade ago, I realized I still do.
Hulks are red, Captains are Blue,
Marvel’s comeback remains long overdue.
Marvin (Ke Huy Kwan) is a simple, easy-going and enthusiastic real estate agent in Milwaukee. He has his sights set on being the best of the best and it shows in every crumb of the fresh-baked cookies he makes for potential clients and co-workers alike. Soon it comes out that Marvin has a past he’d rather forget, a long-lost love (Ariana Debose) that suddenly re-emerges and a brother (Daniel Wu) who is hoping to wrangle him back into the family business.
For his entire life, second-generation Palestinian activist Basel Adra has lived under threat of the permanent erasure of his small West Bank village in the Masafer Yatta region by the Israeli military. Declared a region of importance for training, the series of small cliffside villages has suffered multiple generations of destruction and resistance.
Sundance 2025 is in full-swing in Park City, Salt Lake City, and — beginning from January 30–February 2, 2025 — online.
In a series of single cooped-up takes Steven Soderbergh gives us a ghost’s eye view of a family slowly coming undone.
Nickel Boys (2024 | USA | 140 minutes | RaMell Ross) RaMell Ross’s exquisitely-shot close first-person perspective makes for an audacious act …
Wolf Man (2024 | USA | 103 minutes | Leigh Whannell) When director Leigh Whannell was tapped by Universal Pictures a few …
On paper, the movie hits all of my receptors. The location is gorgeous, the acting is phenomenal, and I’m not sure anyone has ever worn anything cooler in a movie than that yellow suit Tilda Swinton wears.
Musicals live and die by music and that is where Better Man succeeds. Most musicals are lucky if they have one or two show-stopping scenes. Better Man has at least five.
