“Travolta and Cage have made more bad films than most stars of their stature, but the lineup Judge put together contains one cultural phenomenon after another. Saturday Night Fever, Moonstruck, Grease, Valley Girl, Raising Arizona and Pulp Fiction have become part of our shared pop consciousness. They’re movies you feel like you’ve seen even if you haven’t.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 03/14/2022
“In a genre where women were subject to all sorts of abuse, she was a fox who fought back. But what made her even more fun to watch is how much she looked like she was enjoying it. With that crooked curl of her naughty smile, Pam Grier always seemed to be having an even better time than you were watching her. It’s why crushes on her are still so contagious.” – Crooked Marquee, 03/04/2022
“A darker, even grittier reboot of many already dark and gritty reboots, The Batman is seriously serious business, sorely lacking in levity or light switches. This very special episode of CSI: Gotham tries to mimic all the moves from David Fincher’s Seven, but has more in common with junky ‘90s knockoffs like The Bone Collector and Kiss The Girls.” – North Shore Movies, 03/03/2022
“Is Sebastian Stan the dullest actor working today? Director Mimi Cave’s Sundance selection is another attempt to play against the actor’s blandly handsome, TV doctor looks, but the film feels more like an exercise than anything else. It’s one of those midnight movies for festival audiences to talk about over breakfast and then forget about before lunch.” – North Shore Movies, 03/03/2022
“Often called the Thinking Man’s Sex Symbol, Vitti was less ‘va-va-voom’ in her appeal than Italian starlets of the era like Loren or Magnani. High cheekbones and a patrician air made her the perfect frontwoman for Antonioni’s adrift elite: absurdly wealthy, spiritually bankrupt wanderers who have everything and are slow to realize how little that really is.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 03/01/2022
“Paying little lip service to genre conventions, Mann’s electrifying, experimental cyber-thriller is an almost abstract symphony of sound and color smeared across the screen in crackling, corrupted digital cinematography meant to mirror the twitchy surveillance state in which its stealthy characters operate. Blackhat is like a Stan Brakhage movie with gunfights.” – Crooked Marquee, 03/01/2022
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