“AMC might be talking a big game right now about their new Clorox procedures, but darn near every time I’ve been to one of their cinemas I spend half the movie in the lobby trying to tell somebody what’s wrong with the picture or sound. If they’re as serious about safety as they are about presentation, we’ll all be dead before anyone can spoil the surprise twists in Tenet.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 08/19/2020
“A work of great sumptuousness and visual sophistication. Few films in recent years have depicted class alienation so acutely, with Naïma and Sofia always on the ends of withering glares from servers and the hired help. The screenplay constantly complicates these characters’ loyalties to provocative ends. There’s nothing easy about it at all.“ – North Shore Movies, 08/18/2020
“Wolf’s interviews with actresses are so good you wind up wishing he’d narrowed the focus of the overcrowded film entirely onto them. From Mamie Van Doren to Shannon Elizabeth, he’s got generations of ingenues telling tales of exploitation and empowerment, and for every rightfully embittered Linda Blair there’s a proud Pam Grier.” – North Shore Movies, 08/18/2020
“Oliver Stone is a larger-than-life character who sees himself as a figure of modern myth. He’s often ridiculous but not entirely wrong. His compulsively readable new memoir Chasing The Light chronicles the first half of Stone’s career with the kind of gonzo grandeur and go-for-broke immediacy that defined his early films. I couldn’t put it down.” – North Shore Movies, 08/16/2020
“The Burnt Orange Heresy is being re-released exclusively to cinemas during a global pandemic. So in other words, if you want to see this movie you’d better be cool with killing your grandma for the privilege. The film really is a smashing entertainment but I wonder, would I be so quick to recall my favorite moments while intubated? ” – North Shore Movies, 08/07/2020
“It’s movie for our peculiar, frightening moment because it’s about how quickly our concept of normalcy can be ripped away, and what happens when the thoughts that usually only come out late at night start taking over during the day. Yet there’s also warmth that comes from sharing all these things that scare us so. This strange film is strangely comforting.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 08/06/2020
“Then sixty years old and still in fighting form, his persona honed by European superstardom and all those frambunctious live readings, Bukowski lays it on deliciously thick for Bizio. Their boozy, flirty banter is hardly comprehensive and might mystify the uninitiated, but those who grew up on his slurred words will find much to treasure here.” – North Shore Movies, 08/06/2020
“The conventionality of Crawford’s film starts to make more sense when you realize he’s covering Creem as if it were a great rock ‘n’ roll band, elevating these madmen scribblers to the same heights as the stars they chronicled and reveling in the debauched office shenanigans the way traditional music documentaries dish backstage gossip.” – North Shore Movies, 08/03/2020
“The 720-page novel follows a frustrated film critic to the end of civilization and beyond as he attempts to review a movie so massive he can’t wrap his mind around it. Like most of Kaufman’s work, it’s about the slow suffocation of solipsism, and the impossibility of engaging with art — or anything else, for that matter — when you can’t get out of your own way.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 07/31/2020
“After a harrowing first hour, the rest of the documentary is almost relentlessly upbeat. I was especially taken with tales of Robert De Niro’s generous treatment of his Heat and Machete co-star. He’s said to have told Trejo, ‘Take whatever roles they offer you, because these people have short memories,’ which explains a lot about both of their careers, I guess.” – North Shore Movies, 07/31/2020
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