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"28 Years Later" Offers More Bleak Zombie-Apocalypse Fare
The first item to clarify about 28 Years Later, within the universe of its prequel films 28 Days Later (2002) and 28 Weeks Later (2007), is that it is a…
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"Elio" Provides More Life-Lessons, This Time in Galactic Rainbows
My continuing unease with the Pixar brand is that they routinely bring me back to childhood Sunday School, a place I dreaded.
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"Mountainhead" Inconsistently Skewers Our Tech Overlords
The new Max movie is still worth thinking through and experiencing, if you can put up with overlord-behavior
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"Friendship" Mocks What It Portends to Be About
"The new movie stars Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd in a duddy buddy "comedy"
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Wes Anderson Serves Up Another Weird Dish in "The Phoenician Scheme"
His latest efforts hits theaters this weekend
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May 2025

The Wondersweep Epic "Things to Come" Stars History and Progress as Its Main Characters. How and Why?
Amazingly, it's The Biggest British Science-Fiction Film until the year 2001
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Will Hollywood Make Animated Versions of Live-Action Remakes of Animated Movies?
Exactly what will they do for new content in 2050?
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"Mission Impossible 8" Gets Old, Looks Its Age
One of the greatest movie sins these days is to believe and show that old people can do anything that young people can.
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"Fountain of Youth" is Your 2025 "National Treasure" Redux
The new movie debuts on Apple TV this weekend
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My New Book is Out, and Here's a Free Sample
And you can get the complete book for free with a modest paid subscription here
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What I Am Studying This Summer
I share my pie-in-the-sky wishes for the next three months
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Why Terry Gilliam's "The Zero Theorem" Deserves Your Consideration
I announce here that I am nearly finished with a book, an edited collection of reviews that were first posted on letterboxd.com.
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