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The Elfman Cometh
It’s been nearly 38 years since Pee-wee Herman began his day accompanied by the live-action Looney Tunes sounds created by composer Danny Elfman. More than…
It’s been nearly 38 years since Pee-wee Herman began his day accompanied by the live-action Looney Tunes sounds created by composer Danny Elfman. More than…
It’s been nearly 38 years since Pee-wee Herman began his day accompanied by the live-action Looney Tunes sounds created by composer Danny Elfman. More than…
It’s been nearly 38 years since Pee-wee Herman began his day accompanied by the live-action Looney Tunes sounds created by composer Danny Elfman. More than…
It’s been nearly 38 years since Pee-wee Herman began his day accompanied by the live-action Looney Tunes sounds created by composer Danny Elfman. More than…
New Releases
Man & Witch is a long-gestating passion project for spouses Tami Stronach and Greg Steinbruner. Best known for her role as the Childlike Empress in…
The Secret Kingdom is a tribute to late-1980s kid adventure-fantasy films like The Goonies, Labyrinth and The Neverending Story — stories about kids on the…
Tonic hits about every beat you'd want from contemporary noir. Sebastian Poe (Billy Blair) is a down-on-his-luck bar pianist who loves both drinking and music,…
Fast X has two sequences explaining the motivations of Dante Reyes (Jason Momoa), the franchise’s new uber-villain. The first is an extended flashback inserting him…
As I wrote earlier this year, “senior-citizen dramedies” bewitch us with “behavior that belies the characters’ ages.” Older women flocked to 80 for Brady to…
Anu, director / co-writer Sudeshna Sen’s debut feature-length film, is a sweet coming-of-age tale about growing in the face of grief. Anu (Diya Modi) is…
Now Streaming
Wild Fire is essentially an LGBTQIA+ millennial The Big Chill — the story of one person uniting a group of friends on a revelatory, radically…
Project Dorothy is a haunted house-style thriller about a nasty ghost in the machine that wants to broaden its ghastly horizons — and the two…
Remaking beloved properties has become a generally problematic proposition. Sure, you can capitalize on a bankable name, but you risk alienating die-hards that made it…
One for All: The DJ Chris Villa Story is a relatively straightforward music documentary with a twist: The star artist, DJ Chris Villa, is a…
Available tomorrow on streaming (and coming later this month on DVD from First Run Features), The Quiet Epidemic is an enraging, exhaustive and entirely terrifying…
Streaming Friday on Netflix, The Mother constitutes Jennifer Lopez’s application to the AARP ass-stomper academy. She plays a crack military sniper turned gun-runner and eventual…