Jacob Oller
Film Editor at The A.V. Club
Film Editor @TheAVClub // Video Game Movie Expert // Southerner in Chicago
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2 weeks ago |
avclub.com | Jacob Oller
What Marielle Knows is a high-concept German family dramedy right out of Black Mirror: A family’s young daughter (Laeni Geiseler) gets slapped by her friend at school and suddenly knows everything her parents get up to during the day. The film then goes to silly, horny places as these parents—Julia (Julia Jentsch) and Tobias (Felix Kramer), both great—navigate all their private moments with the threat of an omniscient child watching over them.
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2 weeks ago |
avclub.com | Jacob Oller
But there’s little to cling to at Saint Joseph’s, the Iowan church where, about a year before a crashing stock market threw the country into the Great Depression, Schmidt was exorcized for months. Though the “based on a true story” angle is played up by the film, it explores few of the more sensational aspects of the exorcism, like how the final session was a marathon that lasted for over a week.
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2 weeks ago |
avclub.com | Jacob Oller
One doesn’t come to a Sam Peckinpah for the good vibes. Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia sees the acclaimed Western filmmaker at his most grim, an oddball Warren Oates road movie masquerading as a hunt-’em-down bounty quest.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Jacob Oller
12 hours agoA relatively inexpensive OLED TV, Sony’s disc-based PS5, and Anker’s lil’ portable battery make up today’s best deals. Panasonic may not be as well-known in the US for its TVs as it is in other parts of the globe, but that’s starting to change. The company has a solid lineup of high-end TVs that are …
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2 weeks ago |
avclub.com | Jacob Oller
Despite being partially set on Mars, Lost In Starlight is about space travel like rom-coms from a certain era are about architecture or magazine columns. Though its interplanetary ambitions and soft sci-fi setting allow writer-director Han Ji-won (The Summer) and her animation team to place their familiar love story in a world with a little more visual imagination, this is still the story of a guy and a girl meeting cute, falling for each other, facing a rift, and overcoming their fears.
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