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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | David Rooney |Jon Frosch |Lovia Gyarkye |Sheri Linden |Leslie Felperin
Generate Key TakeawaysCaught by the TidesJia Zhang-ke’s elegiac and poetic feature revolves around a woman (Zhao Tao) who journeys from her home in a fading industrial city in search of a vanished former boyfriend.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | David Rooney |Jon Frosch |Lovia Gyarkye |Sheri Linden |Leslie Felperin
4 hours ago"The phone appears to be a reskinned version of a Chinese phone." Donald Trump's newly announced Trump Mobile network and T1 smartphone have been roundly mocked by Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert, and in the video above Jimmy Kimmel joins in. "Their website was a mess from the get-go. When they …
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Leslie Felperin
Taking the mickey … David Vaughn in I Heart WilliePhotograph: Publicity imageIt seems “public domain horror movies” are now a proper thing: a cinematic subgenre of gory, uber-schlocky fearmongering that revolves around a well-known intellectual property, usually from the realm of children’s entertainment, whose copyright has expired.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Leslie Felperin
Here is a cheap-ass knockoff of Ocean’s Eleven starring John Travolta that makes the Soderbergh film look like something by Andrei Tarkovsky or Ingmar Bergman. High Rollers is a heart-slowing work of staggering stupidity and charmlessness, ineptly made and quite frankly dull except when its flaws become so egregious you can’t help but guffaw.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Leslie Felperin
This low-budget but reasonably competent swords and sorcery yarn is the sixth instalment in a series of Mythica films that goes back to 2014. It seems they were first bankrolled partly by crowdfunding, and then presumably kept going by the production’s low overheads and straight-to-retail distribution to an audience that clearly grooves to quasi-Tolkienian, Dungeons and Dragons-style quests featuring a motley band (there is usually an elf or dwarf).
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Leslie Felperin
Something has definitely gone awry when the best acting in a film comes from a little kid playing a supporting vampire. In this case, it’s Poppie Jae Hughes, having the time of her life hissing and snarling, caked in makeup and rocking some evil looking prosthetic fangs. Perhaps Hughes outclasses the adults so easily because her role doesn’t require much in the way of dialogue.
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Leslie Felperin
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Leslie Felperin
Please forgive the stereotyping, but this film is so irreducibly French that watching it may cause viewers to develop uncontrollable urges to drink red wine, consume serious literature and silent comedies, and on occasion shrug theatrically while uttering the words “C’est la vie!” All of these activities – plus some even more typecast French antics, such as having extramarital affairs and discussing feelings in depth – are enjoyed by the characters here, a typically bourgeois ensemble that...
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4 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Leslie Felperin
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Leslie Felperin
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