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Movies Till Dawn: Bride of (Mostly) New Movies
“On the Basis of Sex” (2018, Universal Home Video/Focus Features) Tracing the arc of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) from Harvard Law School to the groundbreaking discrimination case that would pave her way to the Supreme Court. Directed and penned … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Artsploitation Films, Cohen Media Group, Film Movement, Focus Features, GKids, Kino Lorber, shout factory, Universal Home Video
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Movies Till Dawn: Revenge of (Mostly) New Movies
“Tyrel” (2018, Magnolia Home Entertainment) Tyler (Jason Mitchell, “Straight Outta Compton”) is the only African-American guest invited to a birthday celebration that grows more chaotic as the weekend wears on. Comparisons to “Get Out” are obvious, but don’t quite fit … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: TV Archaeology/Kids’ Stuff
“American Vandal: Season One” (2017, CBS Home Video/Paramount Home Video) Twenty-seven penises spray-painted on teachers’ cars earns school knucklehead Jimmy Tatro an expulsion, which prompts pals Tyler Alvarez and Griffin Gluck to launch a true-crime-styled documentary investigation. Your mileage may … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: New Year (Mostly) New Movies Part 3
“The Girl in the Spider’s Web” (2018, Sony Home Entertainment) Hard-boiled hacker Lisbeth Salander – here played by “The Crown’s” Claire Foy – is tasked with destroying software that can access to the world’s nuclear arsenal; when the sinister Spider … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: New Year, (Mostly) New Movies
“Mid90s” (2018, Lionsgate) Confident directorial debut by actor Jonah Hill, who depicts, in granular detail, middle-schooler Sunny Suljic‘s attempts to find much-needed acceptance with a group of older skateboarders. Hill has the Clinton Era cultural details down pat (especially the … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Arthouse Confidential Part II
“Gas Food Lodging” (1992, Arrow Academy) Unvarnished snapshot of life in a dead-end town, as seen through the tired eyes of a single mother (Brooke Adams) and her daughters (Fairuza Balk and Ione Skye). Getting through the day-to-day on their … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Academy, Arrow Films, GKids, Second Run, shout factory, Undercrank Productions
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Movies Till Dawn: What You Could Be Watching This Weekend (Dark Deeds and Milk Cows Edition)
“The Great Silence” (1968, Film Movement Classics) Trapped by a blizzard and preyed upon by bounty killers led by the malevolent Tigrero (Klaus Kinski), the residents of a small Utah town find an unlikely defender in Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Film Movement, GKids, Kino Lorber, Shout! Factor, Warner Archive Collection
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Movies Till Dawn: What You Could Be Watching This Weekend (Delinquent Spirits Edition)
“Pastor Paul” (2015, IndiePix) Pressed into playing the ghost of Hamlet’s father in a Ghanaian film, white mathematician Benjamin (co-writer/producer/director Jules David Bartkowski) appears to become possessed by a real spirit, and sets out to find help from both the … Continue reading
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Tagged AGFA, Arrow Video, GKids, IndiePix, Second Run, shout factory, Something Weird Video
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Movies Till Dawn: What You Could Be Watching This Week (Sweet and Sour Edition)
“Frank and the Wondercat” (2017, Brinkvision) After enduring years of emotional anorexia from his father and ex-wife, Pittsburgh native Frank Furko found something like family and happiness with a football-sized cat named Pudgie Wudgie. For nearly two decades, Furko parlayed … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, BrinkVision, GKids, Lionsgate, shout factory, Warner Archives Collection
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Movies Till Dawn: What You Could Be Watching This Weekend (Doctors, Cowboys and Presidents Edition)
“Last Flag Flying” (2017, Lionsgate) Vietnam vet Steve Carell seeks out two fellow Marines – hard-living bar owner Bryan Cranston and one-time hellraiser Laurence Fishburne, now a pastor – to assist him in traveling to Washington, D.C., where he will … Continue reading
