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  • Cannes 2017: “L’amant double,” “Good Time,” “12 Days”

    - May 26, 2017
    A good time was had by all at the Cannes Film Festival today at the competition press screening of “L’Amant Double,” by French director Francois Ozon (“Swimming Pool”). Based on the novel Lives of the Twins by...
  • Binge-watching All Eight “Star Wars” Films For the 40th Anniversary

    - May 25, 2017
    With today marking the 40th Anniversary of the original “Star Wars,” there will surely be a myriad of marathons running throughout the weekend. As for myself, I had a binge-watching experience of my own last weekend...
  • Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: May 25, 2017

    - May 25, 2017
    10 NEW TO NETFLIX”All We Had””Beyond the Gates””Christine””Enemy of the State””Hunter Gatherer””Inglourious Bastards””Lovesong””The Place Beyond the Pines””School For Scoundrels””Southpaw”8 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD”Dheepan” (Criterion)As we await the winner of the 2017 Palme d’Or it may already be...
  • Cannes 2017: “Jeanette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc,” “The Summit”

    - May 25, 2017
    If you talk about the history of the Cannes awards, one of the most controversial years is still 1999, when a jury headed by David Cronenberg gave the Palme d’Or to the “Rosetta.” The movie had...
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

    - May 25, 2017
    From yo-ho-ho to yo-ho-hum.Isn’t it generous of the folks at Disney to bestow upon us, the humble ticket-buying public, another chance to contribute to star Johnny Depp’s wine-of-the-month club fund by launching a fifth voyage into...
  • Thumbnails 5/25/17

    - May 25, 2017
    Thumbnails is a roundup of brief excerpts to introduce you to articles from other websites that we found interesting and exciting. We provide links to the original sources for you to read in their entirety.—Chaz Ebert1.”Brad...
  • Cannes 2017: “The Beguiled,” “A Gentle Creature,” “Closeness”

    - May 25, 2017
    “The Beguiled” by Sofia Coppola (the Oscar-winning “Lost in Translation”) kicks off today’s competition screenings in Cannes with a film that is not a remake of the 1971 Clint Eastwood vehicle directed by Don Siegel, but...
  • “Prey” Charts Own Course Through Sci-Fi Horror Genre

    - May 25, 2017
    There was a moment about four hours into “Prey,” the new sci-fi game from Bethesda and Arkane Studios, in which I realized I had no idea what to do next. There were locked doors for which...
  • ABC’s “Dirty Dancing” Remake is Wildly Misjudged

    - May 25, 2017
    “Nobody puts Baby in a corner” is one of those iconic movie lines that makes no real sense but skates by thanks to the charisma of the man saying it (see also: “Well do ya, punk?”)....
  • Baywatch

    - May 25, 2017
    If you’re like me, you laughed at the trailers for “Baywatch,” the feature-film comedy sendup of/homage to the cheesy lifeguarding adventure TV series. That show featured quasi-hunk David Hasselhoff and bodacious babe Pamela Anderson plucking bodies...