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04 Jun

T2 Trainspotting; Split; Prevenge and more – review

Max SchindlerUncategorized
The sequel to Trainspotting is tinged with despair, but James McAvoy’s damaged kidnapper brings out the best in M Night Shyamalan“Has it really been more than 20 years since Trainspotting?” was my first thought before watching T2 Trainspotting (Sony, 18), in accordance with the cruel law of ageing dictating that the older you get, the shorter your life seems to have been. By the time the closing credits roll, I felt differently. It may hardly show on Ewan McGregor’s face, but a palpable passage of time separates Danny Boyle’s 1996 scuzzy thunderclap of a youth movie from this slicker but slacker sequel, which…
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03 Jun

Mortuary

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Rent It Director: Howard AvedisStarring: Mary Beth McDonough, David Wysocki, Bill PaxtonYear: 1983Director Howard Avedis dappled in sexploitation cinema in the 70s, although really, who didn't. He carried the style over into the 80s, adding murder and crime and thrills, but keeping the older women with large breasts. It it's not broke don't fix it I guess; there will always be a market for b-movies with nudity and fake blood because, for some strange reason, we will always love them. Mortuary is just another in a long history of intentionally bad films, but with a few key elements that deserve…
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31 May

8-Bit Generation: The Commodore Wars

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Skip It Produced between 2010 and 2012, 8-Bit Generation's The Commodore Wars (2016) promises to deliver an inside look at the home computer explosion of the 1970s and early 1980s: one populated by the likes of Apple, Atari, Texas Instruments, and Tandy, but eventually dominated by Comm...Read the entire review Source: DVD Talk
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31 May

Mannix: The Complete Series

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Recommended Except for hazy memories of my parents watching Mannix when it was new, and, of course, Lalo Schifrin's jazzy theme music, the kind of classic TV opening that, once heard, is never forgotten. Strange then to watch the series for the first time only now, despite the high pedigree of talent involved. Mannix (1967-75) was the creation of Richard Levinson and William Link, just prior to their finding much greater and more lasting success with Columbo. It was the last hurrah of Desilu Productions before Lucille Ball sold the company lock, stock, and barrel to the adjacent Paramount Pictures…
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28 May

Toni Erdmann; The Salesman; Jackie; Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? and more

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Maren Ade’s parent-child comedy is a triumph, while Asghar Farhadi’s domestic suspense film doesn’t match his bestI am writing this week’s column in the balmy rosé-and-Nurofen glow of the Cannes film festival, where Pedro Almodóvar’s jury is about to dish out its prizes. If things go as they usually do, critics will feel alternately vindicated and perplexed by the winners, and a masterpiece or two will go entirely ignored and be just fine anyway – just ask Toni Erdmann (Soda, 15). This time last year, Maren Ade’s ingenious, elastic twist on the parent-child comedy earned the most ecstatic reviews of…
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27 May

Breastmilk

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Recommended Director: Dana Ben-AriYear: 2014For a natural experience that is older than modern, upright homo sapiens and is shared among countless species of mammal across the globe, breastfeeding carries a stigma around inside the borders of our society that is as nonsensical as it is undeniable. Whether it occurs at the hospital after birth, at work in a dark room, at a restaurant table, or at home lying comfortably on a bed, breastfeeding is constantly under judgement and scrutiny. Women are told how to feel about it, men are taught to look away from it, strangers become entitled to share…
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23 May

Broad City: Season 3

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Highly Recommended The Show: Yas, Queen. Stoners Abbi and Ilana are back at it in season 3 of the New York-set Broad City. As in the offbeat sitcom's earlier seasons, this batch of 10 episodes maintains a slacker-Seinfeld vibe of busy aimlessness while intermittently forcing its characters to confront their own selfish failings and grow up a little.Creators and stars Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer don't majorly shake up the "smoke weed and act self-absorbed" formula that has been such a winner up until this point. As ever, their characters' bulletproof friendship anchors a show that otherwise takes off in…
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21 May

Lion; Hacksaw Ridge; Sing and more – review

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Sunny Pawar is extraordinary as a child lost abroad in the heartbreaking Lion, while Mel Gibson typically makes a bloody mess of Hacksaw RidgeThere are films against which one’s head puts up a fight until, finally, the heart simply wants what it wants. Lion (eOne, PG) is one. This sweeping, sun-baked account of a life fatefully divided in childhood between two countries and families risks applying a glib National Geographic gloss to a unique existential crisis, until its sheer blunt force of feeling takes hold and the tear ducts are unlocked. Its opening stages, vividly conveying young Saroo Brierley’s accidental…
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16 May

Inside Amy Schumer: Season Four

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Recommended In 10 Words or LessThe likely end of another Comedy Central sketch successReviewer's Bias*Loves: Sketch comedyLikes: Amy Schumer, dark comedyDislikes: Gender politicsHates: The twisted interpersonal relationships between women, short-run seriesThe Story So Far...Before Amy Schumer became a household name thanks to her film Trainwreck, an assortment of advertising campaigns and her friendship with Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Schumer was a raunchy stand-up comic and the star of Inside Amy Schumer, a brilliant sketch comedy series on Comedy Central that took aim at a variety of social issues, particularly those that women face. But as with many of the network's big…
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14 May

La La Land; Manchester By the Sea; Graduation and more – review

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Damien Chazelle’s sun-drenched musical is even lovelier on second viewing, while Casey Affleck’s janitor evokes BrandoStunningly losing the best picture Oscar may turn out to be the best thing that could have happened to La La Land (Lionsgate, 12), Damien Chazelle’s sun-bright, sour-sweet satsuma of a musical. Formally released from the prestige pressure bestowed by such a title, the film that inspired such a hysterical pre-Oscar backlash as to be labelled “fascist propaganda” in certain quarters of the internet can be cherished once more as the bijou beauty it is – a film out not to change the world, but to wistfully warm…
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12 May

Bikes vs. Cars

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Recommended .or A Tale of Five Cities: Los Angeles, Sao Paolo, Copenhagen, Toronto and Bogota are the main focus of Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten's cross-continental look at the ever-present problems of humans' desire to get from Point A to Point B as easily and quickly as possible. Having spent the entire 1980s in the city of Davis, CA which is regarded as at least one of the world's bicycle capitals (another city claims that honor here) I've had drilled into my head for a long time the idea that cars are costly, consume too much energy and cause pollution while…
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11 May

Hawaii Five-O: The Complete Series

Max SchindlerUncategorized
Highly Recommended I've never been to Hawaii, alas, but if I ever did I kind of wish that, somehow, it would resemble the Hawaii of Hawaii Five-O, the 1968-1980 cop series starring Jack Lord. At the time of its cancellation it had been the longest-running police procedural show in TV history. It was innovative, unique, and at its best enormous fun. It had production values and a style that resembled big budget movies of the period, while Lord and his supporting cast, the initial line-up especially, not to mention catch phrases like "Book em, Danno" and those amazing opening titles…
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