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Aug
A vegetarian student craves human flesh in Julia Ducournau’s prize-winning Raw, The Sense of an Ending is a bloodless affair, and Huppert singsLast year I was on a film festival jury that wound up, after several hours of finicky deliberation, giving our top prize to Julia Ducournau’s coming-of-cannibalistic-age nightmare Raw (Universal, 18). It was, to all of us, an unexpected vote of consensus for a film that seduces through repulsion. “What have we approved?” a fellow juror asked me with a grin as we delivered our verdict. Ducournau’s debut lands on screen like a live, throbbing heart plucked from its…
13
Aug
Based loosely on the Elmore Leonard (which also spawned the 1995 movie of the same name), Nevada hitman Miles Daly (Chris O?Dowd) is in Hollywood seeking to make a career change after the estrangement from his wife and daughter (Lucy Walters and Carolyn Dodd). He runs into B-movie producer Rick Moreweather (Ray Romano) and convinces him to help him make a film.Premieres Aug 13, 2017 Source: Metacritic
11
Aug
The decision to begin dating by Sam Gardner (Keir Gilchrist), a high school senior with autism worries his overprotective mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) in this coming-of-age comedy series created by Robia Rashid.Premieres Aug 11, 2017 Source: Metacritic
10
Aug
Skip It Director: Douglas HickoxStarring: John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy GeesonYear: 1975I consider myself a fan of 70s movies, at least for someone who was born a decade later and so never had the opportunity to see them as they were meant to be seen, to love them as they came out instead of twenty years later when I had grown up enough to appreciate them. Not to be too clustering, but 70s films have a certain vibe, a dated atmosphere, a specific style that of course doesn't apply to each one, but that is apparent enough in enough of…
09
Aug
Buy Season 2 now on DVD and Blu-ray. Source: DVD + bluray
