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Film Review: “First Cow” — A Bovine Tour de Force

March 13, 2020
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Marvelously acted and directed, First Cow is a masterpiece that dramatizes how struggle and adversity are part of the human comedy.

Film Review: “Beanpole” — Hardship Rendered in Searing Color

March 1, 2020
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Beanpole is infused with a profoundly tender intimacy, interspersed with stark portrayals of pain, cruelty, and sacrifice.

Film Interview: Talking to Autumn de Wilde and Anya Taylor-Joy about “Emma.”

February 28, 2020
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A comical version of Jane Austen is coming our way via Autumn de Wilde’s Emma.

Short Fuse Podcast #25 — An Interview with Film Directors Andrew Silver & Tim Jackson

February 26, 2020
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For the second straight year, the Art Fuse podcast — Short Fuse — has been named a finalist for the Somerville Media Center’s Best Boston Free Podcast of the Year Award!

Film Review: “The Lodge” — The Horror of Indoors

February 25, 2020
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The Lodge suggests that our money, social privilege, and carefully-crafted stability are not enough to keep the wolves from the door, or to protect us from the dangers that lurk indoors.

Film Review: “Zombi Child” — Alluring Haitian-French Folk Horror

February 21, 2020
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At times, Zombi Child successfully hovers between spooky documentary and an art house coming-of-age film.

Film Review: “What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael” — Rebellion Has an Expiration Date

February 21, 2020
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Pauline Kael capitalized on counterculture snobbery, the pecking order of the oh-so enlightened.

Film Review: “Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey” — A Harlequin Feminist Manifesto

February 17, 2020
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The apocalyptic mayhem is glorious and certainly cathartic. Still, I have to ask: is this how women will rise up and take what’s ours? With violence?

Film Review: “After We Leave” — No Place Like Home

February 13, 2020
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I was blown away by how good After We Leave looks, its subtlety and plausibility and confident simplicity.

Film Review: “The Field” — Nouveau Folk Horror

February 11, 2020
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The Field is a fairly original, if slightly problematic, folk horror-tinged story.

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