The just-released teaser for Ridley Scott‘s Prometheus (20th Century Fox, 6.18.12) shows the giant horseshoe-shaped space ship everyone remembers from Scott’s Alien (’79)…but no elephant-trunk space jockey.
Thumbs Down on “Pearl”Some are under an impression that Ti West‘s Pearl (A24, currently playing), the X prequel, is some kind of unusual,...
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Emily’s JourneyIt only took me five weeks to finally watch John Patton Ford‘s Emily The Criminal, which is pretty close to...
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Once More With “Empire”Yesterday I tried to elaborate upon my positive Telluride reaction to Sam Mendes‘ Empire of Light (Searchlight, 12.9). Toward the...
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RT Cooking “Woman King” Scores?At what point can The Woman King, which cost $50M to produce and another significant chunk of change to sell,...
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Don McLean’s “The Day The Academy Died”An article by a veteran Academy member has appeared on The Ankler, and it says something that The Ankler‘s Richard...
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Nightmare at Village MarketLast night I ran into an old friend who’s no longer a friend because he’s more or less turned into...
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