…for acknowledging in an ad what everyone has been saying since last May , which is that Francis Coppola‘s Megalopolis is more nuts than audacious. This is called “getting in front of the controversy, and then owning it.” This is a little bit like MGM marketing’s decision to acknowledge the fact that counter-culture viewers of 2001: A Space Odyssey were tripping (in some cases literally) through the lightshow finale, and adopting an audience-friendly slogan: “The Ultimate Trip.”
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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