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Franz Kafka’s The Trial opens on a terrifying scene: Joseph K., a mild-mannered bank clerk, wakes up one fine morning to find he’s been placed … Continue reading
It might be easier, for those of us who grew up loving Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, to view Ava DuVernay’s movie as less … Continue reading
What, exactly, is a sociopath? Surprisingly, despite its widespread use these days as a term to describe everything from U.S. presidents to office colleagues, sociopath … Continue reading
It seems like people either love superhero movies or hate them. People either spend hours talking about the lore, what’s canonical or not and the … Continue reading
If you’ve read Jeff VanderMeer’s 2014 novel Annihilation, you might view writer-director Alex Garland’s new adaptation of the story as yet another expedition into the … Continue reading
In reviewing this year’s film reviews in Eugene Weekly, we were surprised and pleased to find that we’d hit just about every big, Oscar-nominated picture — … Continue reading
Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke takes grotesque glee in poking itty-bitty holes through the thin, delusional veneer of OK-ness that barely protects us from the submerged … Continue reading
In the Italian countryside that director Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love) adores, 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) is in the middle of a summer about which … Continue reading
Certainly, the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock presides over the haunted atmosphere of Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, Phantom Thread, but Hitchcock isn’t the only cinematic … Continue reading
No question Steven Spielberg is a great director. Several times during The Post, Spielberg’s new movie about The Washington Post’s decision in 1971 to publish … Continue reading