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Tagged with: Cinema

Movies

Screen Grabs: Get a funky zap from ‘Mr. Soul!’

Dennis Harvey -
One had hoped that the passage of over half a century from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s would provide a view of...
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Screen Grabs: Flicks for diverse takes on the forces that be

Dennis Harvey -
From globe-trotting LGBTQ narratives to social justice documentaries (and dramas), there’s a lot of diversity amongst fresh streaming releases this week—as well as some...
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Screen Grabs: Lysergicize the whimsical

Dennis Harvey -
For obvious reasons, some stylistic aspects of 1960s counterculture were slower to infiltrate Soviet bloc nations than general populations in the West. Even as...
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Screen Grabs: Fighting disability stereotypes, from Frankenstein to Rain Man

Dennis Harvey -
The #MeToo era has brought heightened attention to a lot of mis- and under-representation issues in entertainment media, not all of them related to...
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Screen Grabs: Every day they write the book

Dennis Harvey -
Writing and writers seem to be the dominant theme in this weekend’s new releases—something that is seldom a particularly exciting subject for movies, admittedly....
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Clap your hands, stomp your feet for ‘River City Drumbeat’

Pam Grady -
River City Drumbeat (playing Fri/7-August 21 at Roxie Virtual Cinema) captures a Louisville, KY, phenomenon: the River City Drum Corp, a youth brigade of African...
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Screen Grabs: Sentiment averse

Dennis Harvey -
Normally I wouldn’t bother explaining why a certain movie is not being covered in this column, but this weekend there’s a particular glut of ‘em, all...
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Movies: ‘Around the Sun’ makers bring mumblecore teachings to a château

Pam Grady -
A visit to London planted the seeds for the romantic sci-fi drama Around the Sun, which opens a run in the Roxie Virtual Cinema...
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Screen Grabs: Art imitates life

Dennis Harvey -
Social media political propaganda campaigns, sexual abuse accusations, invaded privacy—art certainly seems to be imitating life even more than usual amongst new streaming releases...
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Screen Grabs: The shift evident, women directors rise

Dennis Harvey -
While the stampede of sexual harassment and assault accusations unleashed by the #MeToo movement may make it seem the entertainment industry is a sexist...
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