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Screen Grabs: Two notorious tricksters return—as does the big screen(?)

Dennis Harvey - September 3, 2020

This week sees the US release at last of what must be the most re-scheduled movie in history, Tenet. Christopher Nolan’s latest Rubik’s Cube-y...

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Screen Grabs: Docfest brings pop-punk, word nerds, Pac-Man, Sleeze Lake, more

Dennis Harvey - August 31, 2020

With no end in sight yet for a public health crisis that (thanks to the inimitable bungling of Dear Leader) only other countries are...

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

Dennis Harvey - August 28, 2020

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 - August 25, 2020

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 - August 21, 2020

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 - August 10, 2020

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 - August 6, 2020

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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Screen Grabs: You say you wanted a ‘Revolution’

Dennis Harvey - August 4, 2020

At this point even six months ago may feel like an entirely different, long-lost epoch—as, meanwhile, November 3 can’t possibly come soon enough. But...

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Screen Grabs: Sentiment averse

Dennis Harvey - July 31, 2020

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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Screen Grabs: Art imitates life

Dennis Harvey - July 28, 2020

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: Two notorious tricksters return—as does the big screen(?)

Screen Grabs: Docfest brings pop-punk, word nerds, Pac-Man, Sleeze Lake, more

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

Screen Grabs: Flicks for diverse takes on the forces that be

Screen Grabs: Lysergicize the whimsical

Screen Grabs: Fighting disability stereotypes, from Frankenstein to Rain Man

Screen Grabs: Every day they write the book

Screen Grabs: You say you wanted a ‘Revolution’

Screen Grabs: Sentiment averse

Screen Grabs: Art imitates life

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