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Tropes are stretched far too thin in Jason Fuchs' script that by the time the movie begins to embrace its absurdity in its third act, it's too late.
Cat Daddies Review: Paws-itive Purrspectives
An ode to fellas that love felines, the documentary Cat Daddies is a portrait of the men who can't get enough of their kitty companions.
Beast Review: The Mane Event
Idris Elba finds himself in Liam Neeson mode with Beast , a completely ridiculous adventure that will have audiences rooting for the lion.
Black Hole Films Episode 254 – CATS
Jeremy is joined by Jackie English and Marc Winegust for Cats!
The Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts: Dark, but Daring
Review of the 2022 Oscar-nominated Animated Shorts including Boxballet , Affairs of the Art , Robin Robin , Bestia , and Windshield Wiper .
The House Review: Creature Comforts
Netflix's animated anthology film The House is a must for fans of independent animation with its offbeat trio of films about home.
Interview: Director Will Sharpe on The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
That Shelf speaks to director Will Sharpe about his new feature, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
French Exit Review: Pferociously Pfunny Pfeiffer
Michelle Pfeiffer gives her best performance in years in this wry comedy.
Oscar Hindsight is 2020: What Should Have Won in Years Past?
Remember those movies that deserved to win Best Picture but didn't? The Academy is famous for making poor decisions, so we're looking back at the past decade to try to set the record straight and award the right movies and performers with Oscar gold.
The Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films Are Top Shelf
Includes links to three of the nominees!
Golden Globes: Our Picks for Who Will Win/Should Win
Our picks and predictions for Sunday's Golden Globe Awards
Cats Review: An Embarrassment for Cats, Humans, and All Involved
There's a reason Cats has been called an ”unfilmable musical”, but the music in Tom Hooper's bizarre CGI monstrosity is the least of the movie's problems.
Ladies Make Comics Too: Gemma Correll
Full disclosure: I’m a fiend for pugs. It’s for this reason (among a long list of others) that I think Gemma Correll’s comics are some of the most amazing art pieces ever.
Ladies Make Comics Too: Kate Leth
For my very first ”Ladies Make Comics Too,” meet Kate Leth; she’s a great indie artist who wishes people would stop asking (anyone, ever), ”What’s it like to be a woman in comics?”, and would love to see more mainstream comics with empowered women who aren’t objectified.
Berlinale 2011: The Future Review
Miranda July has a fascination for strangers, and how the comforts of the ordinary life perhaps become so comfortable that our reaction is to break out in rather unconventional and perhaps inadvisable ways. These themes that she explored in her first film, You and Me and Everyone We Know – the desire to find yourself through other people, and make some sort of connection – are taken to even deeper and richer heights in her new film The Future .