The Trip (2010): Or, Up for a Celebrity Impressions Road Trip?
It works as a buddy movie, as a "foodie" film, as a meditation on a mid-life crisis, as battle of brilliant improvisational comedians, and as a surprisingly dry and bittersweet comedy about celebrity.
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Snowpiercer (2014): A Few First-Impression Notes
Terry Gilliam's Brazil + Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Delicatessen + Peter Weir's The Truman Show + Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men + John McTiernan's Die Hard. Link those cars together and, wow, what a helter-skelter train!
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Boyhood: The Podcast!
Listen to my conversation about Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" with Christianity Today's Chief Film Critic Alissa Wilkinson and the Christ and Pop Culture Superfriends — Richard Clark and Wade Bearden.
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From the Director of “Metropolitan” and “The Last Days of Disco”
I'm excited to find, among the new Netflix original series, "The Cosmopolitans," a new series from Whit Stillman.
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