Popcorn & Candy: Vital Vitali Edition
Popcorn & Candy was DCist’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Leon Vitali (Kino Lorber) FILMWORKER Leon Vitali was a...
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Popcorn & Candy was DCist’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Barry Keoghan and Evan Peters (The Orchard) AMERICAN...
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Popcorn & Candy was DCist’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. (Gunpowder & Sky) HEARTS BEAT LOUD Frank (Nick...
View ArticleSee Fashion & Finns at the Movies This Weekend
Westwood closing her show at 2007 Paris Fashion Week (Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment) WESTWOOD Iconoclasts like fashion designed Vivienne Westwood deserve more interesting documentaries than this....
View ArticlePopcorn & Candy: Distressing Damsels Edition
Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson (Magnolia Pictures) DAMSEL The Zellner brothers’ Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter was one of my favorite movies of 2015, so this self-conscious, precious genre subversion...
View ArticlePopcorn & Candy: Why is My Body Roughing It Edition
(Bleecker Street) LEAVE NO TRACE Teenaged Tom (Thomasin McKenzie) and her father Will (Ben Foster) live and thrive in the woods of the Pacific Northwest but struggle when they are forced to live in...
View ArticleThe Nun Will Make You Pray For A Better Prequel
(New Line Cinema) A priest, a nun, and a Frenchman walk into a castle. It sounds like the set-up for a bad joke; sadly, it’s the premise of the weakest entry yet in the Conjuring Cinematic Universe....
View ArticleMandy Won’t Kiss You And Stop You From Shaking
(RLJ Entertainment) Another day, another Nicolas Cage revenge movie, right? But director Panos Cosmatos, with his blood red heavy metal Mandy, delivers what has long seemed impossible. A very good...
View ArticleDigging for Treasure: The Sisters Brothers and The Song of Sway Lake
(Annapurna Pictures) We will always look for gold in them that hills. Two new releases chronicle very different journeys to that end. French director Jacques Audiard has a knack for the shaggy and...
View ArticleThe Delightful Documentary “Bathtubs Over Broadway” Remembers A Forgotten Art...
(Focus Features) “I don’t know whether this is real … or if this has been some wonderful dream!” That fevered confusion is sung with enthusiasm by a Wal-Mart employee in a fairly recent example of the...
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