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[Review] Hot Tub Time Machine 2

As far as absurdly dumb, high-concept comedies go, 2010's Hot Tub Time Machine mostly hit its mark, riffing on everything 80's while cramming in as many crude (...

[Berlin Review] 13 Minutes

On the 8th November 1939, two months after the start of World War II, the German carpenter Georg Elser (Christian Friedel) carried out an assassination attempt ...

[Review] Old Fashioned

There is conservative and then there is conservative. Old Fashioned, released as a kind of counter-programing to another very creepy picture about contractual m...

[Berlin Review] Queen of Earth

Alex Ross Perry does not deal in likeable protagonists. The brother and sister from his 2011 breakthrough The Color Wheel and the titular hero of last year’s in...

[Berlin Review] 45 Years

Andrew Haigh’s third feature as a director, 45 Years, is an excellent companion piece to its 2011 predecessor, Weekend. The latter examined the inception of a p...

[Berlin Review] Eisenstein in Guanajuato

From today’s vantage it’s difficult to believe that in the 1980's Peter Greenaway counted as one of the hippest auteurs around. After bursting onto the scene in...

[Review] Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead

Let’s face it, the world needs another zombie movie about as much as it needs another post-apocalyptic road movie. To their credit, Australian brothers Kiah and...