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[Fantasia Review] Big Ass Spider!

The feat of articulating what it is exactly that actually separates Big Ass Spider! from recent SyFy channel monster mockbusters like Atlantic Rim or the tired ...

[Review] The To Do List

Above all, the To Do List announces the arrival of Aubrey Plaza, movie star, with a role that takes full advantage of the awkward persona she's now best-known f...

[Review] The Time Being

The life of an artist is often pigeonholed into some lofty, depression-laden existence built upon selfish ambitions and creative genius leaving no room for anyt...

Ranking the Films of Woody Allen: From ‘Tiger Lilly’ to ‘Blue Jasmine’

With his go-to white-on-black Windsor typeface (in use since 1977), there's particular solace to be found when one enters the latest film from Woody Allen. Here is a filmmaker who, year after year (for nearly 50 years), churns out (mostly) quality work, with his latest effort Blue Jasmine managing to be one of his most perceptive entries in some time. In honor of his upcoming Cate Blanchett-led drama, I've combed through his entire filmography, revisiting classics and going through a handful of features I've previously never encountered....

[Fantasia Review] The Dirties

If the found-footage concept relies on the belief that hand-held images will instantly signal reality, then it’s refreshing that The Dirties has the intelligenc...

[Fantasia Review] Lesson of the Evil

Is it possible for images to swallow each other whole? Meaning a process in which each progressive striking composition not just tops the other, but rather summ...

[Review] The Wolverine

Fox seems to be at a crossroads with its X-Men franchise, gearing up for something genuinely interesting with X-Men: Days of Future Past and moving beyond what ...