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‘The Room’: Profoundly awful, awfully profound
One of the most compellingly amusing phenomena of our ironic age is the rise of the “so-bad-it’s-good” movie. Genuinely terrible…
Movie Review
Pedestrian Drive-In combines nostalgia and a queasy romance
On Thursday, the Pedestrian Drive-In screened “Phantom Thread” as part of the Rochester Fringe Festival. The Pedestrian Drive-In was familiarly…
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Cinema classics new again at the Dryden Theater
The Dryden Theater, the in-house cinema of the George Eastman Museum, specializes in presenting movies, old and new, in the…
CT Recommends
CT Recommends: the satire of Armando Iannucci
Nobody’s quite sure what links terror and comedy, but most people know that the link exists. After all, what are…
Movie Review
What Netflix’s ‘Ghoul’ tells us about the future of film
Despite its marketing material, Netflix’s new miniseries “Ghoul” is not horror. It is, however, everything else. Where do I start…
Movie Review
Our favorite summer flicks
The summer of 2018 contained many memorable movie releases. We picked a few favorites. 'Incredibles 2' Legendary animation director Brad…
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‘Avengers: Infinity War’ — When the trailer’s better than the movie
My relationship with the Marvel Cinematic Universe is casual, at best. I engage with it a couple of times in a given year. But like most one-night stands, the MCU’s residue has lingered beyond a few hours.
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In student VR film, see sexual harassment up close and personal
Visitors slipped on headsets last Wednesday and found themselves transported into the college life of a young woman in “Through…
Spring Porn
Spring porn spoofs and nauseates
I’m too sober for this. That was my prevailing thought as I sat through the midnight screening of “Suicide Squad…
Best Picture
And the Best Picture Oscar nominees are…
We asked different writers to review the Academy Award Best Picture nominees. These are their responses. Luis Nova| Columnist 'Three…