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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 films like “The Kissing Booth,” intentionally awful, campy schlock-fests like “Sharknado,” and off-kilter flicks like “A Talking Cat?” have all developed cult followings. They have thrilled film students and fans alike, and proven themselves to […]
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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 wistful, but instead of pulling into a dirt parking lot and adjusting the radio to the film’s station, headphones were provided for personalized audio, and the film itself absorbed viewers in haunting elegance. The ride […]
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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 way they were originally meant to be experienced. Seeing a movie in a theater usually involves a lot of buildup, a sort of drum-roll before the big reveal. With most movies this entails 15 minutes […]
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 the two things most people do on roller coasters? They scream and laugh. It is this relationship that Armando Iannucci, the brilliant British satirical writer and director, explores in three of his works of political […]
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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 with “Ghoul”? Do I start with its breath of sensory nuance into Indian filmmaking? Do I start with its contemporary political relevance? Or with its audacity to market itself as horror when in fact it […]
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Our favorite summer flicks
The summer of 2018 contained many memorable movie releases. We picked a few favorites. 'Incredibles 2' Legendary animation director Brad Bird (“The Iron Giant,” “Ratatouille”) returned this summer with a triumphant sequel to the fantastic, fan-favorite film “The Incredibles.” Nearly everything that was so phenomenal about the original movie returns, from the mid-century settings to […]
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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. Read More
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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 Her Eyes,” a student-made virtual reality film whose Rettner Hall premiere was accompanied by a women’s empowerment fair that day. The film opens with the main character (and the viewer) waking up in her dorm […]
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 XXX: An Axel Braun Parody” in Hoyt on Saturday. (Technically Sunday, I guess.) Why was I at a midnight porno screening? Brilliant question. It’s a brilliant question because I asked myself the same thing through […]
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 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' “Three Billboards” has been called racist for its lack of black representation and (some say) forgiveness of a racist police officer. While those are real issues in cinema as a whole, […]
