Art's Cinema Annex
Movies that aren't 4 stars or above; some could be bad.
Sunday, April 29, 2018
The Assassin (2015)
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☆ ☆ ☆ ½ The Assassin (2015) – H.-H. Hou Absolutely beautiful to look at, with an impressively subtle use of colour (layered gauzy...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
In Which We Serve (1942)
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☆ ☆ ☆ ½ In Which We Serve (1942) – N. Coward & D. Lean Entertaining WWII propaganda piece that shows the Brits keeping a sti...
Saturday, April 21, 2018
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
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☆ ☆ ½ The Andromeda Strain (1971) – R. Wise Perhaps in 1971, soon after the Moon landing, this was astounding. Just thinking abo...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Cold in July (2014)
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☆ ☆ ☆ Cold in July (2014) – J. Mickle I saw this on a list of recent “neo-noirs” and checked it out, despite the DVD box looking (...
Monday, April 16, 2018
The Lost City of Z (2016)
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☆ ☆ ☆ The Lost City of Z (2016) – J. Gray Although the material seems perfect for a film – an explorer travels the uncharted borde...
Friday, April 13, 2018
The 13th Letter (1951)
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☆ ☆ ☆ The 13 th Letter (1951) – O. Preminger Otto Preminger’s remake of Henri-George Clouzot’s Le Corbeau (1943) loses a lot of t...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
The Neon Demon (2016)
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☆ ½ The Neon Demon (2016) – N. W. Refn Pretentious, ponderous, puerile (OK, I stole that from Glenn Kenny in the NY Times), and ...
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