Twelve years later Dante, Randal, Jay, and Silent
Bob keep the funny filth spewing
Dayna Papaleo
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Blinded by the UV Rays
Local rockers release a new disc with two shows at
the Bug Jar
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Wordplay; Interkosmos
Clue in to the charming crossword documentary
and a quirky mockumentary showing at the Dryden
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Johnny Depp keeps this
engaging pirate franchise afloat
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Nacho Libre
Nacho Libre (PG), directed by Jared Hess, is playing at Canandaigua Theatres, Culver Ridge 16, Eastview 13, Geneseo Theatres, Greece Ridge 12, Henrietta 18, Pittsford Cinema, Tinseltown, and Webster 12 Since no one else seems to want to step up, I guess I’ll do it: Mexico, I’m so sorry. It’s bad enough that many politicians […]
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It’s not enough
We initially met Edward Norton about 10 years ago via his wily portrayal of Primal Fear‘s murderous altar boy, a performance which earned him his first Oscar nomination. Since then he’s played everything from a lawyer to a priest to a neo-Nazi, but his most recent film work (besides a masked appearance in last year’s […]
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Sun screens
This summer, stop feeling guilty about forgoing lovely weather in favor of an inky movie theater. Should your conscience continue to nag you to go outside and play, consider the following pro-movie rationalizations: • Movies leave us brimming with optimism and entitlement, both desirable sensations until we realize there is really no valid justification for […]
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Black, white, and candy-colored
The late director Claude Sautet was best known to modern audiences for arthouse classics like 1992’s Un Coeur en Hiver and 1995’s Nelly et M. Arnaud. But the film that put him on the cinematic map was the 1960 gangster flick ClasseTousRisques. Now restored to velvety splendor and resubtitled, ClasseTousRisques is enjoying a proper American […]
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Do you love me now?
It’s the sort of thing envisioned among whiskey-fueled dreamers at 3 a.m. but never actually attempted once the think tank sobers up: make a movie that takes the hardboiled slang perfected by wordsmiths like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler during the first half of the 20th century and crams it into the maws of modern-day […]
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The future of cinema?
Your mission this Memorial Day Weekend — should you choose to accept it — is to postpone seeing the latest big-budget lobotomathon and instead get an advance peek at the future of cinema. On Sunday, May 28, the School of Film and Animation at Rochester Institute of Technology is presenting their annual Honors Show, with […]
