In the charming locally-produced documentary “The Age of Love,” filmmaker Steven Loring follows the first-of-its-kind senior speed-dating event, held right here in Rochester. Meant exclusively for singles aged 70 to 90, the event allows 30 seniors (15 women and 15 men) to get a second chance at finding love. It’s admittedly a somewhat cutesy sounding […]
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Film Review: “The Judge”
Although in real life as we call it, most trials, even criminal trials, are deadly dull affairs, with long, tedious interrogations of witnesses, repeated inquiries about minor points, quibbles over legal minutiae, and often incomprehensible discussions of scientific or technical matters, much of it guaranteed to confuse or anaesthetize jurors. On the stage and screen, […]
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Film Review: “The Boxtrolls”
Laika, the film studio behind modern stop-motion animated classics “Coraline” and “ParaNorman,” brings yet another endlessly imaginative tale to the big screen. Based loosely on the book “Here Be Monsters” by Alan Snow, “The Boxtrolls” is a whimsically demented fable centering on the titular creatures: adorably ugly, toothy, grey-skinned beasts who dwell beneath the Dickensian […]
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Film Review: “Gone Girl”
Whether in literature or cinema, the mystery story provides an endlessly fascinating source for all kinds of narratives. In a sense, all stories, even all sentences, are mysteries of a sort, since we do not “solve” them until they end. The mystery in the new movie “Gone Girl” demonstrates some of the rich potential of […]
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Film Review: “Gone Girl”
Whether in literature or cinema, the mystery story provides an endlessly fascinating source for all kinds of narratives. In a sense, all stories, even all sentences, are mysteries of a sort, since we do not “solve” them until they end. The mystery in the new movie “Gone Girl” demonstrates some of the rich potential of […]
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Film Review: “The Skeleton Twins”
If nothing else — and sadly, there is not much else — “The Skeleton Twins” demonstrates once again that just about every movie entered in one of those ubiquitous film festivals wins some kind of prize, and that many even win a lot of prizes. The picture arrives in this region having won a screenwriting […]
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Film Review: “Tusk”
Continuing the fascinatingly odd path Kevin Smith’s career has taken since he helped kickstart the 90’s indie movie scene with “Clerks,” the filmmaker’s latest is a horror-comedy tailor-made for those with a taste for the spectacularly bizarre. The idea behind “Tusk” sprang from Smith’s mind during the taping of his popular podcast (a snippet of […]
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Film Review: “Love is Strange” and “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them”
“Love Is Strange” (R), Directed by Ira Sachs Opens Friday at the Little Theatre In Ira Sachs’ (“Keep the Lights On”) lovely, tender “Love is Strange,” Alfred Molina and John Lithgow portray George and Benjamin, a couple who, as the film begins, have finally gotten married after 39 years together. While their marriage is joyous […]
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Film Review: “A Walk Among the Tombstones”
Although the American private detective story traditionally takes place in California, especially in Los Angeles, many contemporary writers set their works in other locales, some of them actually quite implausible. A surprising number of stories these days deal with small towns, which hardly abound in enough murders, missing persons, stolen jewels, and similar problems to […]
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Film Reviews: “My Old Lady” and “The Hundred-Foot Journey”
“My Old Lady” (PG-13), Directed by Israel Horovitz Opens Friday at the Little Theatre and Pittsford Cinema Making his filmmaking debut at the age of 75, “My Old Lady” finds veteran playwright Israel Horovitz adapting from his own 2002 play. Kevin Kline plays Mathias (though he prefers to go by Jim), an uptight New Yorker […]
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Film Review: “The Drop”
Aside from its value as a work in and of itself, “The Drop,” rather like another fine recent movie, “A Most Wanted Man,” constitutes a kind of mixed blessing. It presents audiences once again with the ambiguous, bittersweet gift of an opportunity to witness the last performance of a talented, accomplished performer, in this instance […]
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Film Review: “The Trip to Italy”
A follow-up, of sorts, to 2010’s “The Trip,” British comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon hit the road again for “The Trip to Italy.”
