Part Spielbergian adventure, part environmentalist fable, and part barbed anti-corporate satire, “Okja” — the latest from South Korean director Bong Joon-Ho (“Snowpiercer”) — is the story of a young girl named Mija (a wonderful An Seo Hyun) and her best friend, a massive, genetically engineered pig named Okja. Okja is the result of the Mirando […]
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Film review: “A Bigger Splash”
Italian director Luca Guadagnino’s “A Bigger Splash” is a feast for the senses — one whose seductive pleasures can barely conceal the dark heart that beats underneath. Based loosely on Jacques Deray’s 1969 film “La Piscine” — and using a summery color palette lifted from the David Hockney painting with which it shares a name […]
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Film Review: “Snowpiercer”
The concept of the apocalypse and especially its aftermath never ceases to fascinate science fiction writers and filmmakers. Whether it comes with a bang or a whimper, the end of the world makes for exciting cinema, but the day after doomsday provides the most promising subject for literature and film. Writers and directors employ a […]
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“Only Lovers Left Alive”
Leave it to Jim Jarmusch, the director who gave film audiences the “psychedelic western,” 1995’s “Dead Man,” and the gangster/samurai hybrid, “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai,” to find a way to put his own unique stamp on that most trendy of cinematic monsters: the vampire. In “Only Lovers Left Alive,” Jarmusch finds a […]
