One of the most appealing things about the films of Aardman Animations is their hand-crafted nature. From fingerprints in the modeling clay to the simple character designs, their films possess a rough-hewn, tactile quality that sets them apart from the more polished work of studios like Laika — which puts a more modern spin on […]
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Film review: ‘Kong: Skull Island’
“Kong: Skull Island” director Jordan Vogt-Roberts clearly paid attention to the criticisms leveled at Gareth Edwards, whose 2014 “Godzilla” reboot used a less-is-more approach to the massive, atomic lizard. By contrast, Vogt-Roberts gets the human-smashing, monster action going early and often. He loads his movie up with as many man-eating beasts as he can fit […]
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Film review: “I Saw the Light”
The music biopic is a genre filled with cliches. “I Saw the Light” does nothing to avoid them.
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Film Review: “Crimson Peak”
With Halloween fast approaching, it’s the time of year when everyone’s in the mood for a good scary movie. But what terrifies us on screen isn’t a one-size-fits all sort of thing, and what’s currently in vogue when it comes to horror — theaters this time of year always see a barrage of slasher thrillers, […]
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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 […]
