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Best movies of 2024: I saw the cinema glow (and saw myself in the process)
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Best movies of 2024: I saw the cinema glow (and saw myself in the process)

There is an early moment in writer-director Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw the TV Glow that permanently burned itself into my psyche. Questioning seventh-grader Owen (Ian Foreman) is participating in one of those gym exercises where the entire class whips

Bland "Kraven" competently goes through the comic book antihero motions
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Bland "Kraven" competently goes through the comic book antihero motions

The good news about Sony's latest attempt to transform one of its Spider-Man rogue's gallery of villains, Kraven (the Hunter), into a viable cinematic antihero is that the finished film isn't that bad. The problem is, it's not that good either.

Creatively imaginative "Lady Like" bio drags Lady Camden into the spotlight
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Creatively imaginative "Lady Like" bio drags Lady Camden into the spotlight

The underdog documentary Lady Like makes several interesting creative choices throughout its brief 87-minute running time. This helps ground the biographical look at the life and times of RuPaul's Drag Race season 14 runner-up Lady Camden

Getting there together — chatting about Disney's Moana 2 with producer Christina Chen and actor Hualalai Chung
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Getting there together — chatting about Disney's Moana 2 with producer Christina Chen and actor Hualalai Chung

With the sequel's Thanksgiving holiday release on the horizon, I sat down with Moana 2 producer Christina Chen and actor Hualālai Chung on the Space Needle's observation deck to chat about the film.

Rambunctious Queer is an ejaculatory descent into the humanistic unknown
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Rambunctious Queer is an ejaculatory descent into the humanistic unknown

Be that as it may, I have not read Burroughs' unfinished, semiautobiographical Queer, published in 1985 but written between 1951 and 1953. After watching Luca Guadagnino's disquietingly rambunctious film adaptation, I feel compelled to read it.

Ambitiously magical Wicked: Part One defies cinematic gravity
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Ambitiously magical Wicked: Part One defies cinematic gravity

It's taken over two decades for the popular ? "You're gonna be pop-u-LAR!" ? Broadway musical sensation Wicked to transition from stage to screen.

Bob Guccione's "Caligula": Producer Thomas Negovan talks madness, maleness, and mandated male members
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Bob Guccione's "Caligula": Producer Thomas Negovan talks madness, maleness, and mandated male members

Masterminded by Penthouse doyen Bob Guccione, written by internationally renowned Gay scribe Gore Vidal, and directed by sexploitationist Tinto Brass, 1980's Caligula rapidly became the most expensive independent production in cinema history

Cinema is a comfy loveseat and then you move: Grand Illusion Executive Director Brian Alter on the U District theater's rich cultural history and impending relocation
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Cinema is a comfy loveseat and then you move: Grand Illusion Executive Director Brian Alter on the U District theater's rich cultural history and impending relocation

Make no mistake, The Grand Illusion is a Seattle landmark, a one-of-a-kind theater that's entirely volunteer run and celebrates cinema of all types and persuasions from around the globe. There's no other venue quite like it anywhere.

Donald Trump and Roy Cohn forge a profanely ephemeral alliance in The Apprentice
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Donald Trump and Roy Cohn forge a profanely ephemeral alliance in The Apprentice

Maybe it's appropriate that "The Apprentice" director Ali Abbasi (Border) has made something so perplexingly frustrating, yet still aggravatingly mesmerizing, out of the relationship between young Donald Trump and firebrand lawyer Roy Cohn.

Unapologetically repugnant (and ruthless) Terrifier 3 fills its holiday stocking with gore
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Unapologetically repugnant (and ruthless) Terrifier 3 fills its holiday stocking with gore

With Terrifier 3, writer and director Damien Leone takes Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) fully into loopily insane, Evil Dead 2 anything-goes territory.

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