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Flix: “We Are the Best!” takes creative spin on punk rock

Flix is a weekly series that reviews a movie available on Netflix. This week, I review the 2013...

0 Comment / January 28, 2015

Review: The Decemberists deliver mediocre effort

Four years after their last album, "The King Is Dead," The Decemberists have returned with their...

0 Comment / January 28, 2015

Flix: “The Double” turns literature into a thriller

Flix is a weekly series that reviews a movie available on Netflix. This week,...

0 Comment / January 21, 2015

Review: “Birdman” an unconventional Oscar front-runner

Perhaps the most self-aware and innovative of Oscar contenders this year, “Birdman or (The Unexpected...

0 Comment / January 21, 2015

Flix: “Blue Ruin” reinvents the thriller genre

Flix is a weekly series that reviews a movie available on Netflix. This week, I review the 2014 film...

1 Comment / January 15, 2015

‘Big Hero 6’ falls short of memorability

"Big Hero 6” is set in the future, in a hybrid city of Tokyo and San Francisco called “San Fransokyo.”...

0 Comment / November 13, 2014

Flix: ‘Prince Avalanche’ a clever dramedy

Flix is a weekly series that reviews a movie available on Netflix. This week, I review the 2013 film...

0 Comment / November 13, 2014

Flix: ‘Crystal Fairy & and the Magical Cactus’ a strange delight

Flix is a weekly series that reviews a movie available on Netflix. This week, I review the 2013 film...

0 Comment / November 5, 2014

‘Nightcrawler’ resonant cautionary tale for millennials

 As college students in 2014, the job market outside our cozy dorm room windows looks a whole lot like...

0 Comment / November 5, 2014

‘The Book of Life’ a captivating visual masterpiece

There is a stunningly-animated film about the Day of the Dead directed by an Emmy-Award-winning Mexican...

0 Comment / October 29, 2014

Flix: ‘In a World…’ an insightful

Flix is a weekly series that reviews a movie available on Netflix. This week, I review the 2013 film...

0 Comment / October 29, 2014

Flix: “π” an exhilarating thriller

Flix is a weekly series that reviews a movie available on Netflix. This week, I review the 1998 film...

0 Comment / October 22, 2014

Slash’s “World on Fire” reinvents classic rock

With this follow-up to 2012 “Apocalyptic Love,” Slash and his cohorts have put together a staggering...

0 Comment / October 22, 2014

“Gotham” imaginative look into pre-Batman crime

Christopher Nolan’s reign of shadowed superhero aesthetics has mercifully come to an end. What goes...

0 Comment / October 22, 2014

Flix: ‘Submarine’ a coming-of-age, nostalgic delight

Flix is a weekly series that reviews a movie available on Netflix. This week, I review the 2010 film...

0 Comment / October 16, 2014

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