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Tim Basaraba – The last thing I want to do is ruin your chances at optimum immersion with a film like Triangle of Sadness. The shock that surrounds the transition between scenes is what buoys this rough ride throughout. Just when I’d had enough heavy-handed lessons on the inequities of class structure, director Östlund surprised me with laughter, awe and even revulsion.
Tim Basaraba – 36 years is a long time. Things change, people change. Once the money is all tallied up, though, it looks like American filmgoers’ tastes haven’t changed all that much.
Tim Basaraba – Over the last few years, my theater ritual has included getting the middle seat in the back row. It started as way to limit my exposure to people coughing behind me but turned out to provide an interesting vantage point for gaining new perspective on the American theatre going experience.
Oh, January. You’re the saddest of months for film releases. The month when studios unload the projects they don’t care about with little or no marketing support. Poor January. January 2023 doesn’t need our sympathy, though, because the year’s first film is a fun, entertaining and utterly ridiculous horror flick about a child’s AI doll coming to life and killing people.
Peter Cameron – Life almost never gives us what we want. It bitters our hearts. We stuff those bitter hearts into cities and towns and, with The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh stuffs them onto an island in the Irish Sea.
