Film & TV
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Shadows fall and I try
Grief tech, Black Mirror bots, and memories of Nanay: she murdered the English language but was Yoda, Obi-Wan, and Darth Maul rolled into one.
The Art of War in the House of the Rising Sons
De Niro, Pacino, and a neighborhood video store ran by a balding guy we called the Caterpillar. Notes on a boyhood measured in VHS tape.
‘The Irishman’ Cometh: Robert De Niro & Al Pacino star in the last great mob epic
Martin Scorsese’s latest film traces the rise and fall of wiseguys and made men in a subtler, more sober, and contemplative manner.
Robert De Niro & Al Pacino: An afternoon with the kings of New York
First of two parts: an afternoon in New York with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, the kings of New York on Scorsese, mortality and the last great mob epic.
At home with Jun & Menchu Lopez: Where every wall is a door and the Force is always brewing
A house tour where every wall turns out to be a door, the coffee is always brewing, and the Force runs through a home in a galaxy not so far away.
Charlie Brooker: On designing dystopia
The Black Mirror creator on robot dogs, dark timelines, and holding an Emmy like ‘a medieval soldier clutching the severed head of an enemy.’
Through the looking glass of doom
‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ has five main endings and a trillion permutations. Charlie Brooker: ‘It’s all a bit like a bloody Rubik’s Cube.’
‘Black Mirror,’ mirror on the wall
Charlie Brooker returns with the year’s scariest monster already in your pocket: selfies, the Cloud, and technology gone clumsily, inadvertently evil.
Moviemov’s homage to Sergio Leone: How the East was won
Sergio Leone turned the tired cowboy movie into the Spaghetti Western, and its poncho-wearing ghost rode all the way to our own “Adobo Western.”
Cinema Purgatorio
An AB Lit student who snuck out of class returns to the dark: art films, a lost girl named Joy, and a professor finally answered.
Brocka’s brain
Nora Aunor carries her cross of water containers to Vienna: a Lino Brocka retrospective at the Künstlerhaus, unexpected and overdue.
Vienna International Film Festival pays tribute to Brocka: V for Viennale
Autumn in Vienna for the Viennale: Lars von Trier’s Antichrist, Tilda Swinton retrospectives, and Nora Aunor on screen in Lino Brocka’s Bona.
The return of the claw daddy
Hugh Jackman comes down a steel cable onto Cockatoo Island, an entrance only Stan Lee could have written, for the Wolverine press junket.
Black is the color and none is the number
Autumn in Sydney, the bluest skies, and a DVD-store crawl through gallows comedy, Cheech and Chong, and documentaries about dictators.
Little Baritan
Little Britain’s grotesques summon a cast much closer to home: the jokers and one-pair-of-trousers eccentrics of a Malabon boyhood.