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I’ve skirted AMC’s “Breaking Bad” since it came out in 2008. Previews around various streaming services and clips—involving a menacing and conniving Bryan Cranston—gave the impression of a fun-ish crime drama. I knew the plot hook of Cranston’s Walter White having cancer, which set him on the path to cooking—and selling—methamphetamine as a way to [...]

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Part of me really wanted “Ella McCay” to work. Not in a polite, professional way, but in a personal one. James L. Brooks’ films were stitched into my early movie memory: the swell of the “Terms of Endearment” score being the soundtrack of my earliest memories I have of my father, the awkward electricity of [...]

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A father returns after a death in the family and behaves as if presence alone should count as reconciliation. That’s the kind of emotional violence “Sentimental Value” (Norwegian: Affeksjonsverdi) understands with unnerving precision: the casual comments dressed up as concern, the polite evasions that sting more than shouting, the way an adult child can regress [...]

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Isle of Shoals Productions is extremely proud to announce that we have just wrapped and entered post-production on an original prestige short. “Study / Break,” filmed on location at the historic SUNY Downstate Medical Research Library, stars Gabrielle Kalomiris (“You’re Not There,” “Skipping Stones”), Michael Ironside (“Starship Troopers,” “Top Gun”) ...


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A podcast I listen to mentioned “Heart and Souls” as an arcane comedy that should be watched. Indeed, the film somehow managed to slip past my cinema radar for three decades. I watched it for the first time last night and was left thinking that had I known about it when it came out in [...]

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