Survive’s retro horror-synth score for Stranger Things means they benefit from Pitchfork’s courtship of the prestige-television audience.
Tag: Michael Cera
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Staten Island Summer: Revenge of the teen-sex comedy
A new feature from the SNL crew brings back the bad old days of Porky’s
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Steppenwolf’s This Is Our Youth meets The Mummy
In Steppenwolf’s This Is Our Youth, Kenneth Lonergan’s ugly-sweet play has affinities with an old black-and-white movie.
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My favorite Chicago movie premieres of 2013, 20-11
The second in a multipart series on my favorite new movies of the year
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Now on DVD: This year’s other Michael Cera-Sebastian Silva collaboration
Notes on the accomplished psychological thriller Magic Magic, which comes out on DVD after being denied a theatrical release
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Tripping your brains out on psychedelic cactus, so who needs the rest of this week’s screenings?
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus: the spines are all mine
Michael Cera searches for a hallucinogenic plant in Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus.
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Armageddon is just the beginning in This Is the End
In This Is the End, Seth Rogen and pals go surfing on the Lake of Fire.
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Getting an eyeful at Lollapalooza
Frodo’s floor-clearing DJ set, Costner on a cart, and more celeb sightings at the fest. Plus: Kesha checks out Disappears, Paleo moves to the Chi, and Mahjongg’s Hunter Husar goes solo
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Madam, I’m Adam
In this week’s issue, Cliff Doerksen reviews Max Mayer’s romantic comedy Adam, with Hugh Dancy as a young man who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome and Rose Byrne as the young woman who finds him attractive. “Like many films of its genre,” Cliff writes, “it’s less interesting as a movie than as a map of gender […]
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I left my heart in the 400 Theater, and my gum under the seat
The long-shuttered Village North in Rogers Park reopens tonight as the New 400 Theater. Plus this week’s new movie reviews.
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Music-driven movies a cure for festival angst
Three movies about music lift spirits at the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival.