12/4 at 1pm and 7pm: The Baby of Macon
12/7 at 7pm: Andrei Rublev
12/11 at 1pm and 7pm: Flesh + Blood
12/14 at 7pm: Black Death
12/18 at 1pm and 7pm: The Last Duel
12/21 at 7pm: Valhalla Rising
12/25 at 1pm and 7pm: The Devils
12/28 at 7pm an...
2022-12-07 20:54:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Tonight's presentation of Andrei Rublev begins at 7pm EST!
2022-12-07 20:23:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Cannibal Bonnie and Clyde on a road trip to find their place in the world is a concept you’ve got to work at losing me on. As luck would have it, that’s just what Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All seems hell-bent on doing. Its few virtues — exquisite makeup and Foley, especially surrounding the acts of cannibalism themselves — c...
2022-12-07 20:19:11 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s strange to call a film as charming and earnest as Paddington 2 refined, but it’s as though someone surgically removed all evidence of ineptitude from its lovely but technically unexceptional predecessor. Even coming in a good ten minutes longer than Paddington, Paul King’s 2018 followup feels much quicker on its feet...
2022-12-05 04:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's first screening of The Baby of Macon begins at 1pm EST, with an encore to follow at 7pm!
2022-12-04 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's screening of Ammonite begins at 7pm EST!
2022-11-30 18:53:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The top of a doorway. A child’s pajama-clad legs. Legos strewn across gray carpeting. Kyle Edward Ball’s Skinamarink is composed of many such half-images, and for every glimpse we catch of Kaylee (Dali Rose Tetreault) and her little brother Kevin (Lucas Paul), ten more flicker on the periphery, sustained as much by the viewer’s ra...
2022-11-29 20:27:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's first showing of In the Mood for Love begins at 1pm EST, with an encore to follow at 7pm!
2022-11-27 17:04:12 +0000 UTC View Post
What’s under the lid of the dinner tray? A leg of lamb? Salmon on a bed of rice? Perhaps a dead rat, plated like diner eggs on top of layers of sliced tomato. It’s the not knowing that matters, that generates the psychological tension so instrumental to the form of abuse known as coercive control. By exposing a victim to erratically...
2022-11-24 16:44:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's first showing of Raise the Red Lantern begins at 1pm EST, with an encore presentation at 7pm EST!
2022-11-20 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
On an island just off the coast of embattled Ireland, in the year 1923, Colm Doherty (Brendan Gleeson) decides to end his friendship with Pádraic Súilleabháin (Colin Farrell). A blackly tragicomic series of events ensues as Pádraic struggles to accept the loss of his best friend, who wishes to spend his old age pursuing legacy and contributi...
2022-11-18 03:07:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's showing of Brief Encounter begins at 7pm Est!
2022-11-16 21:29:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter III: The Sorrowful Moor
When Stephen was young, the crew of the trading ship Hellfire delighted in introduci...
2022-11-15 21:34:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's first screening of Portrait of a Lady on Fire begins at 1pm EST, with an encore showing at 7pm tonight.
2022-11-13 07:09:41 +0000 UTC View PostPART I: NORFOLK
The wolf, escorted by his milk-drawn dam,
Unknown to mercy, tears the guiltless lamb;
The towering eagle, darting from above,
Unfeeling rends the inoffensive dove;
The lamb and dove on living nature feed,
Crop the young herb, or crush the embryon...
2022-11-12 02:51:00 +0000 UTC View PostDear patrons, I wanted to let you all know that I Would Like to See It, my series of weekly reviews of movies I've never seen before, is returning soon! I regret not updating sooner; things have been wild for me and my loved ones, and they're just now stabilizing (knock on wood), so next week will mark the column's official return!
T...
2022-11-10 03:24:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Tonight's showing of Moonstruck begins at 7pm EST!
2022-11-09 19:04:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Is there much in Paddington’s visual language to recommend it? No. Is the script tight or, failing that, exceptional? Again, no. Will it open the notoriously stony hearts of the Western world to the plight of refugees and immigrants? No, art doesn’t really work like that. What Paul King’s 2014 adaptation of the classic children’...
2022-11-08 02:04:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's first showing of Emma Seligman's Shiva Baby begins at 1pm, with an encore at 7pm tonight.
2022-11-06 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Sunday 11/5, 1pm and 7pm: SHIVA BABY
Wednesday 11/8, 7pm: MOONSTRUCK
Sunday 11/13, 1pm and 7pm: PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
Wednesday 11/16, 7pm: BRIEF ENCOUNTER
Sunday 11/20, 1pm and 7pm: RAISE THE RED LANTERN
Wednesday 11/23, 7pm: PHANTOM THREAD
Sunday 11/27, 1pm and 7pm: IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
Wednesday 11/30, 7pm: AM...
It’s difficult to square the Julian Fellowes who wrote Downton Abbey with the Julian Fellowes who wrote Gosford Park a decade and change earlier. The latter has every last tooth, claw, and brutal instinct lacking from the sloppily sentimental former. Perhaps it’s the involvement of director Robert Altman and producer/actor ...
2022-11-05 06:35:48 +0000 UTC View Post
The closer homophobia gets to its subject, the more it’s forced to reckon with the inescapable reality of homosexual existence, the more it becomes a reflection of that existence’s complexities. Joy and struggle, squalor and tedium, love and resentment; all the workaday building blocks which together make up existence as a gay individual in ...
2022-11-04 02:45:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Today from 12 noon to 12 midnight, join me and the rest of the Deadlights crew for six spine-tingling ghost stories in the theater!
12, PULSE
2:15, THE EMPTY MAN
4:45, LAKE MUNGO
6:30, THE DEAD ZONE
8:30, GHOSTWATCH
10:30, MIDNIGHT SWIM
2022-10-30 09:02:48 +0000 UTC View Post
“Well there’s a stroke of luck,” inspector Calhoun (Donald Pleasance) says brightly upon learning that a crew of subway workers has been brutally assaulted and killed. “Murder’s police business.” Like everything else in Gary Sherman’s Death Line, the invisible, immutable borders of class and station are everywhere in the f...
2022-10-29 22:37:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Tonight's showing of Noroi: The Curse begins at 7pm EST in the Deadlights Theater!
2022-10-26 19:53:47 +0000 UTC View Post
“We don’t choose our destiny,” Rhaenyra tells her middle child, Lucerys, as he panics at the thought of assuming his grandfather the Sea Snake’s mantle. “It chooses us.” It’s a noble-sounding way of saying that the world doesn’t give a shit what you want from it: what’s going to happen is going to happen. ‘The Black Queen’ ...
2022-10-24 02:24:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's first showing of Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum begins at 1pm EST, with an encore to follow at 7pm EST this evening!
2022-10-23 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Tonight's showing of Incantation begins at 7pm EST in the Deadlights Theater!
2022-10-19 19:53:16 +0000 UTC View Post
As Alicent and her father Otto debate whether to usurp the iron throne or else to usurp it and have Rhaenyra and her family killed, I kept thinking of the recurring joke in Arrested Development that George Sr. had committed light treason. His son Michael reminds him there’s no such thing, a smack on the wrist Alicent...
2022-10-17 07:19:51 +0000 UTC View Post