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The latest War For the Planet of the Apes Trailer is the best movie of 2017 so far

May 17, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

I mean, Jesus Christ it’s fucking awesome.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies Tagged With: Apes, Matt Reeves, Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes

Mother! releases a mother of a movie poster

May 14, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

Jennifer Lawrence gives you her heart.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies Tagged With: Darren Aronofsky, Jennifer Lawrence, Mother!

Heights Theater’s Power Of Persistence series: Wait Until Dark in 35mm

May 8, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

Classic thriller with a terrorizing Alan Arkin. Do it.

Filed Under: Movies, MSP Tagged With: Heights Theater, Minneapolis, Wait Until Dark

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is exactly the movie you expect it to be

May 4, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

With a $200 Million budget, that’s failing.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn, Kurt Russell, Marvel

Scarlett Johansson’s Embodiment Quartet

April 25, 2025 by Christopher ZF 2 Comments

The actress’s body-obsessed work has created a fascinating film series investigating the relationship of body and mind

Filed Under: Featured, Movies Tagged With: Ghost in the Shell, Her, Lucy, Scarlett Johansson, Science-Fiction, Under the Skin

Five Must See Movies at this year’s MSP International Film Festival

April 12, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

The Truth Beneath South Korea, Lee Kyoung-mi In the late 1990s the Korean New Wave of cinema exploded onto the international film landscape with fierce violence and psychological intensity. If that new wave has ended, it is only because the nation is now established as one the world’s most exciting film industries. The latest export to […]

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, MSP, Reviews Tagged With: international film festival, MSPFILM, MSPIFF, Swim Team, The Hippopotamus, the Sounding, The Truth Beneath

Minneapolis’ Heights Theater announces their year-long program

April 10, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

It opens with Magnificent Ambersons on May 15

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, MSP Tagged With: Heights Theater, Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles

Andrew Deyoung’s Book,The Exo Project, Launches This Saturday

April 4, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

Local book party celebrates two debut authors, and one of our own.

Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged With: Andrew DeYoung, Sara Biren, The Exo Project, The Last Thing You Said

Aaron Sorkin in ‘disbelief’ that Hollywood has a diversity problem

March 27, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

Aaron Sorkin, West Wing, Social Network

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Which is the very reason WHY Hollywood has a diversity problem.

Filed Under: Featured, Media, Movies, TV Tagged With: Aaron Sorkin, discrimination, Hollywood, News

Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale gives piercing political echoes

March 26, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

Wake up.

Filed Under: Featured, TV Tagged With: Alexis Bledel, Elisabeth Moss, Margaret Atwood, The Handmaiden's Tale

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