Movies
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Where Comes La Cage: A Queer East Correspondence
The boldest and most playful version of this idea comes in Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s A Useful Ghost (2025). The film moves through…
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Supergirl | Jackass: Best and Last | Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl and the stunt-comedy swansong Jackass: Best and Last. For…
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Making A Splash: Remembering Hockney Onscreen
It seems oddly fitting that David Hockney’s death should coincide with a heatwave. After all, nobody can evoke the languorous feeling…
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Jackass: Best and Last review – a warm send-off…
Over 20 years ago, a young aspiring actor in Los Angeles filmed a video where he shot himself in the chest for the…
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Johnny Knoxville: ‘Jackass was born among friends…
If you’re gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough, and Jackass has been tough enough to endure over 25 years of…
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Supergirl review – a mid-field superhero affair
For generations, Superman has been the poster boy of polished, all-American heroism. He meets his antithesis in Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl,…
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500 Miles review – wall-to-wall soppiness
If your cinematic disposition only allows your body to process base levels of background sentimentality, then you may want to…
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The Last Viking review – Danish dark comedy is a…
The latest feature from the Danish screenwriter and filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen follows Anker (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) as he returns…
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Sophy Romvari: ‘I tried to infuse my love of…
Blue Heron is only the first feature film from Sophy Romvari, but through a formally inventive examination of familial trauma, childhood…
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Black Swan at the A.R.T: an unearthly medley of…
The Swan Lake theme really is something. Was another such tune ever crafted that could be simultaneously applied to scenarios…
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