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A scene from Some Kind of Heaven by Lance Oppenheim. (Courtesy Magnolia Pictures) Dennis Dean in Some Kind of Heaven by Lance Oppenheim. (Courtesy Magnolia Pictures) Richard Schwartz in Some Kind of Heaven by Lance Oppenheim. (Courtesy Magnolia Pictures) Director Lance Oppenheim poses for a portrait to promote the film Some Kind of Heaven at the Music Lodge during the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2020, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP) NEW YORK — They say oppos...

Disclaimer: Please note that the views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of SpoilerTV. Welcome to the annual best of the year movie lists - taking place of the Month at the Movies article for December, as a lot of these films I did actually watch last month for the first time in my end of year catchup. Ive seen a lot of great movies in 2020 and whilst it may have been the smart thing to cut down this l...

'Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets' has just as much depth and soul as any big Friday night at the pub.

The latest movie from acclaimed documentary filmmakers Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV, called Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, was a sensation at last year’s Sundance Festival, and when you step back and look at what they’ve done, it’s kind of astonishing. The movie takes place in a dive bar in Las Vegas on the night before it closes for good, and simply follows the people who call the place “home,” for lack of a better word. In a breezy, freewheeling style, the brothers capture what is, i...

Dec 31, 2020 - Cinemas might've been closed, but this year was still a great one for movies.

Perhaps one is doomed to be eclipsed when playing Princess Margaret, but Vanessa Kirby more than held her own in the first two seasons of The Crown. The perfect foil for Claire Foys prissy and dutiful young queen, Kirbys Margaret fulminated on the sidelines, craving the spotlight she managed to attract all too often with her rock n roll lifestyle and her appalling taste in men.

Perhaps one is doomed to be eclipsed when playing Princess Margaret, but Vanessa Kirby more than held her own in the first two seasons of The Crown. The perfect foil for Claire Foys prissy and dutiful young queen, Kirbys Margaret fulminated on the sidelines, craving the spotlight she managed to attract all too often with her rock n roll lifestyle and her appalling taste in men. She has been replaced in recent seasons by Helena Bonham-Carter as Margaret moves through a painful middle age, but Th...

Fellow Cinematic Nomads, Like this tumultuous year, the Movie Club is coming to an end. Parting is such sweet sorrow, to quote Kenneth Bran—I mean the Bard. Our impending goodbyes make me feel so bittersweet that I had to cue up Nicholas Britell’s If Beale Street Could Talk score for maximum effect. Advertisement Because so much turmoil befell me in 2020, my joys and successes were often pulled into the undertow by my worries, fears, and concerns. I often felt overwhelmed and hopeless. And...

I feel lucky to have been served up Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland to write on for our last round. This was maybe my single favorite film of the year, or at least tied for that honor with First Cow (and I don’t say that just to butter up Evie, the ruminative guest star of Odie’s last post). No other movie better crystallized the anxieties and injustices of our current moment while also seeming to emerge fully formed from both its creator’s brain and some entirely different (past or future?) ...

Sep 12, 2020 - 1:23 pm Frederick "Toots" Hibbert, who pioneered and helped globalize the reggae genre via his iconic, GRAMMY-winning band Toots And The Maytals, died Friday (Sept. 11) evening. He was 77.  While no cause of death has been revealed, Hibbert was hospitalized in an intensive care unit in his native Jamaica in August after showing symptoms of the coronavirus. While he was awaiting results from a coronavirus test, he was placed in a medically induced coma in early Septembe...