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Scribe Video Center's "Making Haiku into Short Films"
Poetry in Motion
Scribe Video Center brought in several prominent Philadelphia filmmakers (and poet Sonia Sanchez) for a workshop on experimental short film. A.D. Amorosi took a look.
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M. Night Shyamalan's 'Split'
The trouble with Kevin
In M. Night Shyamalan's new thriller, a man with 24 personalities kidnaps and imprisons three teen girls. Is it worth taking the time to meet them all? A.D. Amorosi reviews.
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Ava DuVernay's '13th' at the African American Museum in Philadelphia
Haunted by the end of slavery
MLK weekend brought a special screening of Ava DuVernay’s ‘13th’ to Philadelphia, along with a sobering and essential discussion with people affected by America’s racially biased incarceration epidemic. Alaina Mabaso was there.
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Pedro Almodóvar's 'Julieta'
Almodóvar gets serious
Pedro Almodóvar's latest film, 'Julieta,' marks a new, more somber phase in the auteur's career, but not everyone is happy about that change. Concha Alborg reviews.
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Reconsidering Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho'
'Psycho's' better half
Norman Bates is not the best part of Hitchcock classic 'Psycho.' Watch Janet Leigh instead for the better parts of the story. Michael Woods considers.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies'
Close encounters of the critical kind
Neil deGrasse Tyson hates scientific inaccuracies in film, so he put together a two-and-a-half hour PowerPoint presentation on the subject and took it on tour. Angela Harmon reviews.
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Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival presents 'Painted Nails'
Engaging documentary still unpolished
This entry at the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival examines the harmful ingredients in nail salon cosmetics and one woman who wants to see them changed. Brittany Barbato reviews.
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3 minute read
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John Zacherle, 1918-2016
The "Cool Ghoul" ghosts his fans
John Zacherle, creepy-cool host of Philadelphia's 'Shock Theater,' has died, but a few generations can thank him for making terrible horror movies a little better.
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Philadelphia Film Festival presents 'A Quiet Passion' and 'Neruda'
Two films, two poets, worlds apart
Two films at the 2016 Philadelphia Film Festival, 'A Quiet Passion' and 'Neruda,' tackle the lives of poets, but in very different ways. Concha Alborg reviews.
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Capsule reviews from the 2016 Philadelphia Film Festival
Four PFF25 opening weekend films
Stephen Silver attended the Philadelphia Film Festival's opening weekend and picked a few of his favorites (and one he wasn't so fond of).
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