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The low-key musical ‘Becks’ is messy but authentic and compelling

9 years ago
Though the low-key musical “Becks” packs a lot into its first four minutes — including a cross-country move, a breakup and a drive halfway back across the States — it spends the rest of its time leisurely exploring the titular character’s return to her hometown of St. Louis. It’s all set to an...

Bollywood-style ‘Basmati Blues’ with Brie Larson is a big miss

9 years ago
Bollywood meets “La La Land,” not in a fortuitous way, via “Basmati Blues,” a broadly played though vibrantly photographed musical romantic-comedy that fails to find a happy medium between cute-and-clever and simply cloying. A spirited Brie Larson plays Linda Watt, an accomplished but naïve New...

Kristen Bell: husband Dax had to nurse my breast when I got mastitis

9 years ago
Kristen Bell has that new YouTube series with advice for moms, Momsplaining. If I cared more I would watch it, but the one episode I just watched was enough. I can only take her in small doses. A lot of you love The Good Place and it gets very positive reviews so she’s got that going for her. (I tri..

What’s real, what’s not is half the fun in ‘Fake Blood’

9 years ago
“Fake Blood” is a clever hybrid of earnest first-person documentary, gory B-horror and metafictional mediation. Director Rob Grant’s slippery presentation muddles his point — if he has one — but it’s fun to guess at what’s a put-on. Taken at face value, “Fake Blood” is about what happens when Grant..

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