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The Deadlights Theater: The Shadow of the Cross

12/4 at 1pm and 7pm: The Baby of Macon

12/7 at 7pm: Andrei Rublev

12/11 at 1pm and 7pm: Flesh + Blood

12/14 at 7pm: Black Death

12/18 at 1pm and 7pm: The Last Duel

12/21 at 7pm: Valhalla Rising

12/25 at 1pm ...

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The Deadlights Theater: Andrei Rublev

Tonight's presentation of Andrei Rublev begins at 7pm EST!

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In the Flesh: Bones and All

Cannibal Bonnie and Clyde on a road trip to find their place in the world is a concept you’ve got to work at losing me on. As luck would have it, that’s just what Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All seems hell-bent on doing. Its few virtues — exquisite makeup and Foley, especially su...

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I Would Like to See It: Paddington 2

It’s strange to call a film as charming and earnest as Paddington 2 refined, but it’s as though someone surgically removed all evidence of ineptitude from its lovely but technically unexceptional predecessor. Even coming in a good ten minutes longer than Paddington, Paul Kin...

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The Deadlights Theater: The Baby of Macon

Today's first screening of The Baby of Macon begins at 1pm EST, with an encore to follow at 7pm!

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The Deadlights Theater: Ammonite

Today's screening of Ammonite begins at 7pm EST!

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In the Flesh: Skinamarink

The top of a doorway. A child’s pajama-clad legs. Legos strewn across gray carpeting. Kyle Edward Ball’s Skinamarink is composed of many such half-images, and for every glimpse we catch of Kaylee (Dali Rose Tetreault) and her little brother Kevin (Lucas Paul), ten more flicker on the...

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The Deadlights Theater: In the Mood for Love

Today's first showing of In the Mood for Love begins at 1pm EST, with an encore to follow at 7pm!

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I Would Like to See It: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

What’s under the lid of the dinner tray? A leg of lamb? Salmon on a bed of rice? Perhaps a dead rat, plated like diner eggs on top of layers of sliced tomato. It’s the not knowing that matters, that generates the psychological tension so instrumental to the form of abuse known as coercive...

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The Deadlights Theater: Raise the Red Lantern

Today's first showing of Raise the Red Lantern begins at 1pm EST, with an encore presentation at 7pm EST!

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In the Flesh: The Banshees of Inisherin

On an island just off the coast of embattled Ireland, in the year 1923, Colm Doherty (Brendan Gleeson) decides to end his friendship with Pádraic Súilleabháin (Colin Farrell). A blackly tragicomic series of events ensues as Pádraic struggles to accept the loss of his best friend, who wishes t...

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The Deadlights Theater: Brief Encounter

Today's showing of Brief Encounter begins at 7pm Est!

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WYRM I.III

                                    Chapter III: The Sorrowful Moor

When Stephen was young, the crew of the tra...

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The Deadlights Theater: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Today's first screening of Portrait of a Lady on Fire begins at 1pm EST, with an encore showing at 7pm tonight.

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WYRM I.II

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WYRM I.I

PART I: NORFOLK

The wolf, escorted by his milk-drawn dam,

Unknown to mercy, tears the guiltless lamb;

The towering eagle, darting from above,

Unfeeling rends the inoffensive dove;

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An Update

Dear patrons, I wanted to let you all know that I Would Like to See It, my series of weekly reviews of movies I've never seen before, is returning soon! I regret not updating sooner; things have been wild for me and my loved ones, and they're just now stabilizing (knock on wood), so next week wil...

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The Deadlights Theater: Moonstruck

Tonight's showing of Moonstruck begins at 7pm EST!

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In the Flesh: Paddington

Is there much in Paddington’s visual language to recommend it? No. Is the script tight or, failing that, exceptional? Again, no. Will it open the notoriously stony hearts of the Western world to the plight of refugees and immigrants? No, art doesn’t really work like that. What Paul K...

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THE DEADLIGHTS THEATER: SHIVA BABY

Today's first showing of Emma Seligman's Shiva Baby begins at 1pm, with an encore at 7pm tonight.

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THE DEADLIGHTS THEATER: HEARTBREAKER

Sunday 11/5, 1pm and 7pm: SHIVA BABY
Wednesday 11/8, 7pm: MOONSTRUCK
Sunday 11/13, 1pm and 7pm: PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
Wednesday 11/16, 7pm: BRIEF ENCOUNTER
Sunday 11/20, 1pm and 7pm: RAISE THE RED LANTERN
Wednesday 11/23, 7pm: PHANTOM THREAD
Sunday 11/27, 1pm and 7pm:...

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In the Flesh: Gosford Park

It’s difficult to square the Julian Fellowes who wrote Downton Abbey with the Julian Fellowes who wrote Gosford Park a decade and change earlier. The latter has every last tooth, claw, and brutal instinct lacking from the sloppily sentimental former. Perhaps it’s the involve...

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In the Flesh: Cruising

The closer homophobia gets to its subject, the more it’s forced to reckon with the inescapable reality of homosexual existence, the more it becomes a reflection of that existence’s complexities. Joy and struggle, squalor and tedium, love and resentment; all the workaday building blocks which ...

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The Deadlights Theater: Halloween Marathon 2022

Today from 12 noon to 12 midnight, join me and the rest of the Deadlights crew for six spine-tingling ghost stories in the theater! 

12, PULSE

2:15, THE EMPTY MAN

4:45, LAKE MUNGO

6:30, THE DEAD ZONE

8:30, GHOSTWATCH

10:30, MIDNIGHT SWIM

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In the Flesh: Death Line

“Well there’s a stroke of luck,” inspector Calhoun (Donald Pleasance) says brightly upon learning that a crew of subway workers has been brutally assaulted and killed. “Murder’s police business.” Like everything else in Gary Sherman’s Death Line, the invisible, immutable bo...

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The Deadlights Theater: Noroi

Tonight's showing of Noroi: The Curse begins at 7pm EST in the Deadlights Theater!

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In the Flesh: House of the Dragon S1E10: The Black Queen

“We don’t choose our destiny,” Rhaenyra tells her middle child, Lucerys, as he panics at the thought of assuming his grandfather the Sea Snake’s mantle. “It chooses us.” It’s a noble-sounding way of saying that the world doesn’t give a shit what you want from it: what’s going to...

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The Deadlights Theater: Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum

Today's first showing of Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum begins at 1pm EST, with an encore to follow at 7pm EST this evening!

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The Deadlights Theater: Incantation

Tonight's showing of Incantation begins at 7pm EST in the Deadlights Theater!

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In the Flesh: House of the Dragon S1E09: The Green Council

As Alicent and her father Otto debate whether to usurp the iron throne or else to usurp it and have Rhaenyra and her family killed, I kept thinking of the recurring joke in Arrested Development that George Sr. had committed light treason. His son Michael reminds him the...

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