Editor’s Note: For 2017 Best-of lists, Filmcore contributors must have seen at least 35 movies in 2017. 2017 was a year packed with both pleasant franchise surprises and unique original content. I wouldn’t claim some ...
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Armani’s Top 13 Of ’17
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“Altered Carbon” Critical Exchangecore: All Gloss, Little Substance
We’re back with another Filmcore Critical Exchangecore. This time it’s for Netflix’s original series “Altered Carbon.” I went into this series pretty unaware of its backstory, but it’s based on the novel of the same ...
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Why “The Walking Dead” Dies With Carl Grimes
If you’re like a lot of fans, you’ve developed a strained relationship with AMC’s “The Walking Dead.” Based on a graphic novel of the same name created by Robert Kirkman, the show was ...
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Saoirse Ronan Pulls An Ellen Page In “Lady Bird:” A Critical Exchangecore
Growing up is hard to do. Set in the sleepy suburbs of Sacramento, Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird” really captures the anxiety and angst involved in shedding your adolescence and plunging into adulthood. With a previously unachieved ...
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Critical Exchangecore: Colin Farrell Reckons With “A Sacred Deer”
We’re back with a fresh Critical Exchangecore hot off the presses! Director Yorgos Lanthimos (who helmed “The Lobster” last year)’s “The Killing Of A Sacred Deer” tells the tale of how a successful surgeon, played by ...
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TV Core-ner: “The Walking Dead” – “Monsters” (Season 8, Episode 3) Review
I’m not sure what Kool-Aid “The Walking Dead” editors have been drinking, but I’m calling for an intervention. Between the disorienting switches in slow-mo flash forwards and the shameless cliffhangers, “TWD” is starting to feel more like ...
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TV Core-ner: “The Walking Dead” – “The Damned” (Season 8, Episode 2) Review
Just when you thought “The Walking Dead” couldn’t push us further into the land of grey areas, we got Gracie. The show is constantly asking the philosophical question of whether our compassion or mercy is what ...
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Can You Hear Us Above This Noise? An “Altered States” Critical Exchangecore
The late English director Ken Russell must have been a huge proponent of watching Fellini films really, really blitzed. His 104 minute-long tribute to mushrooms, “Altered States,” is a relatively cogent exploration of the drug ...
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TV Core-ner: “The Walking Dead” – “Mercy” (Season 8, Episode 1) Review
“My mercy prevails over my wrath.” These were the words mentally whispered by Rick Grimes as he delivered his a rallying speech to the Survivors. As we march through “The Walking Dead” season eight premiere, ...
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Brynner on the Loose in “Westworld” ’73: A Critical Exchangecore
It may surprise you to learn, dear reader, that HBO’s blockbuster smash series “Westworld,” about to embark on its second season, was actually a remake of a 1973 Michael Crichton/Yul Brynner sci-fi classic. Armani Barron ...