Luke Baynes

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It is with mixed emotions that I report that this will be my last article for Examiner.com.I am leaving my muse, the cinema, to pursue other endeavors in the art of journalism.But the movies – my first...

Current picture shows: 'The Debt'

The Debt is half a good movie, with a sharp little Cold War spy story bookended by a muddled mess of a framing device.It begins in Tel Aviv, Israel, circa 1997. Estranged ex-spouses Rachel Singer (Helen...

New on DVD & Blu-ray: Roman Polanski’s 'Cul-de-sac'

Roman Polanski’s Cul-de-sac (1966) is an insufferably strange movie – at turns perversely funny and maddeningly tedious – but one which, if compared to Polanski’s earlier masterpiece Knife in the Water, offers some...

Current picture shows: 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'

On June 15, Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC’s Home Listing Report revealed that San Francisco was the 36th most expensive housing market in the United States from the period of September 2010 to March 2011, and that it...

Current picture shows: 'Friends with Benefits'

I like a movie that tells you its entire premise in the title. At least you have no one but yourself to blame if your $9.50 went for naught.So it was that faced with the alternative of...

New on DVD: 'Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives'

If you think pronouncing Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s name is difficult, try explaining his latest movie.In the course of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, there’s a long scene of a water buffalo grazing in...

Current picture shows: 'Beginners,' starring Ewan McGregor

Despite its title, Beginners is rather advanced for a comedy, employing a flashback-heavy, almost stream-of-consciousness narrative structure. Part love story, part meditation on death, part gay rights treatise, it’s ultimately too ambitious for its...

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Current picture shows: 'The Debt'

New on DVD & Blu-ray: Roman Polanski’s 'Cul-de-sac'

Current picture shows: 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'

Current picture shows: 'Friends with Benefits'

New on DVD: 'Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives'

Current picture shows: 'Beginners,' starring Ewan McGregor

Terrence Malick, 'The Tree of Life,' and the reinvention of the cinema

Classics from the vault: 'The Thing from Another World'

Current picture shows: Woody Allen’s 'Midnight in Paris'

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