Mike D'Angelo
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Noise
Don’t bet on sloppy comedy ‘The House’
Saturday, July 1, 2017 Like most SNL-influenced movies—it's long on semi-improvised goofiness and short on actual jokes.
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Pop Culture
‘Twin Peaks’ returns to a TV world it helped pioneer
Thursday, May 18, 2017 You can see its DNA in everything from The Leftovers to Riverdale
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Intersection
Las Vegas’ geek game strengthens with Tables Board Game Spot
Thursday, May 11, 2017 For $5 a day, you’ll have unlimited access to some 1,000 games, from classics like Guess Who? to modern favorites like Catan.
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Features
Three limited-release films we hope hit Las Vegas
Thursday, April 27, 2017 Here are some of our indie wishes this summer.
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Screen
The bonkers ‘Colossal’ works in spite of itself
Thursday, April 20, 2017 Colossal taps into the universal secret conviction that one’s most trivial actions are somehow world-consequential.
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Screen
‘T2 Trainspotting’ fails to recapture the original film’s energy
Thursday, March 30, 2017 If you’ve never seen Trainspotting, watching it in preparation would be a good idea, as T2 assumes pretty strong familiarity.
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Screen
Office workers go for the kill in The Belko Experiment
Thursday, March 16, 2017 A large cast of fine actors do their best to provide emotional ballast and some flashes of dark humor.
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Screen
Film review: 'Billy Lynn' combines an awkward story with awkward visuals
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016 The movie version remains stubbornly on the surface—a surface, moreover, that only a tiny number of people will view as intended.
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Screen
Hollywood doesn’t dumb it down with alien-encounter film 'Arrival'
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016 Here, for the first time in ages, is proof that “thrilling” and “analytical” aren’t mutually exclusive.
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Screen
Film review: 'Blair Witch' fails to improve on the original's minimalism
Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016 It simulates amateurishness in the same highly professional manner as countless Blair Witch rip-offs before it.