Steven Rea has been an Inquirer movie critic since 1992. He was born in London, raised in New York City, and has lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Iowa City, Iowa. His column, "On Movies," appears Sundays in Arts & Entertainment, his reviews appear in the Weekend section on Fridays, and his blog, On Movies Online, can be found here. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics.
He also curates the movie stars and bicycling photo blog, Rides A Bike.
Email Steven at srea@phillynews.com
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Over the last two years, audiences have watched Andrea Riseborough as she slipped into the skin of Wallis Simpson, the American socialite whose relationship with King Edward VIII brought about his abdication, in the Madonna-directed W.E.
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'This Is the End': Apocalypse crashes hot Hollywood party
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Alien invasion? Zombie attack? A massive, catastrophic earthquake? Nope, in This Is the End it really is the end - an old-fashioned, New Testament apocalypse, straight out of the Book of Revelation and happening right now, in plain sight of the Hollywood sign.
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'Shadow Dancer': Intriguing drama with shifting levels of deceit
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A knotted drama of terrorism and double agentry set in Belfast in the early 1990s, Shadow Dancer boasts a fiercely focused performance from Andrea Riseborough as Collette McVeigh, a Northern Ireland IRA member arrested after an aborted bombing in a London Underground station.
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In 'Man of Steel,' the same old same old
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Planet Krypton? How about Planet Sex Organ? In the long, loud prologue of the mega-disappointing Man of Steel, director Zack Snyder and his crew reimagine Superman's birth orb as a kind of Freudian dreamscape of phalluses and vulvas. Giant bulbous rocket ships stand erect. Hovering pods pulsate pudendally. A "genesis chamber" beckons. Ancient runes look like spermatozoa run amok.
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A one-sided campaign for nuclear energy
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In Pandora's Promise, a stacked-deck documentary in support of nuclear energy, director Robert Stone holds a cute little yellow meter aloft, measuring the levels of radiation at Chernobyl and Fukushima, sites of two of the world's most disastrous nuclear power plant failures.
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Five golf movies to watch
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Here are five duffer-centric cinematic entries to celebrate the sport's transcendental pleaures - safe and dry via your TV, PC, tablet, or smartphone.
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'This Is the End': Apocalypse crashes hot Hollywood party
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Alien invasion? Zombie attack? A massive, catastrophic earthquake? Nope, in This Is the End it really is the end - an old-fashioned, New Testament apocalypse, straight out of the Book of Revelation and happening right now, in plain sight of the Hollywood sign.
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Marling lived 'The East' before writing about it
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Brit Marling plays a spy in her taut new thriller The East - a woman working for an elite private intelligence agency who goes deep undercover, infiltrating a group of radical freegans that has been targeting giant energy companies and Big Pharma.
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A taut, eerie espionage drama
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It's more than a little eerie, too.
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