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Daily Archives: December 5, 2020
Movie Review: Magical Irish “Wolfwalkers” is the best animated film of 2020
The filmmakers who brought us “The Secret of Kells” and “Song of the Sea” bring another Irish myth to vibrant, animated life in “Wolfwalkers,” an environmental fable about spirits who protect the forests from the Ruin of Man. The vivid, … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: Big Brother’s at the door with “Coded Bias” in facial rec tech, “data harvesting”
One of the cleverest touches of “Coded Bias,” the new film from documentarian Shalini Kantayya (“Catching the Sun”) is the faces we see and the voices she chose to give a platform to. The film — about the destructive biases … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Love, Weddings & Other Disasters”
There’s a whiff of a half-interesting screen romance in the multi-character episodic rom-com “Love, Weddings & Other Disasters.” Oscar winner Jeremy Irons plays a stiff, snobby Boston caterer who is “set up” with a “blind date.” The date is played … Continue reading
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Book Review: “Woody Allen. Apropos of Nothing. Autobiography.”
One thing Woody Allen didn’t cover in his new “the REAL me/my side of things” autobiography is the nearly 20 years he cultivated a mystique by avoiding talking to the press. It took the scandalous 1992 revelation of his affair … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes race WWII in “The Dig”
Lily James, Johnny Flynn and Ben Chaplin also star in this Jan. 21 Netflix release.
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Movie Preview: Liam Neeson is…”The Marksman”
Man of action, man of violence, man of “particular skills.” A little “No Country for old Men” meets “Gloria.”
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