Daily Archives: December 11, 2021

Netflixable? “Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas”

Although Shaun and his fellow Mossy Bottom Farm sheep will never replace Wallace & Gromit as my favorite Aardman characters, they get themselves into a fine mess in “Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas.” Yes, basically every Shaun story, … Continue reading

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Movie Review: End times? Let’s get those “Last Words” on film

A little of the absurdist madness of 1960s cinema lives on in “Last Words,” a sort of “Waiting for Goddard” End Times tale about the last people on post-apocalyptic Earth making a movie about themselves. Based on a novel by … Continue reading

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Movie Review: An elderly Brazilian faces racism in his “Memory House”

Cristovam sits, blank-faced but concentrating, as he’s lectured in the boss’s office. He works in a dairy. They’re having to cut back. The country is in “crisis” and when we figure out that country is Brazil, we get it. But … Continue reading

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