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Daily Archives: October 18, 2023
Movie Review: The Daughter of Immigrants tells her story, “The Persian Version”
We could all use something a little sunny of Middle Eastern origin right about now. This autobiographical (“ish”) dramedy by writer-director Maryam Keshavarz fills that need. “The Persian Version” tells us the story of an LGBTQ Iranian-American daughter trying to … Continue reading
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Netflixable? A Thai Melodrama about Screening Movies from a Truck — “Once Upon a Star”
Movies that use our remembered love of the cinema experience of our youth can’t help but be sentimental. From “The Last Picture Show” to “Cinema Paradiso,” “Four Hundred Blows” to “The Fabelmans,” filmmakers have found that their nostalgia for the … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Anne Hathaway, Thomasin McKenzie and Shea Whigham — a Prison Shrink thriller about treating “Eileen”
This period piece looks wicked fierce. “Prison is no place for a young lady.”
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Movie Preview: Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon,” the new trailer raises the bar
The class conscious over-achiever, the “destined for greatness” ego, the epic scale and Black Sabbath and Ozzy’s “War Pigs” set the tone. This looks more like a sure thing than the Joaquin? As Napoleon? earlier takes did. Thanksgiving.
Classic Film Review: Newton makes “Blackbeard, the Pirate” (1952) the most “Yaarrrr” of Them All
Pirates, so far as we know, rarely said “Yarrrrr.” The fact that we think they do, that it’s been a Law of the Sea since “The Simpsons” Sea Captain character was a squinty wee squirt, that there’s a Talk Like … Continue reading
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