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Daily Archives: April 23, 2025
Documentary Preview “Pee Wee as Himself”
Paul Reubens, aka Pee Wee Herman, tells his story from beyond the grave in this two-part documentary, finished after his death/ Reubens jokes, stares death in the face, recalls the “drugs” etc. Does he share the glory of creation with … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Abe Lincoln, Queer Icon — “Lavender Men”
This indie about a theatrical stage manager who has to school cast and crew about Gay Abe as they disrepect that stage manager’s pronouns during the run of a Lincoln bio-play. “Lavender Men” makes an interesting follow-up to last fall’s … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: James Mason makes his mark in Britain’s “Casablanca” — “Candlelight in Algeria” (1943)
Hollywood won the race to get a drama about the Allied invasion of North Africa into theaters largely due to luck. Warner Brothers bought the rights to an unproduced play written in 1940 that just happened to be set in … Continue reading
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Tagged algiers, british-history, casablanca, james-mason, photography, politics, world-war-ii
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Movie Review: Bad Manners at a Dinner Party — “The Trouble with Jessica” is that She’s Dead
An ever-so-British dinner party goes ever-so-wrong in ever so many British ways in “The Trouble with Jessica,” a dark but twee comedy of manners. The “dark” comes from the suicide of a narcissistic, newly-published author who crashes a gathering of … Continue reading
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Tagged alan-tudyck, british-film, dark-comedy, dinner-party-farce, matt-winn, movie-review, olivia-williams, rufus-sewell, shirley-henderson
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