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Daily Archives: November 7, 2025
Christmas comes early? For a Miyazaki fan, you betcha
Can’t wait to read and review the new book by Nicolas Rapold. Great anime is always a grand escape, like visiting a museum where the artwork tells a tale.
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Documentary Review: A “Caterpillar” figures a change in Eye Color will Make him a Butterfly
“Caterpillar” presents itself as a gay man’s documentary journey of self-discovery, when it’s really about body dysphoria/dysmorphia and faddish cosmetic surgery taken to its extreme. David Taylor, a Miami hairdresser is biracial, wrestling with a troubled childhood, acceptance and obsessive … Continue reading
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Tagged eye-color-implants, film, gay-narcissism, indian-surgery-mills, movies
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Movie Preview: Amanda Seyfried founds The Shakers — “The Testament of Ann Lee”
Mona Fastvold’s film biography of a prophet of her times, a founder of a Christian sect which endures in some corners of New England to this day, suggests passion and historical detail — well, save for the fully furled sails … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Finding “Feel Good” feelings and Purpose after Cancer — “Paper Flowers”
This feel good drama, “inspired by a Huffington Post” essay titled “Thank You, Cancer,” is an unlikely “for your consideration” contender being rolled out during awards season. Not a “name” most of us will recognize in the cast, but a … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Postpartum as Improv Exercise — “Die My Love”
Most movies come to you, but challenging ones make you come to them. Even when they’re assaulting you in your seat, they demand your attention, understanding and interpretation to come off. “Die My Love” is a broken romance and deep … Continue reading
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Tagged film, jennifer-lawrence, lynne-ramsay, movies, robert-pattinson
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Movie Review: Relearning the lessons of “Nuremberg”
The stakes could not have been higher. The bloodiest war in history had just been brought to an end, and not all the “monsters” who launched it and conceived and carried out the worst genocide in human history had been … Continue reading
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Tagged michael-shannon, movies, nuremberg, rami-malek, russell-crowe
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