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Daily Archives: November 18, 2025
Movie Review: A Mother’s Past and Present Blur “When Fall is Coming”
François Ozon has to be the French cinema’s premier poker player. With his genre-bending/expectations-upending dramas (“Everything Went Fine”), dramedies (“In the House”), feminist comedies (“Potiche”) and musical drama mysteries (“8 Women”), you’d hate to be seated at the same table … Continue reading
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Tagged film, french-cinema, french-film-review, movies, ozon, review, Reviews
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Movie Review: Aussie Recruits face a “Beast of War” before they ever face Combat
“Beast of War” sets up as a fine if not wholly novel approach to the WWII combat “grunts” journey long before it settles into its true destiny — a shark attack tale. Writer-director Kiah Roache-Turner trots through the tropes of … Continue reading
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Tagged aborigines-on-film, australia, australian-horror, shark-attack-movie, timor-sea, wwii-in-the-south-pacific
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Classic Film Review: A Reporter digs into government scandals real and staged — “Defence of the Realm” (1985)
It’s odd to think of the ’80s as a movie decade in which we can bandy the phrase “They don’t make’em like that any more” about. Hollywood’s blockbuster obsession almost wholly took over, and the roman numeralization of cinema “franchises” … Continue reading
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Tagged 80s-films, british-film, classic-cinema, david-puttnam, film, gabriel-byrne, greta-scaachi, movie, movies
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