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Daily Archives: November 21, 2025
Netflixable? A Life Lived with Loss and a Search for meaning — “Train Dreams”
“Train Dreams” is a forlorn folk ballad with pretensions of being a tone poem. This downboat but picturesque saga of one man’s life during the lumbering-mad early years of the 20th century is both intimate and remote. We see a … Continue reading
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Tagged felicity-jones, joel-edgerton, movie-review, movies, train-dreams
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Movie Review: An Actor finds the Meaning of His Calling working as “Rental Family”
Just when you think Japanese culture could not seem more strange and exotic, along comes another movie reminder that the “problems” have a different gravitas over there, and the solutions to them can be downright ingenius. Little shrines decorate the … Continue reading
Movie Review — “Wicked: For Good” does Dorothy Wrong
I said at the start that turning “Wicked” the musical into a two-part big screen epic was a mistake. Just how big a mistake is obvious as this bloated beast staggers to the end of the Yellow Brick Road in … Continue reading
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Tagged ariana-grande, cynthia-erivo, movies, musical, wicked
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Movie Review: “Sisu: Road to Revenge” takes a Wrong Turn or Three
I am an audience of one at a late afternoon “preview” matinee of “Sisu 2,” aka “Sisu: Road to Revenge,” the sequel to the savage sleeper hit by Finnish carnage Jalmari Helander. Do the locals know something I don’t? Or … Continue reading
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Tagged action, jalmari-helander, jorma-tommila, movies, sisu
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