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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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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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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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Movie Preview: Mel Gibson reminds cultish hostage takers it’s “Hunting Season”
She tried to get away, they shot her. Now Mel and his daughter are mixed up in their “business.”
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Classic Film Review: Lonsdale hunts Fox in Zimmerman’s “The Day of the Jackal” (1973)
Pristine, sleek and stylish, “The Day of the Jackal” is a period piece that’s aged into a period piece about a period piece. Director Fred Zinnemann’s film of Frederick Forsythe’s thriller novel recreates chic early ’60s Euro-travel, wining and dining … Continue reading
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Tagged classic-film-review, derek-jacobi, edward-fox, films, frederick-forsythe, michael-lonsdale, writing
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Movie Preview: Alia Shawkat and Chloë Sevigny” prep the troops for combat in “Atropia”
Callum Turner, Tim Blake Nelson and Jane Levy also star this is goof on a nation atrophying in a forever war, training its troops in a pricey simulation Iraqi town in the California desert. Might have had promise, but Tim … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Claire Foy mourns dad Brendan Gleeson via a Goshawk — “H is for Hawk”
Based on a memoir and thus a “true story,” this Jan. 23. release punches a lot of feel-good buttons, if the trailer’s any indication.
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Movie Review: Gang Life in LA never changes? “Die Like a Man”
Title to subject matter, casting to setting, “Die Like a Man” is a by-the-numbers LA-gangland tale that takes its best shot at leaving no “number” out. Latin teen who celebrates his 17th birthday by “becoming a man” with a gang … Continue reading
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