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Movie Review: Crossing the Wrong Vet leads to “Motor City” Mayhem
As gimmicks go, cranking out a formulaic ’70s thriller with no dialogue, with set-piece scenes cut to songs from the era by David Bowie, Donna Summer, The Moody Blues, Bill Withers, Sniff-n Tears and Fleetwood Mac works for me. Potsy … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Class, Soccer, Second Chance Love and Addiction — Ken Loach’s “My Name is Joe” (1998)
Ken Loach is a filmmaker renowned for the working class naturalism of his films, for making sweeping dramas and intimate melodramas with political, economic and social justice (or injustice) subtexts. “My Name is Joe” (1998) is one of the more … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Idealistic Youth Go Where Governments Won’t, Saving “23,000 Lives”
A story suffused with the idealism of youth, “23,000 Lives” is about young people acting on their best impulses to help during a crisis that governments — fretting over public opinion — were trying to keep at arm’s length. It’s … Continue reading
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Movie Review Review: “Son of Sara,” a gorier “Rosemary’s Baby”
The Canadian indie thriller “Son of Sara” is the goriest “Rosemary’s Baby” homages to come along in years. Childbirth at its most bloody, a graphic throat-slitting opening scene determined to make us watch somebody bleed out in real-time, a Lin … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Everyone Calls Me Mike” wants to join your Gulf of Aden Sailing Passage
We all use cinematic shorthand when describing a new movie to friends or review readers. It’s not unreasonable to expect a certain cinema literacy among fellow movie lovers. So pitching the French sailing thriller “Tout le monde m’appelle Mike” — … Continue reading
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Movie Review: David Morse Carries the Weight of a “Broken Land” along the Southern Border
There’s not much new that the movies can say about the open political sore that is immigration policy and realities along America’s southern borders. The preponderance of movies on the subject have historically been pro-immigration, not a stretch for a … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: A Brit DJ with a Dead Brother hears the Birth of New Wave — Turn Your “Radio On”
“Radio On” is an archetypal ’60s “art film” mystery drama released on the cusp of the New Wave ’80s. The tone is downbeat, the story and performances are minimalist and the narrative is literally driven by a 1960 Rover 80 … Continue reading
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Tagged art-cinema, british-film, film, movies, new-wave, radio-djs, sting, thatcher-britain, writing
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Is Youtube Environmentalist “Dr. Edmund Hale” an AI Phony?
Have you seen the scores of Youtube “documentaries” featuring on camera narration by this Aussie looking (Outback wear) and sounding bloke who speaks with the authority of Morgan Freeman? He tells hyped tales of environmental/ecological challenges and how they’ve been … Continue reading
Series Review: Anya Taylor-Joy is…”Lucky?”
Anya Taylor-Joy spends most of her new series “Lucky” captured in lusty, loving close-ups. Attired, dyed, made-up, eyebrowed and false eyelashed to something akin to feminine perfection, we are left with no doubts as to where her series creator (Jonathan … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “The Odyssey” by Nolan
Sail we must, on Homer’s “wine dark sea” from Ithaca to Asia Minor and many points in between for the greatest story of them all, the tale of “a face, a fleet…of a war with Troy, of a man and … Continue reading
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