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Movie Review: This “Tuner” has an Ear for Safecracking
It’s built around a methodical, arcane and dying artistic profession set in a digitized, short-attention span world. There’s a love story whose backdrop is the classical music where virtuosos practice their art, and piano tuners practice theirs. And a heist … Continue reading
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Tagged daniel-roher, dustin-hoffman, leo-woodall, Reviews, tuner
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Movie Review: The Earth Stands Still for “Disclosure Day”
A vast conspiracy battles militant truth tellers to keep The Biggest Secret of All as the world hurtles towards World War III in Steven Spielberg’s third crack at a “Close Encounters” story, “Disclosure Day.” It’s predicated on the belief that … Continue reading
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Tagged colin-firth, disclosure-day, emily-blunt, movies, steven-spielberg
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Netflixable? A World Cup that Almost Wasn’t — “Mexico ’86”
What might have been a comical lark about a “villain” who was actually a “hero” in shepherding the World Cup to Mexico becomes a stumbling, ungainly grind in “Mexico ’86,” a Netflix soccer film about the dirty dealing it takes … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: Regenerative Farming Catches a Wave — “Groundswell”
“Groundswell” is another upbeat sermon on the ecological, personal, cultural and global benefits of turning the world back towards “regenerative agriculture,” the idea that “the old ways” were better. Because farming on a smaller scale, with a mix of pastures, … Continue reading
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Tagged clarksons-farm, climate-change, demi-moore, documentary-review, environment, regenerative-farming, sustainability, woody-harrelson
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Classic Film Review: Life Lived on the Margins on an Island off Ireland — “Man of Aran” (1934)
Hard lives the way they used to be lived are the subject of documentarian Robert Flaherty’s classic “Man of Aran,” a fictional film capturing the traditions of the past on Ireland’s Aran Islands in the 1930s. A black and white … Continue reading
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Tagged aran-islands, classic-film, famous-documentary, film, ireland-film, movies, news, writing
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Series Review: Snails, AgBots and Rich Farmer Guy/Old Guy Problems — “Clarkson’s Farm 5”
The novelty’s mostly worn off but some of the charm remains on “Clarkson’s Farm” as the British TV series about a rich and famous novice farmer’s misadventures in Oxfordshire returns for its fifth season. Veteran TV presenter and “Top Gear” … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon-prime, author, clarksons-farm, diddly-squat-farm, dutch-farming, history, jeremy-clarkson, oxfordshire
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Book Review: A Star Director Remembered in his Own Words — “Sydney Pollack: Collected Interviews”
I’m really enjoying and learning a lot about the celebrated, Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack through the assorted journalist interviews, public Q & As and filmmaker-to-filmmaker chats gathered in “Sydney Pollack: Collected Interviews. “ This University Press of Kentucky publication reminds … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, film, movies, Reviews, robert-redford
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Movie Review: “Carolina Caroline” and Her Man Oliver Rob their Way through the 1990s South
“Carolina Caroline” is a rigidly formulaic romantic thriller about a couple who meet as grifter-and-trainee and abruptly graduate from picking pockets and quick change scams to bank robberies. It’s dogmatic to the point where any potential surprise is smothered out … Continue reading
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Tagged film-festival, kyle-gallner, movies, Reviews, samara-weaving
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