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Classic Film Review: Race in the Deep South of Faulkner and Clarence Brown — “Intruder in the Dust” (1949)
The late novelist Harper Lee was press-shy almost her entire life, especially after “To Kill a Mockingbird” made her world famous. That was her way of avoiding answering one obvious question that weighs on the mind of cinephiles. “Did you … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Aziz Ansari Directs! Keanu and Keke and Seth and himself — “Good Fortune”
An R-rated guardian angel with Keanu Reeves at his most dopey/earnest? Sandra Oh and Sherry Cola show up. Sure. This could work. Oct. 17.
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Movie Preview: A Courtroom Canine Comedy from France — “Dog on Trial”
Zut alors! This looks adorbs.
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“Costner’s The West” and LeBron’s “Jim Thorpe: Lit By Lightning” — Can they rescue The History Channel?
The advent of streaming and video on demand has hastened an inconvenient and often downright unseemly devolution of “channels” and what they used to mean to the TV consumer. The long-established “evolve or die” desperation of basic cable/dish meant that … Continue reading
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Documentary Review: Indigenous People are the Front Line of Brazil’s Environmental Struggle — “We Are Guardians”
It’s hard to have much hope that the people of planet Earth will ever have a day of mass enlightenment to the environmental crises scientists and tuned-in politicians and activists have warned us about for decades, and which are plainly … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon-documentary, amazon-rainforest, amazon-rainforest, biodiversity, bolsonaro, brazil, climate-change, deforestation, di-caprio, environment, indigenous-people-protests
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Movie Preview: A Man must prove to The State(s) that he’s not who they claim he is — “I’m Not Stiller”
It’s a German film with a German (Albrecht Schult) playing an American arrested and identified as someone who disappeared after getting caught up in murderous political intrigues. This adaptation of a Max Frisch novel features Paula Beer as the missing/”dead” … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: A Nepo Baby singer-songwriter battles the memory of her Pop Legend Dad — “Singing in My Sleep”
Malin Akerman plays the perfectly credible rock-star widow/baby momma who raised a singer-songwriter (Jessica Belkin of “American Horror Story”) who is in denial about following in her “all he left me was a song” dad’s footsteps, resentful of the “all … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: Coming of Age with a Kestrel — “Kes” (1970)
“Kes,” the break-out feature of Ken Loach, is an unblinking, unsentimental coming-of-age tale about a boy and his kestrel. It’s a Yorkshire “Yearling” from one of the greatest “kitchen sink realists” the British cinema produced, and one of the last. … Continue reading
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Tagged classic-film-review, education, falconry, ken-loach, kes, kitchen-sink-realism, learning, teachers, teaching, yorkshire
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Movie Preview: Bill Hader voices “The Cat in the Hat”
A new animated take — amped up beyond the wildest anarchy Dr. Seuss ever dreamed up, with fart jokes — on one of the most beloved children’s books in English comes our way Feb. 27. The brand is established. It’s … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Limey Ladies meet by Accident — “Portraits of Dangerous Women”
You’d think, from the summery, sunbaked scenery you’d be hearing Aussie accents in this comedy about a car crash that brings three women together. But no, there’s Tara Fitzgerald (“Brassed Off,” “Hear My Song”), Jeany Spark (“Red Light”) and Yasmin … Continue reading
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