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Movie Review: A COVID/BLM Protests/Trumpism-Conspiracy allegory set in “Eddington,” New Mexico
There’s a veritable NRA convention of ordnance discharged in “Eddington,” Ari Aster’s All American parable of “How did we get here?” But the one weapon not discharged is the most apt metaphor for the latest from the writer/director of “Midsommar,” … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: As Glimpsed in “Joker: folie à deux” — a Minnelli, Astaire and Charisse musical, “The Band Wagon” (1953)
Nothing in a movie is there by accident. So it’s worth pondering why the 1953 screen musical “The Band Wagon” is the movie that patients/inmates at the Arkham Hospital for the Criminally Insane watch in “Joker: Folie à Deux.” The … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Joaquin commits heart and soul, but “Joker: Folie à Deux” flails
“Joker: Folie à Deux” is a Great American Songbook jukebox musical grafted onto the Grand Guignol of Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix‘s vision of the comic book character. It doesn’t work, doesn’t play and doesn’t coalesce into the Big Message … Continue reading
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