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Classic Film Review: A Theatrical Cold War Anecdote turned TV Bon Bon — “An Englishman Abroad”
An actress on tour with “Hamlet” is “recruited” by Britain’s most notorious spy in 1950s Moscow in “An Englishman Abroad,” a delightfully droll tragi-comedy from the writer who gave us “The Madness of King George,” “The Lady in the Van” … Continue reading
Movie Review: The Newly-Homeless Experience Life with “No Address”
“No Address” is a sentimental, well-intentioned melodrama about homelessness in America that doesn’t quite deliver on its “There but for the grace of one or two missed paychecks go I” premise. It’s not exactly a “faith-based” drama, though visits a … Continue reading
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Tagged ashanti, beverly-dangelo, homelessness-in-california, movie-review, sacramento, william-baldwin, writing
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Movie Review: Pierce, Helena and Gabriel ensure a Young Irish Couple Receives “Four Letters of Love”
Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne appear on screen together for the first time in “Four Letters of Love,” a lovely, sentimental and ever-so-Irish romance about fate, faith and the power of words to woo, especially when folded … Continue reading
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Tagged ann-skelly, books, gabriel-byrne, helena-bomham-carter, ireland, irish-cinema, movies, niall-williams, pierce-brosnan, poetry, writing
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Documentary Review: “When We Went MAD'” for a Humor Magazine
It was more obvious 40 years ago, but we in America live in a MAD culture, a land of mockery, parody and running gags aimed at the institutions, pop trends, entertainment and “Americana” that we once thought of as “sacred … Continue reading
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Tagged bryan-cranston, comic-books, comics, comics-history, howard-stern, mad-magazine, seinfeld, tarantino, weird-al, writing
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Movie Review: An Indie Gem from Opiod Appalachia — “Hazard”
Ruined, emptied-out towns filled with rusting hulks of their mining past, long-shuttered storefronts, mobile homes twenty years past their expiration date, kudzu-overgrown Little League fields and locals who know they’re trapped even if they don’t know that ATV they just … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, alex-roe, appalachia, kentucky, movie-review, oxy, sosie-bacon, writing
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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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Netflixable? Her Son’s Arrest reduces her to “The Woman in the Line” at his Argentine Prison
“Due process” has been much on the minds and even in the news in North America, as ordinary citizens grapple with the shock of a rights-trampling regime killing people in boats it can’t identify much less charge with a crime … Continue reading
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Tagged argentina, due-process, film-review, netflix, prison-story, writing
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Have you donated to Wikipedia this year?
Wikipedia, the secondary/overview font of much of the “knowledge” available on the Internet, is 24 years old this year. Growing pains and legitimate complaints lodged against its “crowdsourced” biographies, histories, science and facts in its early years notwithstanding, it’s endured … Continue reading
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Tagged ai, books, history, snopes-com, wikipedia, writing
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Movie Review: A “Boxcutter” Dreams of his Big Hip Hop Break…in Toronto
An aspiring rapper pins all his hopes on a make-or-break meeting with a famous producer at a “secret” party that everybody knows about in “Boxcutter,” an amiable street-life dramedy set on the not-so-mean streets of Toronto. It’s a tale with … Continue reading
Documentary Review — “John Candy: I Like Me”
Friends, acquaintances and fans still get choked up when the subject of the late Canadian comic wonder John Candy comes up. I’d be talking to Richard Lewis or Ron Howard or Hanks or somebody who worked with Candy and out … Continue reading
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Tagged aykroyd, comedy, documentary-review, film, john-candy, movies, writing
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