Dichotomous Purity
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Thursday, March 28, 2024
Not unfamiliar
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We were about 20 minutes into Love Lies Bleeding , when I realized: "Oh. This is True Romance ." The latter is a Quentin Tarantino...
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Been there, Dune that
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As noted when Part One came out , two-and-a-half years ago, Denis Villeneuve's style and attention to theme and mood shines through in m...
Saturday, March 23, 2024
The line between a biopic and a documentary
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I heard the story of Sir Nicholas Winton when it was contemporary, in the late 80s. News emerged that a man who had rescued dozens of Jewish...
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Dolling too hard
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I have been and likely always will be a Coen Brothers fan. One of my all-time favorite films is Miller's Crossing , which is a paean to ...
Saturday, February 24, 2024
A very mixed bag and the best for last (and not nominated): 2024 Oscar-nominated animation shorts
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The easiest answer for why this review took four days to get around to writing while the other two were both done the next day is because I ...
Monday, February 19, 2024
Tragedy, before and after, with a dose of whimsy: 2024 Oscar-nominated Live Action shorts
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The next category, which we actually saw first, was Live Action. As noted earlier , in general, this was the better overall collection of fi...
Music, books, living and building: 2024 Oscar-nominated documentary shorts
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It's Oscar short season and we ended up seeing two categories in one day again. The second was Documentary, but that's the one I'...
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