Moral conundrum as performance art has a long history dating back to the Greeks, I believe, but that doesn’t make watching it any easier. For viewers understand quickly that in these parables everything pales to the central question the story […]
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80 for Brady (2023) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Evidently women love football just as much as men do; at least that is true of the four female characters who lead 80 for Brady, which is inspired by a true story. This film boasts a whole lot of girl power; […]
Continue reading »The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) ☆ ☆ 1/2
I find it strange when movie stars portray fictionalized versions of themselves; thankfully it doesn’t happen very often. When it does, the results can be spectacularly weird and flamboyant (Being John Malkovich for one, this for another). I can report […]
Continue reading »Plane (2023) ☆ ☆ ☆
It’s always an interesting surprise when a film takes an unexpected turn. or heads off in a different direction. Sometimes it’s a good thing (Changeling, 2008), sometimes it’s a bad thing (Changeling, 2008) — depending on your point of view. […]
Continue reading »The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
Garnering nine Academy Award nominations, the Irish comedy-tragedy The Banshees of Inisherin has become one of 2022’s must-see movies. I missed it the first time around but finally saw it last night. It is not what I expected. Martin McDonagh’s film […]
Continue reading »Living (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
It wasn’t until the opening credits rolled that I realized that Living was an English-language remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952). That makes it a big deal; I saw Ikiru in the early 1980s and immediately classified it as one of the greatest […]
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