Gerald Peary

Film Review: “Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter” — American Surrealism

March 25, 2015
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The Zellner brothers’ excellent film is inspired by a Japanese urban legend of a young woman who came to America supposedly because of Fargo, and then committed suicide in the snows.

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Film Review: “Timbuktu” — From Moderation to Totalitarianism

February 23, 2015
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Director Abderrahmane Sissako wants the viewer to have the golden-age city in mind when, today, 2015, we see how terrible life has become there.

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Fuse Book Review: “Wilde in America” — Not Wild Enough?

February 13, 2015
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What Oscar Wilde was peddling in America was beauty. Art for art’s sake. Gorgeous flowers. Ravishing colors.

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Fuse Film Review: 2015 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts — A Spotlight on Heroism

February 6, 2015
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These films demonstrate what’s often so great about documentaries: here’s where you find real courage and everyday heroism, and not in mythic, muscular, blockbusters.

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Book Review: “Silver Screen Fiend” — A Remembrance of Movie Madness Past

January 29, 2015
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Why did Patton Oswalt submit himself, for a time, to drowning in movies? I never quite understood that..

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Fuse Restaurant Review: Wasabi in North Cambridge — Superior Sushi

January 6, 2015
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What is served at Wasabi is so-o-o-o fresh.

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Film Review: Chris Rock’s “Top Five” — Only Funny on the Fringes

December 29, 2014
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Perhaps Top Five is Chris Rock’s penance for doing lucrative-paying voices for the insanely popular Madagascar animation franchise.

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Book Review: “Missing Reels” — Breezy Film Fiction

December 19, 2014
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Ace film blogger Farran Smith Nehme’s first novel grows directly out of her adoration of classic American cinema.

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Film Review: “Zero Motivation” — An Enthralling Hebraic Version of “M*A*S*H”

December 12, 2014
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Are men totally useless in Zero Motivation? Well, they can come in handy when you want to use one of them as a sexual object.

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Film Review: “The Homesman” — A Western That Rides into Thrilling and Unexpected Places

November 28, 2014
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Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman could have been an old-fashioned Hollywood Western. Thankfully, it isn’t.

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