Gerald Peary

Film Review: More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place? Yep, It’s Stir-Crazy 10

October 12, 2020
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Covid-19 goes on, and, in public, our masked lives. At home, we can relax watching old movies. Here’s a 10th list of disparate favorites you can view on your computer.

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Film Review: “Save Yourselves!” — A Very Likable Sci-Fi Screwball Comedy

October 6, 2020
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I am a champion of “C” movie effects, the cheaper and clunkier the better. So huzzahs for Save Yourselves! and its tacky monsters from another planet.

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Film Review: Yet More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — It’s Stir-Crazy 9

September 16, 2020
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Five more feature films of great interest and their links, lovingly chosen to get you through the continuing travails of the coronavirus.

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Film Feature: Walking through Director John Ford’s Childhood Home — in Portland, ME

September 15, 2020
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“Did you know that film director John Ford lived in your apartment when a boy?”

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Film Remembrance: Death of a Bible “Salesman”

August 26, 2020
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The cinema verite masterpiece is among the first non-fiction theatrical features to chronicle “regular” people going about their everyday lives.

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Film Review: “An Easy Girl” — Finally, a Worthwhile Movie on Netflix

August 24, 2020
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So what’s up with the 16 year old Naima, who has been mostly watching and listening? Is it time for her to become an “adult”?

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Film Review: More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — Campus Best, Post 1980

August 22, 2020
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Let’s experience college nostalgically and vicariously, with this pick of the best college movies of the last 35 years.

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Film Review: Yet More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — It’s Stir-Crazy 8

August 21, 2020
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Five more feature films of great interest and their links, carefully chosen to get you through the continuing travails of the coronavirus.

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Film Review: More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — Campus Best, Pre-Pre-Covid

August 17, 2020
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A dozen feature films — none made less than 35 years ago — that best capture the American campus experience and spirit.

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Film Interview: Budd Schulberg on Being a Screenwriter in Hollywood

August 15, 2020
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“It’s really time for us to scrape off this cynicism and take a good hard look at what is happening in this country. There’s so much fakery and we don’t mind it.”

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