Tim Jackson

Film Review: “Judy” — Far More Than Just Another Hollywood Tragedy

September 27, 2019
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As Judy Garland, Renée Zellweger is in a movie that doesn’t match her fine performance.

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Film Review: “Downton Abbey” — Revisiting Past Glory

September 24, 2019
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Why has Downton Abbey, the film and the series, been so successful? We are given a romanticized vision of essential ‘Britishness,’ a nostalgic version of the class system.

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Film Review: “Under the Silver Lake” — Through a Glass Blindly

July 14, 2019
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Under the Silver Lake would be infuriating were its Charlie Kaufman-inspired adventures not so entertaining.

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Film Review: “Crawl” — Home Invasion of the Creepy-Crawlies

July 13, 2019
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This is a perfect guilty pleasure, an old fashioned B-movie without a franchise, explosions, overly recognizable actors, or exhausting mano a mano violence.

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Film Review: Report from the 2019 Provincetown Film Festival, Part Two

June 26, 2019
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Finding independent films that may or may not receive wider distribution, as well as talking to filmmakers anxious to answer questions about their work, are great reasons to travel to the Provincetown Film Festival.

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Film Review: “The Dead Don’t Die” — A Zombie Jamboree

June 10, 2019
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The Dead Don’t Die is a satiric trifle, but a cleverly amusing one.

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Film Preview: “The Passion of Joan of Arc” — Silent Film Meets Opera

May 30, 2019
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This screening of Carl Dreyer’s classic film will offer some exceptional, and exciting, musical strengths.

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Film Review: “Photograph” — An Unforeseeable Romance

May 17, 2019
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In Photograph, embracing your roots can nurture love — in very unexpected ways.

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Film Review: “The Chaperone” — Smothered in the Spiffy

April 16, 2019
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The Chaperone plays like a sanitized look at female independence and sexual desire for the prudish over-50s crowd.

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Film Review: We are All “Us”

March 23, 2019
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Us is a comic-horror allegory about the revolution of the underclass.

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