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Film Reviews: More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — Stir-Crazy 2

April 26, 2020
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Here are five more appealing feature films and their links, handpicked to get you pleasurably through the Covid-19 days. Two need to be rented, three are free.

Film Review: “To the Stars” — Girls Have It Tough

April 25, 2020
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To the Stars is a somewhat formulaic Middle America melodrama, enlivened by inspired and well-directed performances that infuse some radiant life into small town struggles.

Film Reviews: Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place

April 23, 2020
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How to avoid going stir-crazy: burrow into the thousands of films available to watch on your computer, most of them free or practically free.

Shelter in Place Attractions: Places to Find the Best Video Essays on Film

April 22, 2020
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Video essays have been characterized as “the articulation of thought in audiovisual form.”

Film Review: “We Summon the Darkness” — The Evil Eighties

April 17, 2020
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A fun and original slasher/romp that lovingly embraces a number of ’80s horror tropes.

Television Review: “The Virtues” — The Twisted Path to Redemption

April 4, 2020
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The pace of this superb mini-series is keyed to generating intimacy with the characters and their struggles.

Film Review: “Vivarium” — Sheltering in Place

March 31, 2020
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Vivarium offers such a completely well-thought out narrative that it hardly matters whether we are dealing with magic realism or a satirical fable.

Film Review: Recommendations — Architecture and Design Documentaries for the Housebound

March 29, 2020
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Films for those who practice — or are just interested in — design, architecture, and urban planning

WATCH CLOSELY: Peg’s Pandemic Picks — Medieval Plague Edition

March 18, 2020
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This new series will offer ideas for movies and series that have stories or themes at least marginally related to the pandemic we’re all living through.

Film Review: “Swallow” — Unknowable Appetites

March 14, 2020
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This carefully-crafted chamber piece revolves about a woman whose compulsion to eat non-edible things is both fascinating and disturbing.

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