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Film Review: “The Scary of Sixty-First” — “Give up your shitposts which are completely useless…”

November 24, 2021
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This isn’t so much a movie as it is a micro-budget prank, and I must respect the hustle Dasha Nekrasova is pulling here even if it’s not in good taste.

Film Review: “C’mon c’mon” — Taking Care of Kids

November 21, 2021
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For a movie starring a kid, this one is adroitly crafted and goes easy on the treacle.

Film Review: “Karen Dalton: In My Own Time” – (One-of-a-kind musical find)

November 18, 2021
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Singular folksinger Karen Dalton never made it to the big time. A new documentary suggests why.

Film Review: “Film About a Father Who” — Daddy Lessons

November 16, 2021
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Rather than directly interviewing her father about his life, Lynne decided to take a more peripheral approach in order to figure out what makes her dear old dad tick.

Film Review: “Belfast’ — Black and White and Rosy All Over

November 16, 2021
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Belfast is overly sentimental and drenched if not drowned in nostalgia, but it’s also very sweet, uplifting, well-paced, beautifully shot, and competently assembled.

Film Review: “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain” — Do Englishmen Dream of Electric Cats? One Did.

November 7, 2021
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This wholly original period piece crackles with energy, humor, and pathos.

Film Interview: Foster Hirsch on “Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King”

November 4, 2021
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“I’m hoping people will revisit Otto Preminger’s movies because he made some of the best films ever made in America.”

Film Review: “Spencer” — Royal Damsel in Distress

November 4, 2021
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This portrait of Princess Diana interweaves facts with fantasies to create an impressionistic profile of a troubled woman trapped in a golden cage.

Film Review: “Terra Femme” — Only Connect…

November 3, 2021
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Collectively, Terra Femme’s footage provides a window — or really, a suite of windows — that allows us to view a bygone world through the eyes of silent female gazers.

Film Review: Chronicle of a Movie Never Made – “Speer Goes to Hollywood”

November 2, 2021
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Albert Speer’s reputation as a “good Nazi” was this architect’s postwar monument. He spent as much time burnishing that brand after prison as he did when he was rising through the Nazi ranks.

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