Thursday, October 2, 2025

STRAIGHT SHOOTING (1917)

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With only five two-reelers under his belt, novice director John (‘Jack’) Ford, and regular lead Harry Carey, got carried away on the sixth, ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (2025)

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Best of the recent Animation-to-Live-Action remakes?  We’ve missed (or rather avoided) too many for any definitive pronouncement.  In genera...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

PIANOFORTE (2023)

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Inspired by Poland’s Olympics debut in 1924, the International Chopin Piano Competition started in 1925, returning every five-years, (Octobe...
Monday, September 29, 2025

THE ORDER (2024)

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True Story from the early 1980s: seasoned F.B.I. agent Jude Law is on his own when he starts to investigate a series of bank robberies &...
Sunday, September 28, 2025

THE KING OF KINGS (2025)

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Less ‘Good News’ Gospel than indigestible kiddie indoctrination; Christian pablum served in cutesy CGI animation that’s blocky & unattra...
Saturday, September 27, 2025

LINDA (1929)

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Fascinating on many levels.  If only it were a better film!  Directed by Dorothy Davenport, one of Hollywood’s few female directors at the t...
Friday, September 26, 2025

TWILIGHT (1998)

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Paul Newman, novelist Richard Russo and co-scripter/director Robert Benton knew they’d pulled off something special in NOBODY’S FOOL/’94, an...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

ONE FINE DAY (1979)

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Playwright Laureate isn’t a thing, but if it was, Alan Bennett is a lock for the British shortlist.  With a major film out in November (THE ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

POWER (1986)

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Apparently, vet NYC director Sidney Lumet was ‘shocked, shocked’ to learn that politicians often say things they don’t believe just to get e...