Reviews – Picard, Togo, The Aeronauts; Top Movies of the Decade, War Movie Trivia Answers, New Releases, and Ninja News
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Last Friday, I was a guest on *Scott Coon’s site *for the Little Create
Interview – five simple questions, five interesting answers. Check it out!
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‘Minari’: Steven Yeun Holds On In This Exquisite Family Drama [Sundance Review] - [image: Steven Yeun, Alan Kim, Minari][image: ‘Minari’: Steven Yeun Holds On In This Exquisite Family Drama [Sundance Review]] PARK CITY – Minari is an her...
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"Zola" has to be seen to be believed. - *Murtada Elfadl reporting from Sundance* Maybe it was the 10th time director Janicza Bravo used a freeze frame to reframe the wild weekend tale she’s tel...
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New Releases that look interesting - The following films are ones I am adding to my "To-See" and "Maybe" lists. The ratings and synopsis below are from critics from RogerEbert.com *Documentary...
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Doctor Who: Fugitive of the Judoon (Review) - The Next Doctor.
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FlixChatter Review – Bad Boys For Life (2020) - The original script of Bad Boys was written for Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz, for the youngsters out there, Carvey and Lovitz were quite popular comedians ba...
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PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD WITH DEV PATEL, TILDA SWINTON, HUGH LAURIE, ANEURIN BARNARD, BEN WHISHAW - * 'THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD' COMEDY * The movie opened in UK this weekendFROM RAGS TO RICHES AND BACK AGAIN *This *one has been critici...
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[2.00/10] Cats (2019) - *Cats (2019)* *Quick Review:* With awful musical numbers consisting of poor singing and even worse dancing, which fail miserably to make up for the lack o...
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weaponized boredom links - ---"Nondigital surveillance is weaponized boredom" --from William Gibson's excellent new novel *Agency* ---"How AI Will Turn Us All Into Filmmakers" by Cl...
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3 Best Online Games For Film Addicts - Are you a self-confessed film addict? Do you also just so happen to be an avid gamer?...
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Books I Read In 2019 - We could talk about how much I slacked in the reading department this year, but I'm already wearing the cone of shame. Here's what I did manage to read i...
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Conflict Thesaurus Entry: Doing Something Stupid While Impaired - Conflict is very often the magic sauce for generating tension and turning a ho-hum story into one that rivets readers. As such, every scene should contai...
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Friday's Old Fashioned: Murder on the Orient Express (1974) - Sidney Lumet’s 1974 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” is notable for its frequent exterior shots of the eponymous long-distanc...
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Jojo Rabbit - *Jojo Rabbit* seen @ Kew Gardens Cinemas, Kew Gardens, Queens, NY Last month I had said I didn’t find *Knives Out* as funny as other people did and I ques...
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An Unwelcome Review, Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar and On the Waterfront Evokes My Childhood and as a Bonus a Poetry Book is Recommended) - From On the WaterfrontI was asked today what I thought of the film 1917. I replied that I had found it entertaining and a technically outstanding film but...
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TUMP [EP#333 – AMERICAN BEAUTY] - As we roll into the new decade we decided to slide in quietly with not just a really long episode; but one in which we deliberate over the beginning of Sam...
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Review | Beanpole | 2020 - Viktoria Miroshnichenko and Vasilisa Perelygina in a scene from Beanpole, courtesy Kino Lorber.It isn't often that you see a debut film so assured in styl...
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Interview…Giancarlo Vulcano on the Surrealism of USA’s ‘Briarpatch’ - Composer Giancarlo Vulcano has years of experience in television writing music for long running series. The trick, so he tells us, is to have a system to g...
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Episode 239 – UNCUT GEMS - Talkin’ The Safdie Bros’ new film with Kelly Zemnickis.
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Quick and Messy Oscar Predix - while the Hollmann Award nominations are still on everyone's mind, we must remember that the Academy Awards are announcing *their* nominees tomorrow - copy...
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Dracula (2020) Netflix series by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss - *Spoilers galore.* This version of Dracula can be lauded for playing with all the tropes and original story elements in new and surprising ways. As a thr...
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Where Has The Entertainment Junkie Been For the Last Year? - Hello again, one and all (and possibly only one)! There hasn't been much activity in these parts over the last few years, as I'm sure you've noticed. I'm n...
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Golden Globe 2020 Predictions - I've been sadly rather neglectful of my blog of late (I'm been *extremely* busy at work!), but one thing I will *always* find time for, no matter what, is ...
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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women - There's a sense of serendipity in that the same year Wonder Woman *finally* got the big-screen treatment with her own movie, the story behind her creation ...
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CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010, France) - An author an his nameless companion spend an afternoon immersed in an imitation marriage, a certifiably tumultuous affair, an emotional tsunami that dest...