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Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 8

January 25, 2021 0 Comments

This week's picks include classics and cult faves. There's only one foreign film in the bunch for a change of pace. Two of the films come from the same director,…

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Review: Our Friend

January 19, 2021 0 Comments

Read this first. It's the Esquire article on which Our Friend is based. The writer is Matthew Teague, a journalist who wrote an essay about the slow and painful death…

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Review: One Night in Miami

January 14, 2021 0 Comments

Academy Award winning actress Regina King's extraordinary directorial debut is an adaptation of a play that tells the story of one evening in 1964 when four African-American icons get together…

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Review: Wonder Woman 1984

December 23, 2020 0 Comments

Wonder Woman 1984 is the first movie released mid-pandemic for which I was sorely tempted to mask up and venture into a theater. Really glad I didn't. Lasso of truth:…

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Review: The Midnight Sky

December 23, 2020 0 Comments

Not sure what George Clooney thought he was making, but this post-apocalyptic drama is a slog. In it a heavily bearded Augustine Lofthouse (Clooney) is left behind at an arctic…

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Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 6

December 22, 2020 0 Comments

This week's picks include two French films that couldn't be more dissimilar, one a psychological thriller, and the other a magical story set in Paris. There's an Italian ode to…

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Review: News of the World

December 22, 2020 0 Comments

Why does Tom Hanks make everything just a bit more comforting? In his latest, he plays Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a Civil War veteran who travels from town to town…

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Review: First Cow

December 20, 2020 0 Comments

Sometime in the early 19th century somewhere in the Pacific Northwest two men meet in the woods near a trappers' encampment. One of them is naked. What follows is the…

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Review: Wild Mountain Thyme

December 9, 2020 0 Comments

Adapted from a play that director John Patrick Shanley (Moonstruck, Doubt) wrote about his own Irish family, Wild Mountain Thyme is a sweet and funny tale of a couple destined…

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Review: Funny Boy

December 8, 2020 0 Comments

Set in Sri Lanka in the 70s and 80s, Funny Boy begins as a gay coming-of-age drama, and it is that, but it's also the story of the violent Sinhalese/Tamil…

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Review: Nomadland

December 2, 2020 0 Comments

Nomadland is not a film that is easy to categorize. It's a hybrid drama/documentary, an adaptation of the non-fiction book "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century", centered on a…

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Netflix Picks: The Life Ahead for a good cry; Other stuff for escapist fluff

November 25, 2020 0 Comments

I helped myself to a triple serving of Netflix this week and I got it all - a healthy protein, (The Life Ahead), a tasty side dish filled with empty…

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Review: The Personal History of David Copperfield

November 25, 2020 0 Comments

Some stories seem to attract actors and directors over and over, year after year. Charles Dickens' semi-autobiographical "David Copperfield" is one of those. It's been adapted for the screen at…

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Review: The Last Vermeer

November 17, 2020 0 Comments

The Last Vermeer is part arty and part mainstream, with familiar elements of both a post-WWII period drama and a courtroom drama. I liked it okay, but couldn’t help feeling…

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Cinema Clash Podcast: The Climb, Come Away

November 14, 2020 0 Comments

I wasn't blown away by Come Away. But I was somewhat entertained by The Climb. To find out why, tune in to this edition of the Cinema Clash podcast! Charlie…