Category Archives: Film

Movie Poster Potpourri

Posted on August 31, 2017 by

There’s no particular theme or category for this collection of film posters, other than they’re dynamic and dramatic. Some are foreign posters for American films, some are for films both well-known and obscure, and some are just weird, but they’re … Continue reading →

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Wind River: “Luck don’t live out here”

Posted on August 11, 2017 by

This is a good one. Based on his terrific screenplays for Sicario (2015) and Hell or High Water (2016), I was more than ready for Taylor Sheridan’s Wind River. It does not disappoint. After seeing Wind River on opening day … Continue reading →

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The Year So Far: Documentaries

Posted on July 16, 2017 by

There have been so many great documentaries in recent years. It’s an incredibly flexible art form. The following fourteen are the best of what I saw from January through June of this year. ______________________________________________________ Abacas: Small Enough to Jail (Steve … Continue reading →

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The Year So Far: Feature Films

Posted on July 9, 2017 by

The following feature films are some of the best that I’ve seen in the last six months. We’ll see how this shakes out at the end of the year, after six more months of movies. But in the meantime… Alien: … Continue reading →

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“Dawson City: Frozen Time” – Amazing!

Posted on June 8, 2017 by

Dawson City: Frozen Time is unlike any film you’re likely to have seen before. The discovery and subsequent restoration of 533 reels of 35mm nitrate film prints buried as landfill in a swimming pool provides the way into director Bill … Continue reading →

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Movie Tie-Ins: Novelizations & Comic Books

Posted on May 31, 2017 by

NOVELIZATIONS Film novelizations have been around since the 1920s, but it was in the 1950s, with the proliferation of mass-market paperbacks, that they began to appear in large numbers. This is when I started reading them. Novelizations, as you would … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Demme & Talking Heads – Burning Down the House

Posted on May 18, 2017 by

Until this past Sunday, the last time I’d seen Stop Making Sense in a theater was in 1999 during a 15th anniversary re-release at Film Forum. At that showing I looked around to check out the audience before the lights … Continue reading →

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