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    Genius - A Sea of Words and Thomas Wolfe

    When I saw that this was coming, I was intrigued. On the one hand, it’s a movie that portrays my 3 favorite writers, Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald, along with their Scribner’s editor, Max Perkins. Most of the movie centered on Wolf and his relationship with Perkins. On...
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    Love and Friendship - AKA, The Return of Jane Austin

    Being somewhat spandex fatigued by summer superhero movies, it seemed like time for something very different, so we decided to be about as different from Captain America as the current film offerings would allow. A new movie, “Love and Friendship” was starting at our local art house. The film...
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    The Family Fang

    The Family Fang - One of the oddest movies I’ve seen recently It’s movie time again and the cineplexes are brimming with fans and repeated showings of the first crop of summer super hero movies. I just was NOT In the mood for more spandex, so we tried this at random. The Family Fang was based...
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    Miles Ahead - A Maybe For Jazz Fans?

    Miles Ahead is not a conventional linear biopic. Instead, it leaps back and forth between several time periods in the life of this amazing jazz innovator. The real Miles Davis was a a seemingly inscrutable character, obviously musically brilliant but with a very disorderly personality. His...
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    Midnight Special - Strange Happenings in the Gulf Coast

    Midnight Special is the third feature I’ve seen that was written and directed by Jeff Nichols. Nichols seems to have a razor edged feel for dark side of the southern heartland. His previous films, Mud (starring Matthew McConaughy (before he dedicated his life to adjusting his cufflinks inside...
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    Hello, My Name is Doris - Time for a strange Rom-Com

    So, just who is Doris? We immediately recognize her as Sally Field, veteran of many movies and TV shows, all the way back to her teen years as Gidget and one of the all time oddest TV shows, The Flying Nun. In this movie, she is Doris Miller, somewhere in her unflattering 60’s. She is doing...
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    10 Cloverfield Lane

    The name 10 Cloverfield Lane was obviously intended to suggest something, but what? This film seems like a mashup of Cloverfield suggestions, with a strong hint of Room and The Witch. Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), is driving along an unremarkable rural road in Louisiana when she’s hit by...
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    Zootopia

    Well…it was a slow week for new movies, so we decided to do something we hadn’t done for a while, like see an animated Disney movie. I was somewhat interested because it’s been sitting at 99% on Rotten Tomatoes and 8.3 on IMDB….what’s going on here? I knew what to expect, having done the...
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    Eddie The Eagle - Your Feel-Good movie of the week.

    If you’ve been around long enough and pay attention to all of the Olympic hoo-raw, you would probably recall an unusual event in the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, like big rounds of applause for a guy on the British ski jumping team who came in dead last, by a large margin. That guy was Micheal...
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    The Witch - Is it a horror movie or a horrifying movie?

    The Witch is the mainstream directorial debut of Robert Eggers, and, what a start! This film is being categorized as horror movie, but I don’t think that is exactly right. It certainly is scary, creepy and full of suspense, but the usual cheesy devices of horror moves are not present...
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    The Big Short - A Horror Movie About Money

    For anybody that was aware in 2008, The Crash was a scary event. It seemed as though the bottom was dropping out of the US economy, taking the world with it. You might recall that the media talked a lot about things like credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligation and shorting. It...
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    Hail Caesar!

    Hail Caesar! - The Myth of Hollywood I have to preface that by admitting that I have enjoyed nearly all of the Coen Brothers’ movies, and their loose grip on some combination of truth, fiction and outright fantasy, combined with sarcasm and wit. They are a metaphor for Hollywood, which never...
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    The Finest Hours - Heroism in action

    It was movie time, but due to the antics of the recent nor’easter Jonas, several of our regular theaters were still snowed in, so out we go to the recently plowed cineplex, which is mainly showing films we have already seen. What we had not seen was The Finest Hours, which received middling...
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    The Revenant - Everything and Everybody out there in the wilderness WANTS to kill YOU.

    The Revenant - Everything and Everybody out there in the wilderness WANTS to kill YOU. The Revenant is the latest film from Alejandro Inarritu, following up on his Oscar winning Birdman and other similarly intense movies like 21 Grams and Babel. It’s also a word meaning “one who returns after...
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    Concussion - The NFL Takes a Big Hit

    Concussion hit our area theaters recently and seemed like a change from the usual holiday fare, so we tried it. The story revolves around an actual Nigerian doctor, Dr. Bennet Omalu, played by Will Smith. Omalu has multiple medical degrees and was working as a forensic pathologist, doing...
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    Star Wars: The Force Awakens - and the series re-awakens *(spoilers)

    We’ve had the Star Wars universe around for 38 years now, longer than we’ve had a significant part of our population. More than any other film franchise, it’s spawned games, t-shirts, costumes, books, global brand recognition and sold an uncountable number of theater seats. And, yet, the...
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    Macbeth - A New Film Adaptation

    There’s a long history of film versions of Shakespeare plays, including 8 versions of Macbeth, another coming next year and even a Japanese version by Kurosawa, Throne of Blood. This year’s adaptation was directed by Justin Kurzel, a director that I’m not familiar with, stars Micheal...
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    In The Heart of the Sea

    Spoiler Alert - In case you never heard of this story… When I was in school, I remember being twice assigned to read Moby D*ck (this forum blocks the name of one of the classics of American literature...it's not a reference to male anatomy), one of the great American novels. It’s one of those...
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    Spotlight

    Spotlight - In the tradition of newspaper expose movies Spotlight is the latest in a series of one-word-title, excellent, late year movie releases that have included Trumbo and Room. Newspaper and broadcast expose movies have a long history in film. If the expose is about a real story, as in...
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    Trumbo - Hollywood unravels during the Red Scare

    Trumbo Our latest outing was to see Trumbo, an excellently witty film about the eccentric writer Dalton Trumbo, a prolific movie writer who was driven out of Hollywood and blacklisted during the McCarthy era for communist associations. It follows his years “ghosting” movies and his eventual...
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