Week of March 22 – 28, 2020 Nostalgia fuels my fourth sheltering choice. When done right — and I think this film does it right — nostalgic movies can be amazingly comforting as well as brightly entertaining. I’ve loved My […]
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Sing Street (2016) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
Week of March 15 – 21, 2020 An Irish coming-of-age story with music at its core is my third choice as a movie to curl up with while having to remain at home. Sing Street may not be as good […]
Continue reading »It Should Happen to You (1954) ☆ ☆ ☆
Week of March 8 – 14, 2020 My second choice for a feel-good film is an oldie from 1954 with the stellar talents of comedienne Judy Holliday and a new face at that time, the one and only Jack Lemmon, […]
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As we are forced to abandon old habits and adapt to the strange new world of self-containment for the near future, many of us are bound to become bored and lean toward stir-craziness. It isn’t easy, but rest assured that […]
Continue reading »El Dorado (1967) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
Week of March 1 – 7, 2020 I’m beginning this new category with the 1967 western I’ve come to believe is my favorite John Wayne film, El Dorado. Readers with great memories may recall that I cited the 1962 western, […]
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Emma is the final “recent release” I shall probably review for a while, because within two days of that viewing, all the movie theaters around me, including the one at which I worked, closed due to the coronavirus scare. Naturally, […]
Continue reading »Emma. (2020) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Yes, I, a man, can enjoy an occasional Jane Austen-inspired movie, too. For instance, I highly recommend Pride and Prejudice (1940, with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier), Sense and Sensibility (1995, with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet) and Emma (1996, […]
Continue reading »The Gentlemen (2020) ☆ ☆ ☆
If Quentin Tarantino is truly to retire after one more film, then who will film fans turn to for their specialized thrills? How about Guy Ritchie, who delivers a very Tarantino-esque crime comedy / drama and has carved a fairly […]
Continue reading »Downhill (2020) ☆ ☆
Another character study, that unfortunately is not as illuminating, is the comedy-drama Downhill. It centers around one family on skiing vacation in Europe, and one very dramatic moment that changes everything for what seems to be an already troubled marriage. […]
Continue reading »The Two Popes (2019) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
This is not the kind of movie that I normally gravitate toward. I’m not very religious and largely distrust the Catholic hierarchy in Rome because of their horrible record regarding child molesting priests. Yet the intrigue of the Vatican is […]
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