After the last episode of this series, which I thought was one of the greatest action movies I have ever seen and rated it four stars, I expected greatness from this one, a film which may mark the end of […]

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It’s always a pleasure when a movie comes along and succeeds your expectations.  I wasn’t expecting much of this nondescript comedy-drama, which looked to be about the hazards of aging in America — something about which I am becoming all […]

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Regional films are a largely unsung and poorly remembered segment of American cinema.  These are films made by people outside of the usual Hollywood cadre, usually made on the cheap, using local scenery and color to tell stories with strong […]

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For a brief time writer-director M. Night Shyamalan was the toast of Hollywood, made so by the creative and commercial success of The Sixth Sense and a few other titles after that.  That was more than twenty years ago.  He has […]

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