Intimate character studies such as The End of the Tour may not be particularly cinematic, but they can still be terrifically entertaining. In this case, Jason Segel portrays writer David Foster Wallace in 1996, soon after the publication of his acclaimed […]
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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Wow! The best movie I’ve seen all year is the fifth — yes, the fifth! — entry in a franchise that I have had real problems with since the beginning. Rogue Nation is a blast all the way through, with great […]
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Stop-motion animation has been around since the silents of the 1920s, made famous by practitioners such as Willis O’Brien, Ray Harryhausen, Will Vinton and Nick Park. Park works for Aardman Animation, the company that produced Chicken Run and the Wallace and […]
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Our fourth potential classic of 2015 is one of the more than one hundred film adaptations of the works of popular western author Zane Grey. Fighting Caravans (1931) is a wagon train story of pioneers crossing the West from Missouri to […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Chinatown (1974) Fighting Caravans (1931) Goodbye, My Lady (1956) Hamlet (1948) RoboCop (1987) I chose Fighting Caravans for a couple of reasons. It is […]
Continue reading »Irrational Man (2015) ☆ ☆ ☆
Woody Allen’s films are considered light entertainment, even when they delve into darker elements of human interaction. The newest example of this is Irrational Man, a comedic drama which follows a troubled philosophy professor to a summer gig at a […]
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Superheroes come in all shapes and sizes, and now one is the size of an ant. He is Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and he is an ex-con, an industrial cat burglar. Fate, in the form of Dr. Hank Pym (Michael […]
Continue reading »Trainwreck (2015) ☆ ☆ ☆
I have never been a big fan of Judd Apatow’s. I find his films to be crude, lewd and rude, without enough dramatic counterbalance. But perhaps I’ve been too rash in my dismissal of Apatow, because Trainwreck is somewhat different for […]
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We move from Italy to France with our third selection of the year, the musical comedy-drama Lili (1953). It’s an MGM musical, filmed at the California studio, but it certainly seems like France. Parisian-influenced films were certainly popular at the time, […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: The Best Man (1964) Lili (1953) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Running on Empty (1988) Union Station (1950) I chose Lili because it […]
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