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Love and Mercy (2014)
The Life, Love and Genius of Brian Wilson
Filmmaker(s): Bill Pohlad
Drama
Music
History

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the sway of a controlling therapist, he finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.

22 Aug

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The Sergeant’s Retreat scriptwriter’s obligation is to sketch a world that has enough definition for us to inhabit and understand the influences on the characters within. The default is to make that world simple so we do the least work in engaging. That’s what they...


Published August 22, 2024
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Twisters (2024)
Chase. Ride. Survive.
Filmmaker(s): Lee Isaac Chung
Action
Adventure
Drama
Thriller

As storm season intensifies, the paths of former storm chaser Kate Carter and reckless social-media superstar Tyler Owens collide when terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed. The pair and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.

25 Aug

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Surrey with the Fringe on Top might be enough to build a movie around special effects that don’t involve a fight or monsters. These usually fall into the catastrophe category. The key to that category it seems, is the noir necessity that the catastrophe happens...


Published August 25, 2024
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Man from Reno (2014)
The greatest mystery she's ever written. And it could be her last…
Filmmaker(s): Dave Boyle
Mystery
Drama
Crime
Thriller

A mystery outside of San Francisco brings together small-town sheriff Paul Del Moral, Japanese author Aki Akahori, and a traveler from Reno who soon disappears, leaving behind his suitcase and a trail of questions.

20 Sep

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Shell Game I continue to find comments original posted to IMDB, deleted because of a complaint by an unseen adversary — and therefore lost. However, a re-viewing brings this later comment. Spoilers here. This is much like ‘Chinatown’ with some ‘Vertigo’ mixed in. Both noirs of...


Published September 20, 2024
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Titanic (1997)
Nothing on Earth could come between them.
Filmmaker(s): James Cameron
Drama
Romance

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

22 Sep

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The Huge Machine admit to a certain admiration of Cameron. Alone among special effects manipulators, he has a solid sense of what works cinematically. When he invests, he invests in a world. That world envelops us with its completeness and magnitude. It is the opposite...


Published September 22, 2024
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Lola (2022)
Making history will never be the same again
Filmmaker(s): Andrew Legge
Drama
Science Fiction
War

Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, two ingenious sisters, create LOLA, a miraculous machine.

22 Oct

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Retroactive Reinterpretation you should know this comment is written after a long break from lucidly watching serious movies, as my current movie time is often guided to mainstream films. I am giving this film a four, because it is one of the two from 2022...


Published October 22, 2024
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The Hateful Eight (2015)
No one comes up here without a damn good reason.
Filmmaker(s): Quentin Tarantino
Drama
Mystery
Western

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

29 Oct

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Samsinging use Apple products. I probably would use them even if the experience were poor, if they didn’t give utility, purely because of the privacy issue. But they do give pleasure. Some of that pleasure is in the absolute quality of the user experience. I...


Published October 29, 2024
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Body of Evidence (1993)
An act of love, or an act of murder?
Filmmaker(s): Uli Edel
Drama
Thriller
Romance

When an elderly millionaire is found dead with cocaine in his system, his will leaves $8 million to Rebecca Carlson, who was having an affair with him. District attorney Robert Garrett decides to prosecute Rebecca, arguing that she deliberately engaged in wild sex with the old man to overexcite him and lead to his premature death. Defense attorney Frank Dulaney defends Rebecca in court while getting sucked into a dangerous affair with her.

23 Nov

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Whipped often run across movies where the idea of the thing is much richer than the thing itself. In this case, the idea starts with that narrative battleground, the trial. Trial movies are cool, the best solution to the untrusted narrator problem. In this case,...


Published November 23, 2024
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Blow Up (1966)
Sometimes, reality is the strangest fantasy of all.
Filmmaker(s): Michelangelo Antonioni
Drama
Mystery
Thriller

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

23 Nov

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Double Folding consider this a fine example of a doubly folded film. The first fold is the much commented fold between the filmmaker and his chief character. Some rather obvious matters of reality and the projected image are explored. You can read about them in...


Published November 23, 2024
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Room in Rome (2010)
A night of passion that will change their lives.
Filmmaker(s): Julio Medem
Drama
Romance

A hotel room in the center of Rome serves as the setting for Alba and Natasha, two sexy and recently acquainted women, to have a physical adventure that touches their very souls.

30 Nov

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Maps, Mirrors there is a spoiler alert on this comment and I urge you to take it seriously. You must see this, then come back. The comment below talks about structure, as my comments usually do. The structure should not be apparent to you before you...


Published November 30, 2024
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Broken Embraces (2009)
Passion, obsession, wealth, jealousy, family, guilt, and creativity.
Filmmaker(s): Pedro Almodóvar
Drama
Romance
Thriller

Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.

30 Nov

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Blind Onion usual, Pedro builds layer upon layer of introspective insight. As before we have love, image, image as love through the eyes of a filmmaker, love as obsession, obsessions of the filmmaker's eye, and that imposed on the love discovered/portrayed. This time the layering is...


Published November 30, 2024
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