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The Woman in Red (1984)
He's head over heels and headed straight for trouble!
Filmmaker(s): Gene Wilder
Comedy
Romance

When a happily married family man, who would never consider an affair, meets a beautiful woman in red, he is totally infatuated and desperate to make her acquaintance. However, as he tries out various schemes to sneak out to meet her, he realizes that adultery is not quite as easy as it looks.

16 Feb

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Different Favorite Color Some movies are good, most not. Of the ones that are not, they still can be fun. This project made money when it was new, but is now not only unengaging but repulsive. Why is actually engaging, because it just cannot be explained...


Published February 16, 2024
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Miss Marple: The Body in the Library (1984)
Filmmaker(s): Giorgi Ovashvili
Crime
Drama
Mystery

Amateur detective Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young woman whose body is found in the library at Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Arthur Bantry.

01 Feb

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The Switch Detective mysteries are one of the most lavishly adventuresome experiences in literature, if one is interested in how narratives are constructed. The contract between reader and writer is rather complex, often involving virtual contracts with some of the characters as well. Christie is a...


Published February 1, 2024
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Blood Simple (1984)
Breaking up is hard to do.
Filmmaker(s): Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Crime
Drama
Thriller

The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

20 Jan

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Good Study The Coens are like Soderbergh, they alternate between risky adventures and “commercial” projects. Only in the Coens’ world, it is not so much a matter of commercialism but a matter of respect for the genre. Half of their films are profoundly layered, with a...


Published January 20, 2024
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A Girl’s Own Story (1984)
Filmmaker(s): Jane Campion
Drama

This early short from director Jane Campion concerns a group of teenage girls in the 1960s.

24 Dec

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Her Very Own I recently watched “In the Cut,” and found its connectives strange and exciting. So I went to this to see them when young and raw. Supposedly, this is Campion’s first long form film. It didn’t quite work as a film the first time because...


Published December 24, 2022
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1984 (1984)
George Orwell's terrifying vision comes to the screen.
Filmmaker(s): Michael Radford
Drama
Science Fiction
Romance

George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

15 Dec

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Is What It Shows It is a pet peeve of mine to discover films whose point is undermined by its container. Most of these are the trivial case of movies about taking chances and being unique, but the form of the movie is the complete opposite. What...


Published December 15, 2022
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