The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
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Phantom Thread (2017)
Reynolds Woodcock is a genius with a needle and thread. As London’s top designer he works in women’s fashion the way that most artists work...
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)
At this point, the last two things that you might expect a Star Wars movie to be are unexpected and unpredictable. After ten theatrical features,...
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (2017)
It is disturbing how inherent violence is in the human collective. It is a never-ending cycle that goes round and round and will continue to...
Jackie (2016)
There is an odd musical cue at the very beginning of Pablo Larrain’s historical drama Jackie that sounds as if it might be more at...
Sidewalk Film Festival Retrospective #4: Gip (2016)
It is not exactly news to report that a very large, significant part of Alabama history is written in the African-American experience. From slavery, through...
The Jungle Book (2016)
It shouldn’t surprise anyone when Disney shamelessly toots its own horn. The legacy of this paragon of family entertainment has such a rich history and...
Amy (2015)
I have, for a long while, been critical of modern music which to these 40+ ears often sounds like the same song with the same...
