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My Favorite Movies: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

My Favorite Movies: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

Martin Scorsese took an approach to the mindset of Jesus Christ that few other filmmakers have dared: to examine the most famous, and yet oddly illusive, person in all of human history, a man that we have been taught from childhood was both God and man and examine how Jesus must have felt about his […]

| September 12, 2024
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My Favorite Movies: Sita Sings the Blues (2009)

My Favorite Movies: Sita Sings the Blues (2009)

One of the most wonderful and joyous musical comedies that I have ever seen was also one of the biggest coups by any film artist in history. Writer-director Nina Paley spent four years making Sita Sings the Blues on her own computer, and used the film as a weapon in a personal battle against the […]

| September 12, 2024
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Public Defender (2024)

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Public Defender (2024)

It is not a job that anyone would be angling for.  Who wants to be the public defender fighting for those going to trial for their involvement in the January 6th riots.  It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it.  And, in Andrea Kalin’s documentary Public Defender that person is Heather Shaner, a […]

| August 26, 2024
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The Herricanes (2024)

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The Herricanes (2024)

Did you know there was a women’s football league in the laye 70s that played for four seasons? Neither did I, but given the tow-hold that women have been struggling to gain in every male-dominated field since the women’s movement of the early 1970s, it didn’t surprise me. But yes, just like A League of their […]

| August 26, 2024
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My Name is Alfred Hitchcock (2024)

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My Name is Alfred Hitchcock (2024)

Safe to say that no filmmaker in the history of the medium had a better understanding of his audience than Sir Alfred Hitchcock.  Hitch had us by the throat.  He famously said that he played his audience like a piano, and mercifully, he played tunes worth listening to.  His films were approachable perhaps in the […]

| August 26, 2024
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Micro Budget (2024)

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Micro Budget (2024)

Micro Budget is a rambunctious comedy with the same absurdist flow as something like “Parks and Rec” or “The Office” or about 90% of what is currently on “Saturday Night Live” if you shave off the persistent political stuff.  It’s a very funny movie that feels like a modern TV sitcom, which is both a […]

| August 26, 2024
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Starring Jerry as Himself

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Starring Jerry as Himself

When you find something that you love, you tend to given in to the temptation to want to become a connoisseur.  That’s kind of how I feel about documentaries, possibly my favorite genre.  I could watch an entire marathon of documentaries and, in fact, at this year’s Sidewalk Film Festival, I gave an entire day […]

| August 26, 2024
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A Song for Imogene (2024)

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A Song for Imogene (2024)

Sometimes you can just feel a movie before it really gets underway.  You can feel the tone that its going for and the world that its characters inhabit.  It reminds me how generic most movies are, taking place in drab, non-descript locations where hardly any life is taking place outside of the characters central problems.  […]

| August 26, 2024
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