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Five Cent Cine (At Home): Minari
At the heart of the mythology of the American frontier is a family—struggling, in relative isolation but cooperatively—to wrest a living, and a life, from […]
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Five Cent Cine (At Home): Another Round
Excessive drinking and existential angst, two characteristics of Danish life—according to the Danes—are stirred and mixed well in award-winning Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film. […]
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In the “By the Book” author interviews in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, the paper’s editors usually ask the interviewee to assemble a […]
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A couple of years back, I posted on the efforts of Rick Masi, Executive Producer of the 80’s hard rock/hair metal band film, Turn Up […]
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The moral core is slow in coming in this film version of August Wilson’s 1982 play, the first of his 10-play “Pittsburgh Cycle” about black […]
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Five Cent Cine (At Home): The Favourite
The trailer markets “The Favourite” as British court farce, with clips of lavishly dressed scene-eaters. Ever-challenging director Yorgos Lanthimos, however, turns the genre on its […]
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If there was ever a rock star that would make for an outrageous film character, it would have to be Rick James. The legendary Buffalo […]