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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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Five Cent Cine (At Home): Mangrove
“Mangrove” is the first of five BBC-produced TV films by director Steve McQueen (“12 Years a Slave,” 2014 Oscar for Best Picture), who turns his […]
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Five Cent Cine (At Home): Mank
The theme of monkeys runs through “Mank,” most pointedly when William Randolph Hearst (he of newspaper fame) explains the story of the monkey and the […]
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Tim Wardle’s “Three Identical Strangers” starts simply enough with the 1980 meeting of identical triplets who, until they are 19, do not know they have […]
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Halloween is going to be a lot different in 2020, there is no doubt. That said, there are so many businesses and organizations that are […]
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Five Cent Cine (At Home): Martin Eden
“Martin Eden” opens with archival footage of a May 1, 1920 workers’ day celebration in an Italian city and closes with an old man walking […]
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Five Cent Cine At Home: Cuties
Amy (pronounced ah’-mee, Fathia Youssouf) is just 11, but her life has become unusually complex and difficult. A Senegalese Muslim immigrant in France, she’s coming […]