VOD Review – The Second Age of Aquarius
Film review of THE SECOND AGE OF AQUARIUS directed by Staci Layne Wilson
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Essential Series – High Fidelity
For the better part of 20 years I have tried to make High Fidelity the first movie I watch every year. It is one of my absolute favorites.
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I remember the moment that I learned about the new HBO show, Barry. It is about a hitman, named Barry, who wants to become an actor, and his is portrayed by one of my favorite Saturday Night Live cast members, Bill Hader. The idea that Hader would play a want-to-be actor was fine, no doubt […]
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What would you do if you knew you were going to die? Would you give your life to someone else in exchange for a comfortable out?
Read more "Blu-ray Review – Joe versus the Volcano – Warner Archive"Blu-ray Review – Cinema Paradiso
On advice from counsel I am only watching the Theatrical cut. The Theatrical cut is perfect and it is strange to me that there would be an alternate.
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I watched this as a double feature with Richest Girl in the World and in this fell flat but with double features there is usually a winner and a loser.
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Last week Flicker Alley, in association with Blackhawk Films Collection, released Children of Divorce directed by Frank Lloyd and Josef von Sternberg. The 1927 film starring “IT” girl Clara Bow is now, for the first time, available in a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack. The film is an adaptation of Owen Johnson’s novel of the same name. […]
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Do the Right Thing is a film about race in New York City in 1989. The film is about a day in the life of a the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of New York City.do-the-right-thing-DI The first two-thirds of the film is built similarly to many small-town films of the past, the Last Picture Show comes to mind, and is a fairly solid comedy film, through which you meet the cast and learn a little of their lives. In the last act everything everything changes; it is a mirror between the late 80s, now, and, sadly, every other time in American society.
Read more "Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing"Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid
Oh my God, are they going to kill that kid? No, oh good because that is not what I signed up for. After the credits the first inter-title states, “A picture with a smile – and perhaps, a tear,” so I was genuinely stunned when the tough pulled his revolver on the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes. Soon, though, my laughter started to gain steam until I was on a giggle course straight through to the dream sequence.
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The first time I watched Dr Strangelove I laughed uncontrollably, I was young. This time while watching I did laugh, but I realized that this movie is much more terrifying than other Kubrick films, notably The Shining and Clockwork Orange.
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