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Great – if sadly flawed – exploration of the early California oil industry, dramatized through the exploits of an entrepreneurial ogre. A Chinatown for Oil, the movie serves as fascinating Golden State period piece and socialist screed, decrying the imagined crimes of tycoons as it celebrates … |
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There’s No Business Like Show Business and there was no show business phonier than vaudeville, till movies. So an overtly phony movie about vaudeville makes for a phony convergence. It was perhaps the last of the musical extravaganzas, a calorically rich compendium of Irving Berlin’s showstoppi…
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Marilyn Monroe & Donald O'Connor: Sta...
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Once in a while a different movie comes along delivering a new memory from the theatre, exploring new dimensions of the human experience in a different but refreshing way. Third Person achieves that result. It is a romantic drama distorted by the extremes in emphasis, not enough character devel…
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A story about a troubled kid growing up in England in the early 80’s and indoctrinated into a band of kids flirting and conflicting with the skinhead movement rebelling against poverty and perceived stupidity like the Faulklands war. I can’t claim to know if the movie was true to "being in Engl… |
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This oddly titled gem is a crazy crime movie from MidAmerica, set in fictional Ebbing, Missouri, not in Fargo, North Dakota, or Hibbing, Minnesota, or a real hicksville you may know in the Central Time Zone. Forbidding title aside, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing is readily accessible and se…
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Thunderbolt And Lightfoot still entertains nearly half a century after it premiered. The star power of Clint Eastwood and a young Jeff Bridges see to that, as does a cockamamy story about Montana bank robbers. Mostly it’s a first-rate buddy picture, not unlikely buddies but very likely budd… |
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Gere shows a new dramatic side in Time Out of Mind, and it is worth checking it out. Who knew such a polished Holywood-ite could do homeless so well. Alongside are greats Ben Vereen, Steve Buscemi, and Kyra Sedgwick to let us all in on the life of a man made homeless due to mental illness. Agai… |