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![]() Their Finest is an exceptionally fine movie, a post-modern take on the decidedly earnest Greatest Generation, British variety. Unfortunately, it takes exceptional effort to find a theater where it’s playing. Speaking of exceptional, Gemma Arterton, Sam Clafin and Bill Nighy are exceptionally…
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Bill Nighy steals the show as a minor...
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![]() This is a ‘chick flick’ with a Texas style kick, and enough to keep us guys plenty entertained. Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, in what begins as a seemingly straight forward movie about two young women out to escape the drudgery of their day to day lives, turns in to a character study of women w… |
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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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![]() 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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