Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Part Exposition, Part Canonization

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     I’ve just seen Dinesh D’Souza’s “docudrama” Death Of A Nation, and I thought it important to set down my thoughts about it before they...
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Friday, July 6, 2018

Humanity Denied And Rights Suppressed, Yet Resurgent And Triumphant

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     The fiction of Philip K. Dick, gone from us these past thirty-six years, has inspired a multitude of paeans and some of the best visu...
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Monday, April 2, 2018

Video Games, Movies, And Sex

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     The C.S.O. and I went to see the new Tomb Raider movie recently, and enjoyed it. Mind you, it’s not Citizen Kane or Gone With The Win...
Sunday, July 30, 2017

“Atomic Blonde”

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     Remember Eighties spy thriller movies? The intrigue, the plots and counterplots, the betrayals, the glorious violence? Well, they’re ba...
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Friday, June 16, 2017

A Public Service Announcement

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     Perhaps my guiltiest pleasure is really silly movies: movies of such cartoonish implausibility that complete (albeit temporary) paralys...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

“Passengers,” A Review

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     There isn’t much the “critics” can say that will deter the C.S.O. or me from enjoying some bit of entertainment. In the usual case, wha...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

A Movie That Begged To Be Made

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     Those of us who dream of eventually spreading Mankind to the stars have long hoped for some technology that would make the trip practic...
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Thursday, July 14, 2016

Would You Like To See

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     ...a movie about innovation?      ...a movie about guts under unimaginable pressure?      ...a movie about determination undaunted by...
Saturday, May 14, 2016

Quickies: Could It Happen Here?

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     Because it’s certainly happened elsewhere:      I hope this makes it to theaters on Long Island.
Monday, January 18, 2016

Ultra-Quickies: The Academy Awards Nominations

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     The recent publication of the nominations for the 2015 Academy Awards (“Oscars”) has prompted some sniping from the usual black raciali...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Quickies: Cinema And “Gender Politics”

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     These days Hollywood treads the politically-correct line almost perfectly. It can make moviegoing a problematic thing for someone who w...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Movie Recommendation: The Arroyo

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The Arroyo, from Declaration Entertainment Declaration Entertainment is Bill Whittle's gamble on a chancy proposition, to wit: Tha...
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