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Film Review – Personal Shopper
Communication is a key factor in Olivier Assayas’ new movie Personal Shopper. Concepts of not just the means of communication but the reason for, and the things communicated during, are both subtly and prominently woven throughout the structure. Spiritualism is a religion that was formed…
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Film Review – Beauty and the Beast (2017) (Second Take)
“Delightfully nostalgic and artfully designed” From 101 Dalmatians (1996) to Alice in Wonderland (2010) to The Jungle Book (2016) comes Disney’s latest live-action adaptation of one of their classic and most loved animated films. Beauty and the Beast was one of my favorite films growing…
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SXSW Film Review – Most Beautiful Island
With all the talk about illegal immigration and homeland security these days, it’s hard to remember that many undocumented travelers come to the United States with pure intentions. This has always been a country of promise, where people from all over the world can escape…
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SXSW Film Review – Song of Granite
Joe Heaney was an Irish singer who specialized in traditional Irish folk music. Born in 1919, Heaney was shy at a young age. He started singing at five years old but did not sing in public until he was twenty. However, he developed a keen…
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SXSW Film Review – Flesh and Blood
Trying to be both a documentary and narrative film Flesh and Blood fails spectacularly at both. Going into this movie cold the first thought that came to me was is this a documentary? Because the acting by Cheri Honkala is really stilted. It’s as if…
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SXSW Film Review – Spettacolo
Every year, the medieval-built town of Montichiello, Tuscany puts on a show: an “auto-drama” in which many of the town’s 120-some residents act as themselves, in a play they wrote, about their own lives. The documentary Spettacolo chronicles a year in the life of the…
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SXSW Film Review – Us and Them
Us and Them (2017) starts out seemingly as a biting satire about class warfare. You know the story: a person of low economic stature feeling like they got the short shrift out of life butting heads against a rich person who savors all the privileges…
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Film Review – The Ottoman Lieutenant
I am a sucker for period dramas and if you throw some romance in there, I am going to watch it. The Ottoman Lieutenant came onto my radar, and it became a must watch. There is not much press about this film, and never saw…
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