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Living benefits from connections

With grace and subtlety, actor Bill Nighy takes steps to expand living. In their movie Living, Nighy and director Oliver Hermanus spring...

Women Talking explores MeToo issues

The title subjects of Women Talking explore extreme MeToo issues in a sensitive film from director Sarah Polley. Working from Miriam...

Edgar Allan Poe, Detective

Since most literary experts credit Edgar Allan Poe with creating the fictional detective genre, it makes sense to put him in his own...

Armchair travel to Argentina

In preparing for my recent trip to Costa Rica, I listened to the Spanish language by armchair traveling further south to Argentina in two...

Whale examines heavy issues

The Whale takes its title from the looks of a character and a book he loves. The story’s teacher, Charlie gets the reference because he...

Jackasses highlight top 2022 movies

Jackasses come in two forms: donkeys and people. Three of 2022’s top rated films show people as the real asses, with donkeys taking the...

Skydiver Cooper's fame keeps rising

The holiday season at Reno’s airport once included a prank call: “Paging D.B. Cooper.” While cell phone communications and occasional...

Wakanda's forever includes a sequel

Since Marvel Universe movies operate with a formula, I developed a review template that applies for features like (insert name here):...

Del Toro grows a new Pinocchio

Like him or not, Pinocchio and his sprouting nose flourish like weeds in the movie industry, where yet a second version this year alone...

Dustin and Sissy help Sam and Kate

Despite using the names Sam and Kate as a title, the movie’s two younger characters step aside for the project’s real appeal, the teaming...

Viewing Vienna on screen

Around the World in 80 Movies: Before Sunrise in Vienna It should come as no surprise when a city that groomed great minds generates...

Vienna viewed on screen

https://youtu.be/r6Xv-iMVU1A Going around the world in eighty movies, my visit to Vienna meant a too-short, one-day stay that required...

Styles style includes cops

Pop phenomenon Harry Styles’ style includes gender fluidity, perfectly suited to his new movie My Policeman. Styles plays Tom, a 1950s...

Tanya rises high

Musicians repeatedly provide massive movie fodder and country singer Tanya Tucker enters the field with a documentary that offers a...

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