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"A movie review is a reflection of your life." -Michael Phillips What's my spin? I'm often looking at film from an ethical (not moralistic) stance. What does a film communicate about right and wrong especially in relationships?

Monday, June 30, 2014

Noriko's Dinner Table

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This is not the best made film. It feels like a pulp film, inexpensively put together with questionable acting skills. The cinematograph...

Friday, May 16, 2014

Judy Garland's A Star is Born

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This musical has more in common with the musicals of the 60s like Camelot, Funny Girl and Fiddler on the Roof, which all begin with joy ...

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Love and Dogs: Amores Perros

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Three intense stories about love and dogs. A young man in love (lust?) with his brothers wife, uses his brother's dog in fights to r...

Sunday, April 27, 2014

The Reality of Shame (2011)

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The necessity of hiding your real self from people around you. No one can get close to you, you must fear them. Anger becaus...

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Extreme Alice (1988)

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The director, in considering adapting Carrol's bizarre work, decided it was not odd enough, so another layer of truly horrible image...

Friday, April 11, 2014

The Uniqueness of On the Waterfront

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A boxing movie that never has a scene in the ring. A gangster movie without a drive by, and the mob boss doesn...

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Cagney Is Red Hot in White Heat (1949)

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The cops are all procedural and techy and full of schemes, while the gangsters are Homeric, not only in ideas but in hubris and angst. B...

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