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Mr. Holmes

Monday, September 18, 2023

    It’s hard to get past the sterling ability of Ian McKellen to create spectacular life in any character, and the Sherlock Holmes character is fertile ground for McKellen’s […]...

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Thelma & Louise

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

      Louise (Susan Sarandon) and Thelma (Geena Davis) can’t escape from almost every conceivable way of living on the edge. They keep ending up in situations they have […]...

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The Wind and the Lion

Monday, August 28, 2023

    Sean Connery plays Mulay Achmed Mohammed el-Raisuli, Lord of the Rif and Sultan to the Berbers. In real life the man was Mulai Ahmed er Raisuni (Raisuli) (1871-1925), […]...

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The Scarlet Letter

Monday, August 21, 2023

    I watched three films based on The Scarlet Letter, the iconic 1850 story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864). My small sample (there are at least nine movies based on […]...

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The Hustler

Monday, August 14, 2023

    Okay, first things first: the pool table action in The Hustler (1961, not rated, 134 minutes) is rather tame. Most of the shots are obscurely impossible, but successful. […]...

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Old Henry

Monday, August 7, 2023

    The tension builds slowly in Old Henry (2021, not rated, 99 minutes) and you may be tempted to stop waiting to find out what it’s all about. Truth […]...

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Girl with a Pearl Earring

Monday, July 31, 2023

  Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003, rated PG-13, 100 minutes) is historical fiction about Johannes Vermeer’s enigmatic portrait of an unknown young girl, circa 1665. It’s a breathtaking, tantalizing […]...

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Dangerous Liaisons

Monday, July 24, 2023

    Dangerous Liaisons (1988, rated R, 119 minutes) is not a garden of delight.  If you aspire to a working understanding of good and evil, you could do worse […]...

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Atonement

Monday, July 10, 2023

  Atonement is a story of lives of irredeemable sadness. Ian McEwan wrote the book that is faithfully portrayed in this 2007 film (rated R, 123 minutes) it got seven […]...

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The Shawshank Redemption

Monday, July 3, 2023

  This irrepressible, inscrutable movie is about bad people who are sort of really good people, and sort of good people who refuse to let really bad things become their […]...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Monday, June 26, 2023

  Among more than 30 film adaptions of Oscar Wilde’s 1891 novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a 1945 release (not rated, 110 minutes) starring Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray is […]...

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The Iceman Cometh

Monday, June 12, 2023

  Stamina is one thing you need to load up on so you can watch The Iceman Cometh (1973, rated PG, 239 minutes), based on Eugene O’Neill’s impressive 1939 play. […]...

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