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Medicine Man

Monday, November 4, 2024

    Medicine Man (1992, rated PG-13, 106 minutes) is a completely predictable story about a man and a woman chasing each other as they close in on finding a […]...

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Lord of the Flies

Monday, October 21, 2024

    Maybe you’ve never heard of this movie (or the 1954 book by William Golding). Try the book first. Its sustained drama shames the movie. Half of the movie […]...

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Charlotte Gray

Monday, October 7, 2024

    Charlotte Gray (2001, rated PG-13, 121 minutes) is a pedestrian World War II tale based on Sabastian Faulks’ eponymous novel that completes his war trilogy (see The Girl […]...

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To Serve Them All My Days

Monday, September 23, 2024

    There is an utterly familiar plot line in To Serve Them All My Days (TV mini series, 1980-1981, 11 hours, 13 minutes): a Welsh coal miner’s son survives […]...

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The Words

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

    The Words (2012, rated PG, 102 minutes) is vigorous drama (but no guns, no car chase!) with some heart throbs and some lachrymose moments. There are two morals […]...

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The Wizard of Oz

Monday, August 26, 2024

    Maybe you haven’t watched The Wizard of Oz in a while. It’s not just for kids. There are grown-up songs, introduced by Over the Rainbow, and probably you […]...

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The Snow Goose

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

    This justly famous short story by Paul Gallico is surprisingly simple in its construction and densely emotional in its impact. There are familiar plot elements: ugly old man […]...

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The Dirty Dozen

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

    The plot isn’t complicated. It’s World War II, the American brass want to wipe out a French chateau filled with high-ranking German officers, and Major Reisman (Lee Marvin) […]...

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The Best Offer

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

    The Best Offer (2013, rated R, 131 minutes) knocks you down with a surprise ending worthy of the name. I don’t indulge in spoiler alerts. Watch the movie […]...

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Songcatcher

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

    If you think you know what “hillbilly” means, watch Songcatcher and then think again. Songcatcher (2000, rated PG-13, 109 minutes) is, nominally, a story about illiterate hillbillies and […]...

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