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Month: July 2023

Sympathy for the Devil movie review: schtick the landing

Sun, Jul 30, 2023
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Rote cat-and-mouse thriller spins its wheels getting somewhere obvious, just so wild-eyed Nic Cage can cartoonishly Rage again. Look, the actor has found his schtick, and he’s sticking with it, okay?

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Mavka: The Forest Song movie review: the dark of the woods comes too late

Fri, Jul 28, 2023
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Traditional folk music and beautifully animated mythic motifs may be rightfully validating for homegrown Ukrainian audiences, but there’s little else beyond that novelty to capture others’ imagination.

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daily stream: a portrait of the incomparable Sinéad O’Connor

Thu, Jul 27, 2023
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The 2022 documentary Nothing Compares is on Showtime in the US, Prime in the UK.

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behind the scenes: I am unmoored and paralyzed by polycrisis

Tue, Jul 25, 2023
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tl;dr: Finally able to step back from my year of hell and take a deep breath, all I see is pandemic denial, the world on fire, and fascists getting bolder and bolder. I feel so hopeless, and so helpless.

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daily stream: Gerard Butler goes a’haunting

Sat, Jul 15, 2023
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2007’s P.S. I Love You is on iPlayer in the UK for a few more weeks; on Prime and Apple TV in the US.

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daily stream: snappy cinematic junk food to distract from terrible reality

Tue, Jul 11, 2023
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2001’s Ocean’s Eleven leaves UK Prime soon; on Prime and Apple TV in the US.

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daily stream: the global-warming truth gets more inconvenient by the day

Mon, Jul 10, 2023
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2006’s An Inconvenient Truth is on Kanopy in the US, Paramount+ in the UK.

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loaded question: what are the best (and worse) ways characters have unexpectedly reappeared in a story?

Mon, Jul 10, 2023
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I have chosen the absolute nonsense of “Somehow, Palpatine returned,” which is so ridiculous that poor Oscar Isaac seems unable to muster enough enthusiasm to even pretend it makes sense…

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