curated cinema: a quarter of a century later, a movie that we can now see as a drama about climate-change
2000’s The Perfect Storm is on Paramount+ in the US, Prime in the UK (and other services, too).
Twisters movie review: no winds of change blowing here
Hooray for Glen Powell’s star rising, but this absurdly coy movie — is it a sequel? a remake? — is a cowardly, reckless missed opportunity: it’s deeply baffling that it omits any hint of global warming.
curated cinema: a doc to help understand the nightmare of the AT&T data breach
2016 documentary A Good American is on Kanopy in the US, Prime in the UK.
Kinds of Kindness movie review: twilight zones of contention
A mad monstrosity of a movie: absurdist, enigmatic, perverse. Lanthimos’s typical grotesque humor is on full display. Yay for a film that actually attempts to capture how insane the world is today?
announcing the Alliance of Women Film Journalists’ Win With Women Movie Giveaway
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curated cinema: convicted felon and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump remains a massive danger to the US and the entire world
2020 documentary #Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump is streaming on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic, and also on library-streamer Kanopy in the US.
Pitch People documentary review: consumerist sideshow
The goofy-90s-cheese factor is high in this look at home-shopping TV hucksters, but any nostalgia is small and cheap. The chipper vibe is distasteful in a way it perhaps wasn’t in the booming 1990s.
curated cinema: why Scarlett Johansson is considered (by some) an ideal AI voice
2013’s Her is on Max in the US, Prime in the UK.
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