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Abraham Lincoln

Miss Juneteenth movie review: ordinary lives drawn with extraordinary grace

Wed, Jun 17, 2020
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A beautiful cinematic experience, delicately subtle and bursting with a gorgeous sense of place and character. There is wonderful intimate suspense in every moment of Nicole Beharie’s performance.

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Suffragette movie review: then they fight you (LFF 2015)

Wed, Oct 07, 2015
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The first feature film ever about the women who fought for their right to vote is glorious. It is angry and passionate and defiant. It is essential.

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the yin/yang of Han Solo and Mal Reynolds (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Dec 07, 2012
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Nov 17-23 2012

Sun, Nov 25, 2012
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Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site…

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Honey Boo Boo in trash (and other adventures in social networking)

Sun, Nov 18, 2012
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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question of the day: What is your favorite biopic?

Tue, Sep 18, 2012
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The first one that springs to mind for me is Out of Africa, because it’s a gorgeous movie, and because it’s about a woman, which so few biopics are.

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Lincoln (trailer)

Mon, Sep 17, 2012
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Wait, where are the vampires?

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter movie review: met on a great battlefield

Tue, Jun 19, 2012
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Timur Bekmambetov treats his pile-on of pulpy historical pseudo revisionism sincerely, but cheerfully so: its subversively gentle sense of humor is never so earnest that it stumbles over into cheese.

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (two trailers)

Wed, Feb 15, 2012
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This looks more silly than anything else. I didn’t know that parkour was a thing in the 19th century.

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question of the day: What great historical figures would you like to see in a story set in the present day?

Fri, Dec 02, 2011
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Prompted by my initial misunderstanding as to why Daniel Day-Lewis was wearing jeans and a sweater to play Abraham Lincoln…

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