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Feature Film Review Heartsick that Irish author Paul Kennedy is marrying her friend Emma instead of her, editor Maddie Kelly inadvertently alters all their destinies by making an Irish Wish to Saint Brigid

Short Film Review Apart from some time spent in a motel, Caleb & Sarah are living out of their car

Commentary Flashback 31 March 2011 In ages past, did ghost stories around the campfire purge people’s fears anywhere as effectively as a good scary movie does today?

Review Flashback 1982 Sydney Pollack’s Tootsie


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Review Flashback 1996 John Greyson’s Lilies

Feature Film Review For her birthday Alice’s friends Isabelle and Pénélope arrange for a luxurious stay at Deauville’s Hôtel Normandy as well as an additional provocative surprise

Latest Commentary Meryl Streep was her Oscar-nominated son-in-law Mark Ronson’s plus-one at the Grammys, but ironically he apparently couldn’t get her into the Oscars


My Personal Ranking of
Films Released in the Year 2023
(that I have seen and reviewed so far)


Oscar Predictions Are these awards getting more predictable or am I? Let’s tally up my predictions and preferences for the 2024 Academy Award winners (for movies released in 2023)

Feature Film Review At a party in 1946, the actor Felicia Montealegre meets the Maestro and composer Leonard Berstein, sparking a relationship that would last until her death 32 years later


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Feature Film Review On the Dune planet Arrakis, Paul Atreides and his mother Jessica join the the native Fremen people, and Paul takes Two Fremen names, Usul and Muad’Dib

Feature Film Review On an international journey of discovery, Bella Baxter spies the plight of impoverished Poor Things in Alexandra and feels compelled to try helping them


Alphabetical Index of My Personal Eulogies


Feature Film Review Professor and novelist Thelonius ‘Monk’ Ellison decries the state of American Fiction, especially when it comes to ghetto fiction

Review Encore 21st anniversary re-release in the UK: Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund’s City of God


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Short Film Review Addicted and in serious debt to a dangerous dealer, Justin has run out of resources and will grasp at any chance for some Ready Cash

Review Encore 30th anniversary re-release in the UK: Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire

Review Encore Re-release in the UK: Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables

Feature Film Review Hotel employee and aspiring actor Lance has appeared in movies as an extra, but he means to get Speaking Parts any way he can

Short Film Review Two strangers of different generations have an arranged meeting, but does one or the other of them want To Kill the Mother, perhaps at least figuratively?

Feature Film Review As 12-year-olds Chuck & Buck were extremely close friends, and a decade and a half later they both find Buck is incapable of moving on

Feature Film Review Through apparently divine intervention, screenwriter Adam comes to understand we are all disconnected, all separate and All of Us Strangers

Feature Film Review After someone in their San Diego condominium dies suddenly, Nick and Lana entertain themselves with speculation about Murder and Cocktails with the neighbors


Total Number of Feature Films, Documentaries and Shorts Reviewed to Date: 2,99y