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Review Encore Now playing in the US: Joanna Arnow’s The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed

Commentary Flashback 12 May 2011 Say what you want about the brothers known as Jedward (and people do), at least they are not turkeys

Review Flashback 1983 Bill Forsyth’s Local Hero

Review Flashback 1996 Ringo Lam’s Maximum Risk

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Feature Film Review As Reed Richards, Ben Grimm and Sue and Johnny Storm prepare for an adventure in outer space, Mrs. Storm dubs the young quartet The Fantastic Four

Latest Commentary What do I have to show for the past three decades? Well, on average apparently I write about a hundred film reviews a year

Documentary Film Review The cast and crew did not know their project was Doomed, they tell us in recounting The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four

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

Feature Film Review Young aspiring artist Mickey Hardaway begins sessions with psychiatrist Cameron Harden in hopes of coping with recent setbacks in his life

Review Encore Now in cinemas and streaming in the US: Shane Atkinson’s LaRoy, Texas

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Feature Film Review Mastermind Neil McCauley and his gang of high-end professional thieves feel serious Heat from Lt. Vincent Hanna and his team of LAPD cops

Feature Film Review In the back garden of a mysterious house, the detective investigating Mallory’s disappearance finds a blood-stained bone and a strange typewritten note with words highlighted in colors indiscernible to someone with Protanopia

Alphabetical Index of My Personal Eulogies

Short Film Review A woman as dispassionate as The Stoic Breeze has her solitary routine altered when she encounters someone in distress in the woods

Review Encore 60th anniversary re-release in the UK: Robert Stevenson’s Mary Poppins

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Review Encore 4K restoration re-release in the UK: Martin Scorsese’s After Hours

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

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

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

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

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

Total Number of Feature Films, Documentaries and Shorts Reviewed to Date: 3,003