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Oscars 2018: Mini-Reviews
For those considering in the Oscar Noms, here are my mini-reviews (WITH SPOILERS) for the Best Picture category: Call Me by Your Name This year’s Blame It On Rio! is a tragedy about a 17-year old...
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What to Watch: Mission Impossible, WWII edition
We all love Mission Impossible movies — action thrillers about a single man or team forced into an absurd struggle against overwhelming odds. But this time it’s World War II. History is in the...
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What to Watch: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Don’t be afraid of subtitles. Be brave, and explore the absurd creativity of French director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He is the proud creator of several bizarre, whimsical, romantic, and fun films, some...
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What to Watch: Psycho Month
For October FAN (Film Appreciation Nights), we’re doing a small list of movies about people who belong in rubber rooms. The psychos and the misfits, the dangerous and the charming. Fritz Lang’s M The...
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What to Watch: Billy Wilder’s Greatest Films
If you had only 4 movies to make someone a Billy Wilder fan, what would you choose? For Film Appreciation Night (FAN) at Epiphany Space, I gave myself that challenge. After all, if we appreciated his...
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What to Watch: Thriller Comedy
Thriller/Comedy is a subgenre no one talks about but everyone wants. You can’t filter movies on Netflix and Box Office Mojo for it, but it certainly exists. As the resident script analyst for Epiphany...
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What to Watch: Romantic Anime
I want to start the year in a romantic mood, to inspire you to higher levels of creativity and originality, and we can’t get there by rewatching the latest big star-driven, derivative superhero...
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Best Movies 2019
I used to write up my own Oscar list every year, and added some screenwriting notes to challenge writers… Until I realized that people only wanted to know if they should see the movie or not. So I...
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Mr. Jones
This is NOT the Counting Crows song about guys dreaming of black-haired flamenco dancers in Amsterdam, nor is it that 1993 Richard Gere star-vehicle, and we’re certainly not in Indiana Jones...
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Terror on the Prairie
As most Hollywood fans know, when Disney #cancelled Gina Carano over an innocuous (and true) tweet, The Daily Wire hired her to make movies together. DW had a string of releases already, but Gina is...
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