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Succession, Season 4 and last.
I’m curious if I will be right, that this show can only be resolved with the father dying either at Kendall’s hand or not, with Kendall in charge. At the end of the last season, Kendall had nearly completely broken … Continue reading
D&D. Dungeons and Dragons, by Hasbro.
Well I usually like to credit the authors but this is a board and video game adapted into real motion pictures. This seems to be happening everywhere — or the opposite. Avatar and Star Wars, for example, are now Disney … Continue reading
A Few Mini Reviews
The Quiet Girl. This one actually had me crying at the end. But unfortunately, almost nothing happens. It is a subtle movie — quiet, like its title. A young girl is sent to live with some foster parents because she … Continue reading
A movie and a move
The Forger, by Maggie Peron, based on the memoir by Ciona Schaumhaus. The Forger was also the name of a movie starring Lauren Bacall and Josh Hutcherson, two actors that I could never imagine had ever starred in a film … Continue reading
The Whale by Samuel D. Hunter, based on his play.
A lot has been said about Brendan Fraser’s performance as a 600 pound man trapped in his apartment somewhere in Idaho. I don’t think more needs to be added by me, but after seeing it a second time, I realized … Continue reading
EO, written by Jerzy Skolimowski and Ewa Piaskowska.
I’m writing this review to purge my feelings. I don’t know why I thought a movie about a donkey on a journey was going to end on an upbeat note. Maybe it’s because we’re taught by Disney to expect upbeat … Continue reading
The Inspection, by Elegance Bratton
This movie could work easily as pure fiction, but it is based on the author’s real life experience in deciding to become a marine, given that his choices in life are bleak. In reality, Elegance Bratton has told people that … Continue reading
Bones and All, directed by Luca Guadagnino, screenplay by David Kagjanich, novel by Camille DeAngelis
Back when I still had a writers group, or maybe it was in a class, we were talking about the absolute glut of books and movies about vampires. It began, probably, with Ann Rice, but really Bram Stoker and the … Continue reading
Aftersun by Charlotte Wells
The reviews are splendid. Heart-stopping. Best film of the year. You won’t walk away the same person. Masterful. Stops you in your tracks. Well no, it doesn’t. What it does have is a very delicate sense of mystery. Sophie is … Continue reading
TÁR by Todd Field.
(Spoilers all the way through, including the end.) Many of the people who saw this in the theatre with me groaned at the end, and several came up to me and asked me if I understood what “that was all … Continue reading