Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Father and Daughter Journey Toward Reconciliation (and Rehab) in Bleeding Love

Family drama is rarely depicted on screen with quite such bite as Bleeding Love, which casts real-life father and daughter Ewan McGregor and Clara McGregor playing an estranged father and […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Features Stunning Animation, Plenty of Humanity and Just a Bit of Terror

If you had told me earlier this year that I would see a film version of Pinocchio that featured a cameo by Mussolini, I probably would have guessed that filmmaker […]

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Film & TV, Review

Review: The Duke Chronicles the True, Very British Story of Art Thievery as Civil Protest

Jim Broadbent in The Duke

Back in the 1990s, I had a soft spot for British films in which the townspeople all rallied around some cause and simply got things done though sheer will power […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Birds of Prey Wants You To Think It’s Edgier Than It Is

Birds of Prey

This is a film that wants so desperately for us to believe it’s edgy and twisted that it forgets to actually be edgy and twisted. This is not to say […]

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Review: Decades Later, Doctor Sleep—a Sequel to The Shining—Delivers a Tense Psychic Thriller

Doctor Sleep

A huge portion of this film cannot and should not be discussed in any review, but I’m guessing it will be, and in large quantities. I’m also guessing that different […]

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Review: Christopher Robin May Not Be Essential Viewing, But There’s a Heart To It

Christopher Robin

Unlike last year’s Goodbye Christopher Robin, which was an account of the circumstances that led to A.A. Milne creating the Winnie-the-Pooh character, this week’s Christopher Robin is a fictional story […]

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Film Review: T2 Trainspotting, A Curious and Desperate Journey

I’d certainly be within my rights to get long winded about the way director Danny Boyle uses clips from the original, 20-year-old Trainspotting to provide contrast between the drugged-out characters […]

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