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Oscar Watch – Best Live Action Short

Oscar Watch – Best Live Action Short

Each year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizes the best of filmmaking with the Academy Awards, aka the Oscars. Among the films honored each year are three categories of short films. These are films that few people get to see (unless you go to...

The Alienist – CSI 1896

The Alienist – CSI 1896

?I must follow this wherever it goes, even if it leads me to the darkest pit of hell.? We?re used to police procedural TV shows that include forensic science (including fingerprints and autopsies) and psychological profiling. But there was a time when such things were...

Hostiles – Journey Between Life and Death

Hostiles – Journey Between Life and Death

?When we lay our heads down out here, we?re all prisoners.? In Scott Cooper?s new western Hostiles, the cowboy-and-Indian genre is used to consider the power that prejudices hold over us. But it also gives a glimpse of the possibility of reconciliation that can...

Darrel’s Dozen 2017 – One Guy’s Faves

Darrel’s Dozen 2017 – One Guy’s Faves

It?s time to come up with my favorite films of 2017. As usual, I expect I?ll name things you?ve never heard of (except from my reviews), and unless you live in a town with a good art house may never have been able to see. (One you would have needed to see at a...

The Post – Releasing the Truth

The Post – Releasing the Truth

?In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the...

M*A*S*H – Showing the Folly of the Times

M*A*S*H – Showing the Folly of the Times

?This isn?t a hospital; it?s an insane asylum!? I was in college, of prime draft age, when M*A*S*H hit the theaters in 1970. That probably says a lot about what I found so appealing about that film when I first saw it. It also explains why when it played at AFI Fest...

Call Me by Your Name – Moving Past Innocence

?To make yourself feel nothing so you don?t feel anything. What a waste.? Coming-of-age stories are often about discovery as characters emerge from childhood. They often harken back to the story of Eden, as Adam and Eve eat forbidden fruit and their eyes are opened to...