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Scenes from Last Night’s Love Shack Party
Thanks to everyone who came to Love Shack So7 last night and made our annual Music Awards compilation CD release party such a rousing...
We Bought a Zoo: Animal House
There are two ways to evaluate Cameron Crowe’s family-friendly new film We Bought a Zoo. One is by the standards of other PG-rated Hollywood...
Film Shorts
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Burlesque (PG-13) Christina Aguilera makes her film debut as a dancer who comes to Los Angeles and finds her way into a burlesque club...
Little Woods: Smuggler’s Blues
A black woman walks down the street and watches a car with a law enforcement insignia pass by her in the other direction. She...
Garden of Eden: Bourne Identity
Here’s a movie with a tortured history. Garden of Eden was a manuscript that Ernest Hemingway worked on from 1946 until his 1961 death....
Film Shorts
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Side Effects (R) Steven Soderbergh’s clever thriller stars Rooney Mara as a suicidal woman whose struggles with depression overwhelm her when her husband (Channing...
The Best Movie Moments of 2015
I saw more than 300 new movies in 2015. That’s well ahead of my usual quota for a 12-month period, by something like 10...
Persian Version: She’s So Unusual
A few years ago, I reviewed The Big Sick and pondered the possibility of Muslim filmmakers gaining an identity in Western cinema like other...
Guardians of the Galaxy : Raccaccoonie
The first Guardians of the Galaxy movie had that one scene where a drunken Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) starts a bar brawl while wailing about...
R.I.P., Chadwick Boseman
Back in April, when everything was locked down, a bunch of my social media friends posted various “2020 sucks” memes on their feeds. I...
